What is Didactic?

What are Didactic Strategies?

Didactic strategies are procedures and resources that the teachers use to promote meaningful learning and facilitate the processing of new content in a deeper and more conscious way

within these didactic strategies we find two categories:

teaching strategies

Modeling

It’s about showing them in a visual way what they need to do exactly to obtain a goal.

Mistakes

This is about showing students what they should not do. For example, if you are teaching about the use of verbs in the simple present tense, you must show your students that between the sentences “he play the guitar” and “he plays the guitar” the second one is the correct because we need to add an S to the verb when using a third person in english.

Feedback

Students need to know how they are doing through an oral or written feedback. It helps them to develop a better individual or team work.

Student-Led Classroom

Something really useful to do in the classroom in order to motivate students to learn is to get a student to be the teacher. A student could teach a topic in a very different way from the assigned teacher.

Cooperative Learning

Working in a cooperative way students feel motivated to learn one from another. Also, they develop some relevant skills such as communication, critical thinking and solving problems ones.

Experiential Learning

Through the use of simulations, experiments or games students can learn by doing. These kind of activities let students to practice what they learn inmediately. Also, they can reflect and discuss about what they have been learning in the class.

learning strategies

Reciprocal questioning

Once students have finished learning about a specific topic, they get in couples in order to inteview each other asking questions about the topic the were learning some minutes ago. In this way, students can make a review while thinking to answer the quetions asked by his/her peer.

The pause procedure

This strategy is use to make pauses into classes in order to enhance student understanding. The goal of these pauses is encourage students to discuss about what they have been studying or to clarify key points covered.

The muddiest point technique

This strategy is about asking students to write about specific topics that are not clear for them. Topics that are difficult or confusing to undertand

Rotating chair group discussions

This strategy make students to listen in a dinamic way to selected speakers who make a summary of the topics studied previously. Students guide the class discussion by rotating roles and selecting the following speaker once and again