Another aspect of effective teaching is making your learning activities responsive to the wide variety of individual learning styles experienced by your students. Warm-up activities are used to get students on task as soon as the bell rings, and are often used to transition into the lesson plan after the teacher has completed beginning of class administrative chores. Effective teachers use multiple approaches to meet the individual preferred learning styles of their students. These multiple activities tend to help each student master the lesson objectives. Assessment activities require students to actively interact with instructional materials and have their performance accurately evaluated as they respond to the materials.
Effective teachers use multiple ways and frequent activities to assess student performance.
Hands on projects, personal observations, oral and multi-media presentations, home work assignments, as well as traditional quizzes and tests should be associated with components of the culminating tasks of the instructional unit. Remediation activities should be directly responsive to results of the assessment activities and provide additional opportunities for the kids to develop the appropriate skills necessary to achieve lesson objectives. These activities can be used to enhance learning retention by involving the entire class, or be provided on an individual basis.