OER4Schools/Principles of interactive teaching

Resource details
Title	Principles of interactive teaching
Topic	[[Topics/OER4Schools|OER4Schools]],  [[Topics/Teacher Education Resources for Sub-Saharan Africa|Teacher Education Resources for Sub-Saharan Africa]]
Teaching approach	[[Teaching Approaches/|]]
Subject	[[Resources/Teacher Education|Teacher Education]]
Age of students / grade	[[Resources/|]]
Acknowledgement	This resource is part of the OER4Schools programme.

The principles of interactive teaching include

• 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, and
• learner agency and peer support – encouraging students to take responsibility for their own and one another’s learning.