The key notion behind mind mapping is that students learn and remember more effectively by using the full range of visual and sensory tools at their disposal. Pictures, music, color, even touch and smell play a part in the learning armory, thus, helping to recollect information for long time. The key is to build up mind maps that make the most of these things building on the students’ own creativity, thinking and cross linking between ideas that exist in their own minds.
2. Sense of Humor
Everyone loves a teacher with an infectious sense of humor. Looking at the lighter side of life not only fosters cordial relations between professors and students, but also provides welcome relief while trying to follow a difficult lecture on a complicated subject.
• Humor may be successfully used for different purposes and in different situations:
• Humor strengthens the relationship between student and teacher
• It reduces stress
• Humor makes a course more interesting
• When relevant to the subject, humor may enhance recall of the material
• Humor has the ability to relax people, reduce tension, and thereby create an atmosphere conducive for learning and communication.
Using humor in teaching is a very effective tool for both the teacher and student.
3. Z to A Approach
This approach attempts to explain the application part of a particular concept first. The teacher should explain the application of a particular concept first and explain the effects of such applications.
Strengths of the Z to A Approach
– It makes a particular concept clear
– Students develop interest to know exactly the concept.
– Creates long lasting memory/correlation of a concept.
Weaknesses of the approach.
– It takes quite long time for a teacher to introduce a concept
– Initial difficulty in understanding a particular concept will be encountered.
4. Mnemmonics Words – Words – Words Approach
Here the teacher is not supposed to talk on a particular concept for a quite long time. But to make it clear to the students he can just go on saying mnemonics or its associated meaning in words. Here he goes on saying only words instead of sentence, and once they come to a basic understanding of the meaning of a particular concept then the teacher will explain in sentences. For example in teaching language courses this technique can be used as an effective medium by the teacher to develop word power.
The main characteristics of this approach include:
• Dictionary must be used widely
• Word power increases
• Teacher also gets to know many words pertaining to a particular concept.
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