I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.

(Confucius)
Interactive Teaching-Learning Methodology

Sir M. Sheeraz Farooq

&
Sir Arsalan Shah
Activity-based
Learning – (ABL)
An Interactive Method
 Learning process mustn’t be a BORING exercise

A Racing competition

Bearing Burdon
Rote Learning
of Books
What is activity-based
learning? (ABL)
 A constructivist learning approach
 A hands –on, creative, participative method of
learning (An interactive method of learning)
 Develops INTEREST and CURIOUSITY in the
subject.
•Learning should be constructive and self
motivated

•It should engage students actively for

children are naturally curious and like to
explore their environment.

•Teacher should create an environment that is

conducive for gaining knowledge
Features and Advantages

 Learning happens through activities

 Learning becomes fun, an enjoyable
process (Fun to Learn)
 Learning is contextual, so, easy to
grasp and meaningful
 Classroom activities are more
student-centric
•Application of knowledge is more important than
acquiring knowledge

•Knowledge is applied through various activities in this

method of learning

•Activities bring variety to the process of learning.

Contrast this with traditional passive listening

•It's easier to catch and sustain the attention and

interest of the learners when they are actively
involved.
•The retention of knowledge thus gained is permanent.

•Bringing subjects down to the level of students’

experience makes understanding easier

•Inviting active participation helps students open up.

•They can freely try out the concepts they have

learned.
 Students are not confined to their
seats and classrooms
 Free exchange of ideas
 Children are self- motivated to know, to
learn
 Teacher as a facilitator or guide, not an
authoritarian so students feel freedom.
•Students have freedom to move around. No
student likes to be tied down to his bench.

•Class rooms become a lively, interesting place.

•Through pair-work, group-work, whole class

discussions students are exposed to a variety of
view points and perspectives.

•The guided discovery approach leads students to a

clearer understanding of the forms and
fundamental concepts.
•The teacher’s role is to set tasks that help students
arrive at an understanding of the concepts,

•make learning challenging and motivating by

selecting appropriate material,

•decide teaching tools, design activities, prompt

and ask questions that make learning challenging
and motivating.
 20 INTERACTIVE LESSON
IDEAS
Speech encouraging
Activities

1. Think, Pair and Share

2. Brain Storming
3. Buzz Session

Individual Student Activities Student Group Activities

4. Exit Slip
5. Misconception Check 14. Board Rotation
6. Circle a Question 15. Pick the Winner
7. Ask the Winner 16. Movie Application

Student Pair Activities Games

8. Pair, Share and Repeat
9. Teacher and student role 17. Crossword
10. Wisdom of Another 18. Scrabble
11. Forced Debate 19. Who/What am I?
12. Optimist/Pessimist 20. Bingo
13. Peer Review Writing task
Interactive teaching is all about instructing the students in a way
they are actively involved with their own learning process. There
are different ways to create an involvement like this. Most of the
time it’s through

•teacher-student interaction
•student-student interaction
•the use of audio, visuals, video
•hands-on demonstrations and exercises

You encourage your students to be active members of your class,

thinking on their own, using their own brains, resulting in long-term
memory retention. Not only the students' knowledge will improve,
but their interest, strength, knowledge, team spirit and freedom of
expression will increase as well.
3 Effective interactive teaching strategies to
encourage speech in your classroom
1. Think, Pair and Share
Set a problem or a question around a certain topic, and pair up your students. Give each pair
of students enough time so they can reach a proper conclusion, and permit the kids to share
their conclusion in their personal voice. This way your students will be engaged,
communicating, and remember more of the class than ever before.

2. Brainstorming
Interactive brainstorming is mostly performed in group sessions. The process is
useful for generating creative thoughts and ideas. Brainstorming helps students
learn to work together, and above all, learn from each other.

3. Buzz Session
Participants come together in session groups that focus on a single topic. Within
each group, every student contributes thoughts and ideas. Encourage discussion
and collaboration among the students within each group. Everyone should learn
from each other’s input and experiences.
 Individual student activities

4. EXIT Slip 5. Misconception

check
6. Circle the 7. Ask the winner
These are best used questions
at the end of the class Discover students' •Ask students to silently
session. You’ll ask the misconceptions. See if •Make a worksheet solve a problem on the
students to write for students can identify or a survey that has board. After revealing the
one minute on a what is the correct a list of questions answer, instruct those who
specific question. It answer, when given a (make them specific) got it right to raise their
might be generalized false fact. It’s useful hands (and keep them
to “what was the most about your topic, and
when going over a ask students to circle raised). Then, all other
important thing you students have to talk to
previous lesson. It (or check) the ones
learned today”. Then,
you can decide if you encourages students to they don’t know the someone with a raised
are going to open up think deeply and wager answers to. hand to better understand
a conversation about all the possibilities. the question and how to
it in your next class solve it next time.
Student pair activities
• After a Think-pair-share experience, you can also ask students to find a
new partner and share the wisdom of the old partnership to this new
8. Pair- partner.
share-
repeat

• Let students brainstorm the main points of the last lesson. Then, pair up
your students and assign them 2 roles. One of them is the teacher, and
9. Teacher the other the student.
and student
role

• After an individual brainstorm or creative activity, pair students to share

their results with each other. Then, call for volunteers who found their
partner’s work to be interesting or exemplary. Students are often more
10. Wisdom willing to share the work of fellow students publicly than their own work.
from another
Student pair activities (Continued)
• Let students debate in pairs. Students must defend the opposite side
11. Forced of their personal opinion.
debate

• In pairs, students take opposite emotional sides of a case study,

statement, or topic. Encourage them to be empathic and truly “live”
12. the case study. You’ll discover some good solution proposals and
Optimist / your students will learn some exceptional social skills.
Pessimist

• To assist students with a writing assignment, encourage them to

13. Peer exchange drafts with a partner. The partner reads the essay and
review writes a three-paragraph response
writing task
Student Group activities
• Assign one topic/question per board. After each group writes an answer,
14. Board they rotate to the next board. Here, they write their answer below the first
answer of the previous group. It can be done using posters also.
Rotation

• Divide the class into groups and let them work on the same topic/problem.
15. Pick Let them record an answer/strategy on paper or digitally. Then, ask the
the groups to switch with a nearby group and let them evaluate their answer.
Winner

• In groups, students discuss examples of movies that made use of a

concept or event discussed in class, trying to identify at least one way the
movie makers got it right, and one way they got it wrong. Think about
16. Movie movies showing historical facts, geographical facts, biographies of famous
Application people, …
 Interactive Game activities
17. • The crossword game is perfect to use as repetition activity. Choose a list of words and
Cross their description, and BookWidgets creates an interactive crossword for you.
word
puzzle
• Use the chapter (or course) title as the pool of letters from which to make words (e.g.,
mitochondrial DNA), and allow teams to brainstorm as many words relevant to the topic
18. as possible. You can also actually play scrabble and ask students to form words from the
newly learned vocabulary.
Scrabble

• Tape a term or name on the back of each student. You can also tape it on their forehead.
Each student walks around the room, asking “yes or no” questions to the other students
19. Who in an effort to guess the term. Of course, the term has something to do with your lesson
/what topic.
am I?

• Bingo is a fun game that can be used for all sorts of exercises: language exercises,
introductory games, math exercises, etc. Take a look at this blog post with all the
different bingo possibilitieshttps://www.bookwidgets.com. You’ll be surprised about how
20. Bingo many interactive lesson activities you can do with just one game.

Example crossword and Hangman for LAB APPARATUS

https://www.bookwidgets.com/play/KJAVC3?teacher_id=4822640524001280
 Some other Interesting
Activities (depending on your
subject requirements and Age group)
• Project making (all Subjects) • Clapping for syllables (English)
• Topical Presentation (all Subjects) Activities through Smart Note book
• Hand wrestling for Net Force (Physics) including:
• Periodic Table Song (Chemistry) • Game Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg • Monster Quizz
VQKCcfwnU • Fill in the Blanks
• Formulae Cards (Chemistry) • Match Em’ Up
• Math Bingo. etc.
• Make a paper plate clock. ...
• Guess the weight. ...
• Hopscotch math. ...
• Pizza fractions. ...
• 'Lengthy' scavenger hunt. ...
• Survey and graph. (Mathematics)
•Teachers should device activities to suit the age group
and skills of the learners.

•There should be variety in activities.

•Activities should not only help gather knowledge, but

apply and evaluate knowledge.

•Activities should be interesting, and thought provoking.

•There should be individual, pair, group and whole class

activities.
Reading Activities

 A reading lesson typically has three parts: pre, while

and post activities. These activities are meant to
activate prior knowledge of the learners even before they
start reading. The logic behind activating prior
knowledge is to build upon what students already
know about a topic as a lead-in to the main reading
task. The more teachers activate students’ prior
knowledge, the easier it will be for the students to retain
new information from the main reading task.
Pre reading activities

Aim

 Activating and building background knowledge

 Familiarizing students with the theme and vocabulary
 Bring the theme down to the experiential level of students

Activities
For theme a questionnaire, one or two questions, a picture or a
comic strip that would lead to a discussion on the theme.
For vocabulary, puzzling out from the context, brainstorming,
matching words with meanings or crossword puzzles
While reading Activities
Aim
Arouse and sustain interest,
Establish connections, predict what is to come, encourage
creative thinking
Activities
Read the headline and guess the theme/plot
Read the first paragraph and guess the setting, period how
the story would proceed – discuss various possibilities
Read further, stop, ask if a twist is expected in the plot, and
what tells this.
Gap filling, completion of tables/trees/flowcharts.
Post reading Activities
Aim
 Better understanding of the topic/plot
 Insight into characters, motives
 Interpretation, analysis of situation reactions
 Creative thinking
 Draw attention to writing style, language, how
information is organized
Activities
Group discussions, whole class discussions
Table completion, gap filling
Inferences and illustration
Summarizing, sequencing, suggesting/matching headings,
sub-headings
Speaking Activities

 Aim
 Remove inhibition, build confidence
 Continuous and fluent interaction in natural situations both
informal and formal
 Exchange of ideas and higher thinking skill
Activities
Narration and description
Brainstorming and pair/group/class discussions for idea
generation
Role plays and repetition for learning language structures
Speeches, debates for fluency and confidence building
exercise
Constraints of activity-based teaching

 Time factor: Students can get carried away by activities.

Teachers with the pressure of completing syllabus on
time may find lecture method more convenient
 Large classes: Teachers cannot freely move and
monitor all groups and cannot provide individual
attention
 Passivity: Just as in traditional class rooms a few
always actively participate when others remain passive
listeners
 Digression: Students tend to move away from the topic
under discussion