Teaching approaches
From OER in Education
You can view an Introduction to our resources, as well as the range of 'teaching approaches' shown below. The key teaching approaches also appear in our ORBIT course book. Here they are presented alongside some shorter descriptions, in a browsable format through which you can move between different ideas - teaching approaches, tools, professional development and classroom resources - as you go.
- Active learning
- Applying and consolidating
- Argumentation
- Assessment
- Classroom management
- Collaboration
- Curriculum development
- Curriculum planning
- Dialogue
- Differentiation
- Discussion
- Drama
- Exploring and noticing structure
- Games
- Group talk
- Group work
- Higher order
- Homework
- Inclusion
- Inquiry
- Introduction
- Investigation
- Language
- Learning objectives
- Mathematical thinking
- Modelling
- Narrative
- Open ended
- Planning
- Planning for interactive pedagogy
- Planning for professional development
- Posing questions and making conjectures
- Questioning
- Reasoning
- Reasoning, justifying, convincing and proof
- Scientific method
- Sharing practice
- The ORBIT Resources
- Thinking strategically
- Visualisation
- Visualising and explaining
- Whole class
- Working systematically
Some of the texts for the teaching approaches draw from various materials (e.g. under an OGL licence), which are available here.