OER4Schools/Principles of interactive teaching

Principles of interactive teaching:

• recognising children as individuals actively engaged in interacting with the world, rather than passive recipients of knowledge
• assessing learning needs and tailoring teaching to the child’s current level of knowledge and understanding (“scaffolding” or “child-centred” approach)
• “multimodal” interaction and expression – using different modes of presenting material and expressing ideas (drawing, video, audio as well as conventional texts) to engage learners
• higher-order thinking – encouraging skills like analysis, synthesis, evaluation, sorting and categorising
• improvable ideas – providing an environment where ideas can be critiqued and refined
• diversity of ideas – exploring ideas and related/contrasting ideas, encouraging different ideas
• building directly on others’ ideas to create joint knowledge products
• democracy in knowledge building – everybody participates and is a legitimate contributor to knowledge
• learner agency and peer support – encouraging students to take responsibility for their own and one another’s learning