Interactive Approaches to Teaching: A Framework for INSET [Paperback]

The aims of this text are to present a summary of interactive approaches to teaching and learning and to enable teachers to re-evaluate their basic teaching methods in the light of interactive approaches. The authors hope that the material gathered here from hitherto scattered literature will have a direct impact on teaching practice. It also provides a means by which teachers of students with learning difficulties can investigate and experiment with interactive approaches.What are interactive approaches? interactive teaching methods; the role of the teacher and the learner; problem solving; prompting/scaffolding; assessment; creating an interactive environment; planning aims and objectives; curriculum design and development; recording.The aims of this text are to present a summary of interactive approaches to teaching and learning and to enable teachers to re-evaluate their basic teaching methods in the light of interactive approaches. The authors hope that the material gathered here from hitherto scattered literature will have a direct impact on teaching practice.USCopyright ? 1996 Mark Collis and Penny Lacey