Research On Teaching Strategies And Skills In Different Educational Stages

Research on Teaching Strategies and Skills in Different Educational Stages

The teaching practice becomes a reciprocal activity in the classroom when teachers apply their creativity and their knowledge resulting from research and scientific evidence in the didactic teaching process, with the purpose of strengthening in the students, the key competencies of their training, turning students at the core of the didactic process. Teaching strategies must be articulated from previous research and planning and designed sequentially to promote real and interesting learning scenarios and thereby achieve significant learning. From this perspective, of teaching-learning strategies, the reciprocal interaction between the student and the teacher becomes the focus of attention, with a playful, motivating, interesting and rewarding approach for the learner. The role of the teacher is conceived as fundamental in the teaching process to achieve the link between teaching, learning, and evaluation strategies. For this reason, multidisciplinary studies are welcome, from all stages of the educational system, with quantitative, qualitative, and mixed approaches and reviews, promoting good teaching practices of reflection and innovation from these studies.

EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Funds of Knowledge

The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions. Drawing from both Vygotskian and neo-sociocultural perspectives in designing a methodology that views the everyday practices of language and action as constructing knowledge, the funds of knowledge approach facilitates a systematic and powerful way to represent communities in terms of the resources they possess and how to harness them for classroom teaching. This book accomplishes three objectives: It gives readers the basic methodology and techniques followed in the contributors' funds of knowledge research; it extends the boundaries of what these researchers have done; and it explores the applications to classroom practice that can result from teachers knowing the communities in which they work. In a time when national educational discourses focus on system reform and wholesale replicability across school sites, this book offers a counter-perspective stating that instruction must be linked to students' lives, and that details of effective pedagogy should be linked to local histories and community contexts. This approach should not be confused with parent participation programs, although that is often a fortuitous consequence of the work described. It is also not an attempt to teach parents "how to do school" although that could certainly be an outcome if the parents so desired. Instead, the funds of knowledge approach attempts to accomplish something that may be even more challenging: to alter the perceptions of working-class or poor communities by viewing their households primarily in terms of their strengths and resources, their defining pedagogical characteristics. Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms is a critically important volume for all teachers and teachers-to-be, and for researchers and graduate students of language, culture, and education.