Friday, October 21, 2011

Teaching Tip #16

Incorporate Manipulatives

This goes along with the technology.  Use manipulatives as often as possible.  And honestly, most anything can be considered a manipulative.  This will help kinesthetic learners as well as visual ones.  It also gives students a different way of viewing things.

One of the guys I graduated with created a logic puzzle that related to physics and a "who done it" mystery situation.  After presenting the problem, he connected people (playing characters) with string, and cut the connections as innocence was proven.

I sometimes give them coloured pencils and have them do a drawing activity relating to the topic we're on.

You can do a book report or historical analysis with posters or something.

I don't know - the possibilites are endless.

Just...don't stand there and lecture at them the entire time. It's boring.

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