25 Simple Teaching Ideas

Posted on July 6, 2012 by miketidd in Education, Geography, Innovation, Teaching & Learning, Technology and tagged 25 Simple Teaching Ideas, 5 W's, Blog, Board games, Cake, Collaborative learning, Computer pitch, Country of the week, Education, Education blogs, Education resources, Educational resources, emotive graphs, Geography, Geography in the news, Geography resources, innovation, Learning, Living graphs, Model it, Mystery backpacks, Presentations, quizzes, Sticky notes, Taboo, Teachers, Teaching, Technology, Thinking cards, Tidd News, Tidd Times, Tools, Twitter, Washing line.

Here are 25 simple ideas you might want to do in the classroom. If you have any questions or would like to add to my next 25 ideas (to be posted later in the year), please contact me via the blog or by twitter (@tiddtalk). Enjoy!

1. Post it notes

2. Make a volcano cake

3. Country of the week – Shower curtain map

4. Tweet it – Summarise what you have learnt in 140 words or less

5. Model it with plastercine

6. Pop Up Models

7. BBC news clips

8. Thinking cards

9. Tidd News – create your own broadcast

10. Quizzes

11. Collaborative learning – passing the paper around adding more ideas

12. Create mark scheme criteria

13. Presentations

14. Board games

15. Mystery backpack – where in the world using the clues inside!

16. Draw it

17. Blog it

18. 5 W’s

19. Washing Line

20. Computer Game pitch – Dragons Den

21. Taboo

22. Living graph

23. Tidd Times

24. Emotive graph

25. Geography in the news