My target audience for this speech would be teachers, tutors, school administrations, and educators who provide teaching and learning experience for students at elementary, secondary and tertiary levels. The speech helps teachers and educators to identify the ideal method of teaching to improve their teaching strategies and enable learners to achieve the intended goals of education. The topic is also necessary for the school administration to develop and implement policies that will improve teaching and learning in education, leading to the achievement of the school’s goals of education.
1. Introduction
a. Audience Hook: People generally remember 90% of what they do or experience (Dale, 1969)
Figure 1: Dale’s Cone of Experience (Davis and Summers, 2014)
b. Thesis Statement: Interactive learning should be used in teaching to engage learners, promote student participation, and stimulate real experience, leading to increased comprehension, application, and retention of information.
c. Preview of Main Points:
i. Stimulating student participation, practical application of knowledge, and excitement.
ii. Enabling teachers to measure student accomplishment, motivate learners, provide flexible teaching, and enhance student-centered learning.
2. Main Point 1: interactive learning stimulates interest, participation, and practical application of learning
a. Methods of interactive learning
i. Brainstorming methods such as structured and unstructured approaches, reverse thinking, teamwork, online interaction, forums, and chats
ii. Group discussions
iii. Modeling and simulation activities
iv. Student presentations to build confidence and enable students learn through experience
v. Questions and Answers to stimulate discussion and hands-on experience (Chin and Chia, 2004).
vi. Using teaching aids that attract students’ attention and call for answers
b. Importance of interactive learning:
i. Student participation –learning through practice
ii. Gives students hands-on experience
iii. Comprehension and retention of information
iv. Makes learning interesting and exciting
v. Students drive their own learning
3. Main Point 2: Enabling teachers to measure student accomplishment, motivate learners, provide flexible teaching, and enhance student-centered learning.
a. Importance of interactive teaching for teachers
i. Enables teachers to measure the level of accomplishments or achievements of learners in each lesson, and how learners master the material of the lesson.
ii. Promotes flexibility: teachers can allow learners to participate, giving ideas that enable quick adjustments to accommodate new knowledge and learning experience during the lesson
iii. Interactive teaching enables teachers to monitor the practical application of knowledge among learners (Brown, 2014).
iv. Interactive teaching also helps teachers to motivate students through student engagement and participation.
b. Expectations of teachers and Learners
i. Teachers easily clarify students’ expectations through interactive learners.
ii. Students should know each other and work together by sharing ideas and discovering new knowledge
iii. Addressing individual needs of learners enables the teacher to develop appropriate teaching methods and provide necessary support and resources
iv. The teacher should determine and maintain order in class based on the rules of the school.
v. The teacher should convince learners to accept the rules of the class and follow the right order in interaction.
4. Conclusion
a. Restatement of Thesis: teachers should use interactive teaching approach because it stimulates learning, encourages student participation, self-driven learning, and the retention and practical application of knowledge.
b. Summary of Main Points:
i. Interactive teaching is an effective learning approach because it enables students to participate in learning, apply the knowledge they learn practically, and gain interest in learning.
ii. Teachers use interactive learning to benchmark student achievements, provide flexibility in learning, and motivate students.
c. Closing Statement:
i. Teachers, educators, tutors, and education administrators should promote interactive teaching by allowing students to take part in class activities, apply knowledge through practice, and stimulate learning through questions and group discussions.
ii. Learners should be informed about the importance of following the school rules when participating in class discussions to avoid disagreements and conflicts.
References
Brown, T. (2014). Really Useful Maths Book: A Guide to Interactive Teaching. New York: Routledge.
Chin, C., and Chia, L. (2004). Problem-based learning: using students questions to drive knowledge construction. Science Education, 88 (5), 707-727
Dale, E. (1969). Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching. 3rd Ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart " Winston.
Davis, B. and Summers, M. (2015). Applying Dale’s Cone of Experience to increase learning and retention: A study of student learning in a foundational leadership course. QScience Proceedings: Engineering Leaders Conference
2015: 6 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qproc.2015.elc2014.6.
