Teaching strategies can be defined as the tactics or procedures teachers use in order to communicate the lesson, and manage the classroom successfully.
Teaching strategies are different from teaching methods in that they are simple procedures used for bringing about an effective delivery of the lesson.
The use of such strategies is dependent upon the classroom environment and student's learning and discipline responses.
Teaching strategies are also different from teaching styles which refer to modeling and communicating lessons to an attentive audience. The most popular teaching styles include:
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Formal authority teaching style:focusing on content and teacher-centered learning, where the teacher is |
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responsible for providing and controlling the flow of content and the student receives the content. |
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Demonstrator or personal model teaching style: running teacher-centered classes with an emphasis on |
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demonstration and modeling. |
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Facilitator model teaching style: focusing on student-centered learning activities, where there is much more |
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responsibility placed on students to take the initiative for meeting the demands of learning tasks. |
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Delegated teaching style:placing more control and responsibility for learning on students or groups of |