The best answer to the question, "What is the most

effective method of teaching?" is that it depends on the goal,

the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is,

"students teaching other students."

Wilbert J. McKeachieAuthor of Teaching tips: Strategies, research and theory for

for college and university teachers, Houghton-Mifflin (1998).

the best method of teaching

the cone of learning

active learning

active learning means that instead of simply receiving information verbally and visually, students are receiving and participating and doing. In simple terms:

engaging students in doing something besides listening to a lecture and taking notes to help them learn and apply course material. Students may be involved in talking and listening to one another, or writing, reading and reflecting individually.

collaborative learning

An ideal process for the classroom would be collaborative learning, which is:

a subset of active learning activities that engage students in interacting with one another while learning and applying the course material. Usually it involves breaking the class into small groups ( 2-4 students) who are posed a question, often of a conceptual nature, and allowing each group to discuss a possible answer for a period of time. They then present their answers.

active collaborative learning

In addition to the obvious advantages of information retention

many research studies show that there will be improvements in:

student-faculty interaction, student-student interaction, academic achievement (i.e., grades), communication skills, higher-level thinking skills, teamwork, attitude towards the subject and motivation to learn.

putting into practice

active learning

active learning:

receiving and participating and DOING.

One possible way of promoting active learning is:

the use of ICT in education.

collaborative learning

collaborative learning:

engage students in INTERACTING with one another

One possible way of doing this:

Global Teenager Project

(www.iicd.org/globalteenager)

active collaborative learning

learning circle:

“(…) clusters of 8-12 classes from different schools link up via email to form 'virtual Learning Circles, the main activity of the Global Teenager Project.

They discuss a theme of their choice for the next 10 weeks and the outcomes of their discussions are

posted real-time on the Virtual Campus.”

(www.iicd.org/globalteenager)

tips

When preparing my lesson I followed this tip:

“You could also create a simple web page with clickable links to the websites the students are to visit to complete their tasks (…) It is easier to follow the link and then go back to the “links” page than type in Internet addresses. Thus students will know exactly what they are supposed to do and focus on websites that are relevant to the task they have been set.”

(internet source)

the lesson

http://www.amoba.ro/gtpora/index.html