Interactive teaching is a means of instructing whereby the teachers
actively involve the students in their learning process by way of regular
teacher-student
interaction, student-student interaction, use of audio-
visuals, and
hands-on demonstrations. The students are constantly
encouraged to be
active participants.
What is an interactive learning?
Interactive Learning is a pedagogical approach that incorporates
social networking and urban computing into course design and
delivery. Interactive Learning has evolved out of the hyper-growth in
the use of digital technology and virtual communication, particularly by
students.
What is an interactive learning activity?
Interactive Teaching and Learning Activities. (also called “Student
Engagement Techniques”) The following activities provide
opportunities for students to engage with content in the classroom.
What is an interactive lesson?
Interactive
learning is a hands-on approach to help students become
more engaged
and retain more material. With or without a form of
technology, interactive learning helps students strengthen problem
solving and critical thinking skills.
What is an interactive class?
Interactive lectures are classes in which the instructor incorporates
engagement triggers and breaks the lecture at least once per class to
have students participate in an activity that lets them work directly with
the material
What is interactive teaching strategy?
You
must engage participants in learning activities that lead to a higher
level of understanding and result in the participants 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.
What is an Interactive Question.
Interactive question help you achieve a higher response rate
and get more accurate replies.
What is an interactive image?
Interactive images are a visual and interactive alternative to check
boxes, with responses given by clicking directly on the image.
What is a Pear Deck?
It is an interactive presentation
tool that is used to actively engage
students in individual and social learning.
Teachers create
presentations using their Google Drive account.
Meaning:
This theme addresses how well students communicate with one
another in
class. Classes where students have opportunities to
communicate with
each other help students effectively construct their
knowledge.
By
emphasizing the collaborative and cooperative nature of scientific
work, students share responsibility for learning with each other,
discuss
divergent understandings, and shape the direction of the class.
Social
Interaction Strategies
Within
social interaction, the instruct or facilitator and student take on
specific roles. The instructor must explain the concept topic and
organize the groups. The process and rules of working as teams will
need
to be taught and reviewed to build team skills and group
cohesion.
During the process, the instructor must provide
content focus and
review. Interaction must be student to student.
Students must be
active and responsible for their learning, both acting
as a facilitator
and learner. Students will be able to explain content
to one another
as well as the entire class.
Steps to implementing Social Interaction:
1.
Introduction of concept by facilitator
2. Students group into
teams.
3. Students negotiate, compromise, and explain concepts to
another
while facilitator monitors.
4. Students assess their work.
5.
Students present findings.
Group Discussion
Group
discussion helps develop thinking skills and social interaction.
Discussions can be used as an introduction to a lesson to get students
into the proper mindset or compose an entire lesson. There are two
types
of discussion, whole-class and small-group .
Whole-class discussion, is when the entire class is involved in a
discussion on a particular topic. Instructors generally lead the
discussion, but students can lead student-centered discussions in
some
cases. The instructor has to keep the group focused, not drift too
far
from the topic, and keep the discussion going in an organized and
steady
fashion.
Teacher's responsibilities
They include:
Planning the discussion thoroughly,
creating key questions to
ask of the group to:
1- keep the discussion goals within reach, keep the
learners
in mind when planning, know the issue well,
2-provide an objective, create a "supportive classroom
environment",
3- correct incorrect discussions,
4-show the relationship of facts and brought up during
the exercise,
5-and keep things interesting and light to avoid
conflicts.
Student responsibilities include: knowledge of the topic,
respect others' opinions, and think about their own opinions.
Group
Investigation
IT is a
cooperative learning method in which students work in self-made groups
of two to six and are given a specific topic within the lesson that the
class is learning.
By using group discussion and planning, the group
creates a project that they present to the entire class regarding what
they discovered about their chosen topic.
Cooperative scripting is
another method in which students take turns summarizing sections of
class material to one another until all of the material is covered.
Informal group
One example of this method
is the think-pair-share strategy.
Think-pair-share is a discussion
teaching strategy that involves
three stages of student interaction.
Think-pair-share is a structured timed discussion helping
eliminating
off task thinking and behavior. Students’ intellectual
and social skills
are developed when using these activities,
by listening carefully,
sharing, summarizing, and asking question.
Group Projects
Some examples of group projects
are study groups where student
review content to prepare for exams, shop
or peer helpers where
older students teach young students, panels and
debate teams .
students research a controversial issue and choose a
pro/con side
to defend against another group, or role playing,
simulation,
and game teams where student play games on content that
had
been taught resulting in a certificate or prize to the winning group.
Advantages :
These models
are student centered so they engage a higher level of thinking. Because
the method is student centered it promotes meaningful learning.
It can
be beneficial to students that work well in a cooperative setting, and
can be used to promote leadership, team work and problem solving skills.
This strategy is most beneficial to students that work well in a
cooperative environment rather than a competitive one.
Some students are
able to learn more efficiently and be more motivated when working
together with their peers rather than by themselves.
Because students
work together in groups they learn to use leadership as well as problem
solving skills.
Interaction and Technology
Since
the Social Interaction Method depends on the students to interact with
one another, this is where technology comes in. Discussion boards and
chat rooms are some examples that allow for the social contact of
students while using technology.
The teachers can then monitor students,
promote on task behaviors, and help students through e-conversations. A
main source of technology these days is the Internet and the unlimited
amount of information we get from it. The Internet, e-mail, blogs, and
any website you can think of, keeps us learning without having come to
clash
There must be a mutual interaction
in the teaching or learning process through the following
sides:
1-The instructor interacts with the learners, the content ,
the method of teaching , the technology used and the
teaching aids.
2- The learner interacts first with himself as a self talk, with the peer, the pair and the group as a dialoguing with others,
the content , the technology used, the environmental realia as a
practical learning and with his daily life as an independent learning.
