TTE Visual

Some Teaching suggestions

The global overview, for which many transparencies are designed, provides a structure which serves as a memory anchor enabling students to work independently and with confidence. Transparencies offer a powerful aid for teachers for this.

Use transparencies to put students to work individually or in small groups. Student activity often is based on independent learning and transparencies help teachers to instruct effectively. You only have to spend a few minutes to provide the information and crucial knowledge. New information can be processed meaningfully - the visual can be recalled easily later, when working alone.

Use transparencies to introduce new concepts. Visualization helps pupils to distinguish essentials from supporting information, an important skill when making notes.

Showing transparencies during the presentation of your lesson helps students maintain the lead of the story and to focus on key concepts.

Use transparencies to repeat and test key concepts and processes

Show similarities and differences between similar processes, organisms or structures by using different combinations of transparencies.

Address the needs of pupils with language or abstract-application problems by providing your lessons with concrete, visual material.

Encourage students to come forward to point out and explain aspects of the projected image.

Let students individually or in small groups generate their own answers. Let them take notes and use the answers in later tests.

Stimulate students to use these transparencies in their own presentations.

Let students unravel clues in the image. Design quizzes with the transparencies as a premise.

Transparencies provide strong visual reinforcement. Dictate questions based on the images to be used. Use a quizz to test the desired knowledge and skills.

You can write on the sheets with washable ink and use them time after time. Select an image and extend it with your own notes - write and add as much as you desire.

Develop repetition strategies with which you can combine the transparencies and other teaching material.