- Get to know your audience.
- Build into your lessons and curricula various activities that activate the different channels of learning.
- Summarize the lesson at some point.
- Short activities
- Concrete activities
- Familiar activities
- High-interest Activities (be careful that boys and girls really do have different interests at these ages)
- Interact with students in feedback, before and after class, and during class. (but how?)
- Warm atmosphere
- Positive atmosphere
- Establish classroom discipline
- Strong communication with parents
- Give parents tools too!
- Effective diagnostics
- Field-trips with a purpose
- Teachers need to be fearless
Now, how do we do these things from a practical point of view?