5 Non-conventional Ways Of Teaching High School Students

Have your students become bored in the class? Have they lost all their enthusiasm in books and learning? Are you not able to get their attention at all? Then, it’s time that you revamp your teaching methods. Let go and let the students do something they want to do. While learning, these teaching methods can also inculcate some important life and job skills in your students.

Follow these 5 non-conventional ways of teaching in your classroom and see the difference in your students’ learning process:

Quiz Competitions

• Prerequisites – Prepare questions and back-up questions, in advance, from what you have taught to your students so far.


• In the Class – Divide your class students into teams and conduct the quiz. Give a time limit to answer each question. 


• Benefits – This method can promote team work, decision making skills and time management skills to your students.

Class Exhibitions

Prerequisites – Allot topics for students to work on and exhibit. Help them throughout the process and teach them about their work during the process. 

In the Class – Let the students exhibit their work and explain. Also, ask them some simple questions about their work to further their knowledge in the subject. 

Benefits – This method can promote creativity and the ability to explain from what they have learned.

PPT Presentations

• Prerequisites– Train the students on the Power Point Presentation tool and allot subject topics.







• In the Class– Let the students display and explain their presentations. Ask simple questions to the students at the end of the presentation. You can also use different tools like this to teach the students.


• Benefits– This method can help students to bring out their designing skills and creativity.

Songs and Stories

Prerequisites– Provide topics for students to write a song or create a story using the subject matter. 

In the Class – Ask the students to sing the songs and tell the stories. You can encourage the students to enact their stories like dramas.

Benefits – This method can create interest in the subject. It can enhance creativity and enthusiasm about the subject.

Debates

• Prerequisites – Provide a topic for the whole class to debate. Let the students choose their side in the debate.


• In the Class – Encourage the students to speak out loud and argue for their views. Guide the students whenever necessary by asking questions to them. Provide a conclusion for the debate.


• Benefits – This method can enhance oratorical skills among students and let them stand for their view.

While preparing to conduct theses activities in your class, make sure to let the students know about the day of the activity, in advance, for them to prepare well. At the end of each and every activity, congratulate your students for their active participation. Encourage them to perform either solo or in groups. Focus on the theme of learning in all of the activities. All the best and have fun!

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Teaching Methods That Facilitate Learning

Learning is a continuous process. A person can be a learner throughout his life. But, teaching is a quality that only some of us possess. A good teaching ensures learning. History has seen some of the great teachers in various departments across the world. This includes the renowned teacher-student hierarchy, Socrates – Plato – Aristotle – Alexander.

Historically, teachers have practiced various teaching techniques that are used even today in our classrooms. These techniques concentrate on the efficiency of a student’s learning capacity. During various periods in the history, the teaching methods have gone under constant change. Nowadays, gadgets have occupied significant place in conveying the subject material. But, teaching and learning is always the same. Even through a gadget, only a teacher teaches a student which will never change.

In this article, we shall look into some of the core teaching methodologies that can be used to help students learn.

Teaching by asking questions

This method triggers the students’ nature of curiosity to make them involve in the learning process. By questioning students and encouraging them to question, “Why?” and “How?” the teacher can inculcate and enhance the curiosity inside the students’ mind.

Curiosity can be defined as a strong motivating factor for learning. It is the first and foremost reason for human beings to start searching and researching about things around them. It is also the reason, children learn quickly.

A teacher should concentrate to bring out this quality in a student. If this can be perfectly achieved, the rest of the learning process can happen by itself.

Teaching by providing experience

This kind of teaching can be relevant to practical experiments where experience plays a major role. When the students do the experiments directly using their hands, learning becomes inevitable. More practice leads to more experience. But, it is very important to ensure that students progress during every attempt.

Teaching by facilitating observation

Students learn through observation. This technique can be used by a teacher to teach students using models. This observing technique is mostly used in science education. Students are asked to observe a chemical process or a specimen in biology or a model describing a mathematical concept.

Teaching by facilitating association

Using this method, concepts can be taught to students by associating it with their effect. A scientific concept can be efficiently taught by teaching its effect and applications. Thus, the student can learn by associating the theory with its practical application.

This method of teaching is very effective to help students remember the subject and concepts they learn in the classroom. This method can also help them to apply the theoretical concepts into real life situations. 

While enhancing the students’ learning capability, it is also important for a teacher to know about the factors that affect students’ learning process. This effort can eliminate major obstacles and can naturally enhance the students’ learning potential.

We shall discuss about this in the next article.

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