My lesson plan was based on Year 11 and 12 Economics topic Law of diminishing returns. My lesson included some videos from utube on the topic, lesson notes, explanation of sketching graph by teacher, worksheet to be done in groups by students based on sketching graph and interpreting and concluded with an Evaluation quiz and homework activities, The best part of the lesson is student activity done in groups where teacher is a facilitator and students sketching the graph and interpreting the graph. Each student being able to draw the graph and well labelling the various sections of the graph will be an outcome that is best for the topic. The lesson includes modeling by teacher, cooperative learning through groupwork and visuals through the videos which makes the class interesting. I think I have included a variety of strategies in the one hour lesson which is both teacher and student oriented suitable for smart students and the struggling ones. I think teachers should look at calibre and understanding level of students when selecting strategies and there should always be activities in groups to bring students together for interacting and assisting the low achievers. 
Memorization as a teaching strategy?
Timini Lutheran Primary School is located in the Bulolo District of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. It takes about 1.5 hours to drive to Timini from Lae, at the moment due to deteriorating road conditions. I met a teacher there last August who, after an education session on menstrual health, asked for additional resources so she could continue supporting her students learning after we had left.
She said âI must repeat it over and over until this knowledge runs through their veins.â
Memorization and âroteâ learning has always got a bad rap as a teaching strategy. But I have been thinking about the important role it played in the past and how it might be reimagined in the future.
In Samoa, we recall knowledge through a process called tauloto, using chants, poetry, song and storytelling techniques.
At Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand where I used to work, there are memorization aid artefacts on display, used to help knowledge holders remember genealogies, thousands of years old.
âMemorization isnât antithetical to critical and analytical thinking, itâs what lays the foundation for it.â Natalie Wexler, Forbes Magazine April 29, 2019
Iâm looking for memorization aids that might help âlay this foundation.â
In my current capacity as a volunteer community organizer for a menstrual health and well-being enterprise, I want to âcontextualizeâ learning activities whereever possible.
The Tok Pisin word for womb, is bilum bilong pikinini.
Bilum means womb. The place from which all life springs.
Are there songs/chants associated with the twisting and looping of string?
Are there protocols around sourcing traditional materials in its making?
Are there special patterns or design motifs associated with the power of womenâs reproductive abilities?
These are the questions in my head at the moment as I begin developing my lesson plan.
Wish me luck. 
Hi @arpanadeb
I remember being a recipient of these workshops at USP once upon a time, long time ago. I learnt so much from being in the lab, in front of a desktop, with education technologists guiding us through Moodle and all its possibilities. Learning by doing is truely a great strategy.
@SARAVAKI Ni sa Bula Vinaka,
Special Education requires specialist expertise. Its wonderful to meet you online and I look forward to learning from your practice.
My cousin has learnt sign language. This is him here. lol.
I had a student in one of my summer classes once. He was visually impaired, so I had to prepare my lessons accordingly. I learnt so much that summer, about the in/accessibility of my programme, and began to work in earnest with disability service personnel at my institution. The technology is amazing, but what was more wonderful, were fellow students and their compassion and empathy and the more cooperative learning that took place as a result. It moves me to tears just thinking about it nowâŠ
Lolomas
Thanks for raising this issue - I agree, there is a place for rote learning. For example, learning vocabulary in a 2nd language would need rote learning strategies to succeed.
You provide good examples and thanks for sharing.
Thank you @mackiwg
Memorization is used a lot in the Pacific.
Religious instituions in particular, have taken this onboard and run with it.
It can be dangerous in entrenching ideologies however.
We must not become stone.
We must become like water.
There is an artist based in Aotearoa who likens learning to swimming in the ocean. Filipe Tohi told me once, there are students who dip their feet into the water (surface learners), and there are those who dive to the depths of the sea to discover all it has to offer.
We have to teach everyone how to swim.
Interesting, in my language tauloto (memorization) root/route word is âloto.â It refers to the depths of the sea, but also the space in/between heart and stomach⊠Traditionally thought to be the seat of all learning and emotion. Hawaiâians call it 'naâau. Dr Manu Meyer writes about this extensively in her research.
Naâau pono is uprightness.
I would love to learn more Papuan or Austranesian words for these same ideas.
Compassion and empathy are values often missing in our curriculum as well. How can our lessons and teaching activities better equip our students to be more loving human beings.
In our place in the world with some of the highest rates of domestic violence abuses - we need to rethink our priorities.
To end, I believe in radical love - perhaps the greatest of all teaching strategies? 
Indeed, and you canât learn to swim by reading a book!
A rich, wise and insightful reflection. Thanks for sharing openly.
I use a lot of colorful pictures and drawings either through short clips or pictures from my laptop to accompany lesson topics as they( Grades 1 and 2) are more into attractive and moving visuals or animations. However, during this pandemic, pictures and more pictures(black & white) are used on my learnersâ worksheets to get my lessons across, given the farming background of my learners and as well as poor internet connectivity due to their geographical locations.
I chose Experiential learning as I feel when student stimulate or do experiments they remember and relate better as in my lesson which is about part of a plant if my students dissect a plant they will better understand the different parts of the plants and its specific functions, then again this strategy might not work with all subjects.
I chose to prepare materials that could be used for independent study. The topic is phonology, an important subfield of linguistics that focuses on explaining how speech sounds pattern in languages.
As opposed to other areas such as morphology, that explain the structure of words, in my experience, many students find phonology more difficult to tackle, simply because they havenât had a chance to examine the sounds of the languages they speak every day, probably because our teaching focuses so much more on learning to write.
It is important for students to understand the basic concepts, but trying to use them in the analysis of data (examples taken from a language) is fun, and allows to gain a deeper understanding of how the concepts can be applied. I have included data and some cues to help students analyse it, as well as keys so they can proceed independently with their revision.
No, there is nothing that comes out FREE. A small hook costs to catch a fish, Surely the hook is not free, but maybe fish can be free? Someone somewhere somehow has to compensate to have the OPEN SOURCE ongoing.
Interestingly, during my 25 years of using Free and Open Source Software pretty much exclusively, Iâve realised that it is âfreeâ, like the birthday meal my grandmother cooks me, or the hug my son gives me, or the camaraderie my friends and I share around a table.
The âpriceâ, which many of us donât consider a cost, of that freedom (and zero cost) is participation, caring, and learning. I have to know what I am doing because thereâs no one else doing it for me. Others help me learn⊠and to repay their kindness, I want to help others learn, too. Which, I think, is well aligned with the concept of OERs.
There is such thing as a âfree lunchâ⊠at my grandmotherâs table. But I like to repay her kindness by helping with the dishes.
Ah ah⊠it seems like I just came up with my lesson plan, then realized that three of the teaching strategies are included which are; experimental learning, modelling or explicit instruction and activity based learning.
I think, its better to come up with your lesson plan first, then ensure that a good number of teaching strategies are incorporated in your lesson plan.
I use excel designed lesson plan. Very handy, simple and accessible timely. But I now see that my lesson plan, activities etc via the excel template is monotonous!
hi all
I have been teaching for some time now and most schools that I have been using an overhead projector is a problem therefore I resort to using Handouts and student activities. So long as the handouts are crystal clear with learning contents and worksheets it help a great deal to speed up my lessons and assess where my students are at their level of understanding.
By taking up this course ds4ores I now have access to a lot of information within different repositories which i can use and i have also learnt a thing or two on attributing some else work.
I will definitely share what i have learnt with others so that learning can be made fun and interactive for all
I prefer teaching digitally, it is time saving, storage and retrieval is efficient and reliable, provided machinery devices are reliable. More and better options for resource collections. The problem is who, how and when is the controls the internet? is it money? or Designers? Some places the cost of the internet is very expensive, other places is affordable. If we are are to strive for OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES? Surely the internet is one of those educational resources or is it facility? can it be also OPEN??
Teaching accounting needs more hands on work rather than notes. Visual images with a few description should be OK for accounting lesson.
Would be nice to have every teaching subjects teachers create a subject lessons, resources, activities in a one specific âsubject repositoryâ site. So each and every subject teacher can be congregated in one corner of the internet with all creative contents for specific subject, say ACCOUNTING, ECONOMICS, SCIENCE etc.
- What teaching strategy or strategies did you choose for your lesson plan, and why will this be effective in your context?
- What activities have you found most effective for teaching the topic of your lesson?
- What types of activities work best for this topic in your context?
- Are there any teaching strategies you find useful that are not included in the list above?
- What advice or tips do you have for fellow teachers when selecting teaching strategies. Response: 1.Personalised learning because they are to work on a living organism of their choice. 2.Scaffolding and cooperative learning 3.indidual learning and peer review. 4.Brain storming, think,pair and share.5.As teachers, selecting activities should be based on the topic/ course content, your style of teaching and then the various needs and style of learning of your learners.
i am a technical teacher which teach applied technology and technical drawing lessons. in my class the mostly used strategies that i normally use is demonstration and explanation. with these two strategegies i i have mastered the content and developed a strong one on one method of teaching. but with the effect of covid I recommend that we use online teaching with the help of latest technologies.
Teaching strategy and Activities
I normally teach (face to face) using ânote reading activitiesâ, âobservational activitiesâ and sometimes, âtake away activitiesâ such as homework, project or assignments. I teach accounting in years 12 and 13, and I tend to treat my class as mature students. They must read, observe and do activities. If time (and many times happen) get in our way, I let students do the 'take away activity.
What type of Activity work best in Accounting
The best type of activity for teaching accounting is 'group activity, âcompetitive activitiesâ, âpre-announced activityâ. These activities are teacher-designed, wonder if we can have students design their own activities based on the teacher lesson outline?
Advice or Tips?
From experience, I always expect all my students to learn, in reality, not all of them do. How do I know? When comes time for summative assessment, 100% of my learning outcome is never achieved!
Schools in Kiribati now conducted remotely! I have a feelings very few students taking classes for number of reasons, no technical skills, devices affordances, internet issues and data cost.