Teaching Methods and Lesson Activities

 

TEACHING METHODS - Foundation Levels

A reader to the Straits Times Forum, Ho Kong Loon, felt that good teachers should come up with creative, exciting and fun teaching methods to liven up the dreariness of repetitive drills.

Teachers can achieve this by using the Multi-Sensory Approach in teaching.

Activities based on the Multi-Sensory Approach:

Tuning-in Activities

You can help children tune-in to the subject by using a rhyme, song, picture talk, show and tell, discussion and/or exploration of common everyday objects or events related to the subject.

Core Lesson Activities

• Show and Tell
• Songs and Rhymes
• Language Games
• Functional Role-Play
• Spelling and Word Building Activities
• Dramatisation
• Rebus Charts
• Chalk Talk on Stories
• Board Games
• Sports Games
• Word Games
• Illustrative and Creative Writing
• Projects/Hands-on

Show and Tell

This is the most basic step in helping preschool children build their store of vocabulary. You can change it to