Proven teaching methods

How do we reduce learning backlogs?

Systematically catching up on learning material

Two steps forward, a step back

This teaching method especially helps students with short attention spans to better follow the school material. The learning content is dealt with bit by bit, always trying to overshoot the learning objective, to then return afterwards. This has many advantages for the student. On the one hand, the fear and excitement of new things is taken away by the advance notice of the learning material. On the other hand, by jumping forward, the learner sees what is in store for him, which reduces his stress level and increases his ability to absorb. The step back picks up the student from the subject matter he is familiar with. Returning gives the teacher the opportunity to ensure, that the student has internalized and understood the subject matter, before it goes any further. The positive side effect of this approach is, that with every new information they learn, students feel a sense of achievement. You are more motivated to keep going. This constant preliminary approach is systematically ensured, that the student does not fall by the wayside and that further learning is possible.

advantages
  • reduces the student's nervousness
  • Students can better follow the stream of thought
  • increases the student's receptivity
 additional advantages
  • keeps picking up the student
  • increased experience of success through repetition
  • enables steady progress in the material

Knowledge in small bites

The main task of the teacher is to make himself superfluous. The main achievement is not to unload the teacher's entire wealth of knowledge like a freight train onto the student, but to separate the important from the unimportant. Relevant knowledge should be made available to the student in small bites in a supportive and simplified manner. To do this, the teacher has to pre-digest the content and context, Didactically sorted and feed into the student's stream of thought in small portions in a targeted manner. The trick here is not to interrupt the student's stream of thought and thus discourage them from thinking along, but to tactically steer the stream of thought in the right direction in order to create clarity.

advantages
  • Student thinks better
  • Student is not overwhelmed
  • Student becomes more independent

Supervision of the capacity to absorb

I often experience how students drift away mentally during class. The student's concentration is depressed. In order not to waste valuable teaching time on repetitions or even to prevent overloading by continuing to talk, I always try to monitor the student's willingness to participate based on their posture and ability to react (Monitoring). When I register a decreasing willingness to participate, I try to restore the receptivity by reactivating e.g.. by opening the window for ventilation, briefly getting up and moving. If the student continues to show poor receptivity, it is time to reduce the flow of information to an acceptable level in order to be able to continue learning.

advantages
  • no waste of class time
  • no frontal teaching
  • better absorption capacity

Simplifications and donkey bridges

Content, which one does not yet understand are explained in a simplified way and packaged in this way, that these do not hinder further learning. Often, individual donkey bridges can be worked out in order to better internalize abstract relationships and to make learning time even more productive. Appropriate methods for this are analogy thinking, Associative thinking, Mind mapping and haptic or. spatial memory.

advantages
  • Students remember material better
  • Students learn important things first
  • Students remember better

Give time to reflect

Often I had to see how teachers don't give the student the aha-effect, or give the solution to the student. The learning effect falls flat. I give each student his or her time to come up with the solution on their own and steer through questions that point the way ahead. I am not afraid of the silence, which many people often find embarrassing.

advantages
  • no tension while studying
  • Students learn through the aha effect
  • Students learn to graduate

Teaching convenience

When teaching at home, parents should always remember to give their child a glass of water to increase the child's learning ability and learning comfort. The physiological effect of hunger, Durst, Freeze, Oversitting, Disturbing background noises can have a strong effect on the ability to concentrate. It is all the more important to ensure a pleasant learning environment in advance.

advantages
  • prevents physical and mental exhaustion
  • Increases learning comfort
  • Promotes concentration

How better education leads to success ?

Learning deficit leads to tutoring

For more than 8 Years I have been teaching mathematics, German and English in preparation for the main school graduate, and graduating from public schools in Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. Through my intensive teaching practice, I have been able to sensitize my perception of the understanding problems and knowledge bottlenecks of students. The framework plans of the countries provide for a modular lesson plan with increasing levels of difficulty. With each grade level, the demands placed on students continue to increase, The material learned so far is assumed to be known. If the student does not understand something, there is a learning deficit. If this backlog is not immediately caught up in the teaching context in the same semester, there is a constantly widening gap, which prevents the student from progressing and causes unnecessary irritation when learning, can lead to frustration and depression. Bridging this knowledge gap is often only possible with the help of an outsider.
With a sharpened eye, I often recognize after just a few minutes where students have their learning hurdles by asking specific questions. These are systematically worked through by me in 90-minute sessions. In the course of my tutoring work, valuable insights and procedures have proven their worth.
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