OTT – Online Teachers Training

Feb 23

Teaching Tip #10: Whiparound Strategy

Whiparound is an instructional tool teachers can use to check for understanding in a group setting and for summarization. While the whip around strategy may not provide individual, student-level information about understanding, it offers a low threat environment and helps teachers Read more

Jan 19

Teaching Tip #9: The Nudge

What do you and I mean by a Nudge? Besides knowing it to be something that goads a laggard forward, did you ever think it could assume the role of a methodological approach to get learners to respond? Well, not Read more

Jan 19

Teaching Tip #8: The Zeigarnik Effect

It was the year 1920. Bluma Zeigarnik, a Lithuanian scholar in Gestalt psychology sat in a restaurant watching waiters. Zeigarnik noticed that the waiters seemed to remember complex orders that guided them to deliver the right combination of food to Read more

Aug 11

Teaching Tip # 7: Think Aloud Strategies for the Classroom

Thinking aloud is a time tested instructional strategy that helps students learn how to monitor their own thinking as they read an assigned passage. They are directed by a series of questions which they think about and answer aloud while Read more

Aug 11

Teaching Tip # 6: Five Teaching Techniques to Teach High Frequency Words

The following techniques activate different parts of the brain while learning high frequency or sight words. These techniques use many repetitions of the word, namely, seeing, hearing, speaking, spelling, and writing. The physical movements help to retain the student’s attention Read more

Aug 11

Teaching Tip # 5: Would you model what you want your students to learn?

Your maxim should be ‘I do, we do, you do’. It is always a good idea to model for students what they are expected to do or produce, especially for new skills or activities. Showing students what you expect is infinitely Read more

Jun 05

Teaching Tip #4: Tips on teaching students do turn-taking in conversations

Learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community, and teachers can help students learn this skill. Here are some tips: Use an object, such as a talking stick as a signal Read more

May 26

Teaching Tip#3: Tips on how to teach your students to summarize

Summarizing is putting in your own words a shortened version of the written or spoken material, stating the main points and leaving out everything that is not essential. Summarizing is more than retelling – it means analyzing information, distinguishing important Read more

May 19

Teaching Tip#2: What are the 6 things you must remember while teaching a listening lesson?

Use a pre-listening activity to prepare students for what they’re about to hear and are more likely to understand. Aim to get students to reflect on what they already know about the subject of the listening track by explaining a Read more