Teaching Strategy

Matching teaching methods to course objectives is an essential, good teaching practice. Preparing your course has parallels to preparing your research.  You wouldn’t choose a research method without first knowing your research questions; you should treat choosing your teaching strategy with the same mindset.

Here is the teaching/research analogy:

Research	Teaching
Questions, Aims	Course objectives
Research Methodology	Teaching methods
Data Analysis	Student assessment Faculty assessment

Here is an example of matching your teaching methods to your course objectives:

Objective	Possible Teaching Methods
Recalling, recognizing facts	Lecture
Applying facts	Active learning techniques Lecture with case study Lecture with lab Lecture with discussions
Creating new information from old Evaluating someone else’s information	Active learning techniques

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