There are a variety of strategies that teachers can use to improve student learning. What you have to do as a teacher is analyse the students you are teaching and devise a strategy in order to deliver your session. These are some of the strategies that could be used for my employability sessions.
Critical Thinking - Critical thinking is a collection of mental activities.
Discussion Strategies - Engaging students in discussion.
Role Play – To develop skills and link theory to practice.
1.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of approaches to learning and teaching in own specialist area in meeting needs of learners
Critical thinking includes the ability to intuit, clarify, …show more content…
Literacy could be used when the session is about covering letters and also CVs. Numeracy could be added when the session involves group work, and ICT will involve the creation of either a CV or covering letter.
3.1 Explain how to engage and motivate learners in an inclusive learning environment
As a teacher you need to be aware of what motivates each learner this will help you plan your lessons in addition with understanding the best way for your learners to learn from your sessions that you may deliver. As a teacher you can create an inclusive and motivated learning environment by:
Being aware of their attention span limits
Use various leaning styles i.e. visual, kinetics, audio
On-going feed back
Use games
These are just some things that may help to engage and motivate the learners. According to Maslow (1987) there are 5 needs that represent different levels of learning amongst students. Maslows 1987 Hierarchy of