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32. Reading aloud or Reading to the students. Students normally enjoy this experience and will listen
carefully, depending on the story or material.

33. Prepare editorial for school or church paper – A writing assignment but can be a lot of opinions and
very little content.

34. Volunteer (tutoring, hospital) Good for helping a student apply the lessons learned to real life.

35. Brainstorming. This is an event where you open the class up for suggestions. Perhaps they may
come up with some excellent ideas that may help you become a better teacher. Sometimes students
think of things that a teacher may never think about.

8.4 Let’s Practice…

1. What does, “variety is the spice of life” mean when it comes to teaching methods?

2. What is the attention span of a typical small child? _________ older child?
_________typical adult? ______________.

3. If you solely utilize the lecture method for 50 minutes, what will happen to the majority of
the class?

4. What factors determine which method or methods you will utilize in a teaching session?

5. What are the pros and cons of the lecture method?

6. What caution should be taken by the teacher when using open class discussion?

7. What types of methods are best employed by a teacher who has a very small class?

8. List a couple of student-engaging methods listed:

8.5 Let’s Personalize this lesson…

Activity: Now that you have been given an entire tool chest of ideas that you can
incorporate in your teaching, after reading through them, which methods do you really like
and plan to utilize in the near future? Describe how you plan to implement these methods.

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