1. Developing Innovative
Teaching Methods
Satyendra Arora

2. If We Teach Today As We Taught Yesterday
, We Rob Our Children Of Tomorrow.
-John Dewey
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3. What is innovation?
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4. What is innovative teaching?
New, Novel, Unusual, Unexpected, Out of
Box,
Fresh,
Off
beat, Unbeaten, Different, Creative, Ahead of the
curve, Different, Creative, Original, Advanced, Uniq
ue,
Technology
based, Imaginative, Inventive, Inspired, Ingenious, F
ertile, Resourceful, Pioneering, state of the art, up
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5. Innovative teaching
Must be distinguished from :
• Mere change
• Innovation implies change for the better.
• It is always students centred and improves the
learning processes.
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6. Innovative teaching
Educational Innovation requires :
1. A clear rationale for change
2. A description of how change will be achieved
3. A clear analysis of enabling and disabling factors
4. A strategy for prompting ownership of change
5. An evaluation plan
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7. Innovative teaching
“Any kind of teaching which addresses
creativity and applies it to methods and
contents can be seen as innovative
teaching.”
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8. Innovative teaching
These practices include, but not limited to :
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Student Centred classroom
Project Based lessons
Integrated Studies
Use of technology to promote 21st Century
Skills
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9. Robert Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction
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Gain attention
Inform learners of objectives
Stimulate recall of prior learning
Present the content
Provide “learning guidance”
Elicit performance (practice).
Provide feedback
Assess performance
Enhance retention and transfer to the job
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10. Robert Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction
• Since teaching in a class may be organised as sequence of
steps, there is a scope for innovation in each of these
steps.
• If each of the 9 events in the list of events can be done in
say 2 new ways, there would be >500 different ways of
teaching any lesson innovatively.
• With more imagination, there could be millions of ways of
innovatively teaching the same lessons.
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11. Do you teach or educate?
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12. Not everyone appreciates Innovative Teaching
• Innovative Teachers are considered distractors.
• Innovative Teachers are considered disruptive.
• Innovative Teachers are considered seeking cheap
popularity among students, because students enjoy
learning their way.
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13. Benefits of Innovative Teaching
• Develops Globally Competitive Learners.
• Creates Life Long Learners.
• Helps maintain the motivation to learn.
• Encourages deeper learning compared to surface learning.
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14. Innovative Teaching Techniques
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, may be we
should teach the way they learn.”
-Ignacio Nacho Estrada
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15. Exploring Innovative Teaching Techniques
• Group Work & Presentations
• Mnemonics
• Humour
• Gamification of Learning
• Mind Maps
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16. Exploring Innovative Teaching Techniques
• Problem Based Learning
• The Z – A Approach
• Flipped Classroom
• Integrating Technology into Teaching
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17. Mnemonics
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18. Mnemonics
Princess Never Uses Silver Jewellery
Much in England, Venice & Malaysia
Pandit
Hari
Badri
Hari
Prasad
Bol
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19. The Gamification of Learning
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20. Flipped Classroom
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21. Sir Kin Robinson : Changing Education Paradigms
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22. What is ADHD?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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23. Sir Kin Robinson : How is Technology transforming Education?
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25. 101 Ideas for Innovative Teachers by Microsoft
This booklet will be available
in TRS-31
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28. What are 21st Century Skills ?
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