This document discusses interactive teaching strategies to engage learners of all styles. It identifies the main learning styles as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Interactive teaching involves both the facilitator and learners, with questions and hands-on activities to stimulate discussion. Group work is highlighted as an effective strategy, as learners retain more when they discuss and apply the material. A variety of interactive techniques should be used to maintain interest, assess understanding, and make the session participatory.

1. Interactive Teaching
Strategies
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2. Objectives:
- To identify the different learning styles
- To explore how interactive teaching
strategies support all learners
- To share practical ideas for whole class
teaching

3. Learning Styles
• Visual Learners - remember
images, shapes and colours
• Auditory Learners -
remember voices, sounds
and music
• Kinaesthetic - remember by
doing, moving and touching

4. I Remember...
• 5% of what I hear
• 10% of what I read
• 20% of what I hear and read
• 30% of what I am shown
• 50% of what I discuss
• 75% of what I do
• 90% of what I teach others

6. Interactive Teaching
• Involves facilitator and learners
• Encourage and expect
learners to participate
• Use questions to stimulate
discussion, emphasizing the
value of answers
• Give participants hands-on
experience
• Use teaching aids to gain and
retain attention

7. Where to Start…
• Start with clear learning objectives/outcomes
– Helps you plan session and helps participants by
providing clear view of the session’s direction
• Follow an outline and provide copies to
participants
– Periodically refer to the learning outcomes during the
session to remind everyone where you are and
prevent people from getting lost

8. Increase Participation
Research shows people will:
– Listen for only 15-20 minutes without a
break
– Learn more when given an opportunity
to process what they are learning
– Retain more if they review or use the
information immediately after learning it

9. Lecturing. . . .
• Lecture is the duct-tape of the
teaching world
• Lecturing delivers “concepts”
• It delivers a lot of information
in a short amount of time
• Conveys information that is
difficult to present in another
way

10. Avoid Over Use Because:
• In a lecture your
learners are passive
• Doesn’t guarantee
understanding, no
feedback from learners
• Easily bores the
audience unless well
prepared

11. Points to Keep in Mind
• Lowest retention value of all
teaching techniques
• Make more interactive by
involving the group by frequently
stopping and asking questions
• Strive for a “30% / 70% split
– 30% lecture/ 70% active discussion

12. Why use facilitation rather than
lecture in a training session?
• Participants like to be actively
involved
• Participants want to share
knowledge and ideas
• You don’t have to be an
expert and answer all
questions, because learners
can address questions as
well
• Keeps group’s attentive and
involved

13. Working in Groups
• Work groups are the
workhorse of
interactive teaching
• Work groups should
be standard in every
training program!

14. Using Work Groups
• Stimulates individual
input
• Learners obtain
feedback from multiple
perspectives
• Offers opportunity for
peer instruction
• Allows you to evaluate
their learning

15. How to Utilize Work Groups
1. Explain the 1. Monitor progress
procedure
2. Act as a
2. Form groups timekeeper &
3. Describe task answer questions
4. Specify a time limit 3. Have groups report
5. Ask for scribes to entire group
6. Recommend a 4. Process the
process information

16. When to Use Group Work
• Warm ups
• Practice Session
• Review
• Break Up Lectures
• Complete assignments

17. Incorporating Interactivity
• As you select activities, consider the learners’ wants and
needs, number of participants, size and layout of the room
• Ask yourself
– “What am I trying to teach these people?”
– “Do I want them to share ideas and learn from each other?”
– “Do I want them to internalize something on their own?”
– “Do I want to test their knowledge?”
• Plan a variety of activities into your session to help
participants stay interested

18. Interactive Techniques
These techniques have multiple benefits:
- the instructor can easily and quickly
assess if students have really mastered
the material (and plan to dedicate more
time to it, if necessary), and the process of
measuring student understanding in
many cases is also practice for the
material

19. Interactive Techniques
- Students are revived from their passivity
of merely listening to a lecture and
instead become attentive and engaged,
two prerequisites for effective learning.
- These techniques are often perceived as
“fun”, yet they are frequently more
effective than lectures at enabling
student learning.

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21. Instructional Issues
Use of Technology
- Slide Presentation
- Film Viewing
- The Internet

22. Summary
• Telling is not teaching, nor is listening learning.
• You must engage participants in learning
activities that lead to a higher level of
understanding and result in the participant's
ability to apply what he learned on the job.
• Interactive teaching is a two-way process of
active participant engagement with each other,
the facilitator, and the content.

23. Summary
• Keep in mind, however, that interactivity is a
means to a greater end – participant learning.
The most effective learning involves leading
participants to a point of reflection on content
– What does this mean to me?
– How can I use this?
– Is this better than what I'm doing now?
– This reflection is the goal of interactivity.

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