This presentation provides initial knowledge on Strategies, techniques, and methods for preservice teachers or anyone seeking such preliminary knowledge on instructional approaches. Activities guide the learners to gain deep learning abilities.

1. Methods, Strategies &
Techniques
ELT Methodology
Competency 1.0
Ms. Malka Wickramasinghe
Mahaweli National College of Education
Polgolla

2. Teaching approach:
A “particular way of thinking”.
• A teaching approach is a set of beliefs and assumptions about language
teaching and language learning.
• Our teaching method, teaching techniques, and teaching strategies will
depend on the teaching approach we take.
• If an approach is a “way of thinking” or “personal philosophy”, our
teaching approach is very likely to change according to our experiences.
• This means that a teaching approach is dynamic. Therefore, it shows our
growth as teachers, and the fact that we are able to change or adapt to
the situations that we face.

3. Teaching method:
A teaching method is a systematic plan for the presentation of
language, which is based in the approach that we have chosen.
A teaching method´s design includes objectives, syllabus, activities,
teachers´ roles, students´ roles, and materials.
A teaching method will have his implementation phase in the
classroom.
Basically, a teaching method is a procedure or way of
materializing a teaching approach through a systematic plan.

4. Teaching technique:
• Teaching techniques refer to any strategy or trick that teachers
use in order to accomplish an immediate objective.
• Therefore, teaching techniques are the different teaching
practices that we observe in the classroom.
• They involve skills and specific classroom activities.
For example, “drills” and “group problem solving”. The
techniques
that we use will depend on our teaching method and approach.

5. Teaching strategy:
• A strategy is a plan intended to achieve a
purpose; it is more general than a technique.
• A teaching strategy is aimed to help learning
take place. It can involve the different ways of
organizing the classroom and planning a lesson.

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Instructional
Strategies
Activity:
Analyze the level of
teacher centred and
student centred
nature of each
instructional strategy.

7. What is involved in teaching
• Planning a unit or lesson involves a number of instructional
decisions.
• The teacher must identify the following:
• the content and processes to be addressed,
• the strengths
• needs
• interests of students
• the Common Essential Learnings that could be
incorporated
• the most effective instructional approaches.
It is decision making regarding:

8. Activity ll : Describe the instructional strategies and teaching techniques
involved in the methods given below.
Lecture Method
Lecture discussion method
Demonstration Method
Gamification
Assignments
Field Trips
Experimentation
Exhibitions
Group Method
Projects

9. Activity- Analyze the instructional strategies involved in the following teaching
techniques

10. Thank you
Ms.I.B.K.M.N.Wickramasinghe 2022
MNCoE