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Effective teaching strategies

It’s your role as the educator to incorporate effective teaching and learning strategies into your classes. And ClickView can help. We offer thousands of regularly updated educational videos with supporting resources for all subjects, including lesson plan ideas and worksheets. What’s more, our specific teaching strategies resources provide an in-depth look at how you can incorporate new ideas into your classes or lectures. As well as a summary of each strategy, you’ll find innovative ways to incorporate ClickView into the teaching and learning for your particular class.

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Why use a variety of teaching strategies with your students?

Effective teachers understand that innovative teaching strategies are key for significant learning and growth in the classroom. It’s part of creating a positive classroom culture, where students feel connected with you, each other and the content. Using a range of teaching strategies provides a space for students to grow and take calculated risks.

10 effective classroom teaching strategies to enhance learning

ClickView can be incorporated within your teaching and learning strategies in many different ways. Click the link to learn more about each particular strategy.

  1. Setting goals

    Every ClickView video lesson has a clearly defined learning intention to help you and your students with SMART goal setting.

  2. Structuring lessons

    ClickView videos are accompanied by teaching resource packs to provide content ideas and guide you with lesson structure.

  3. Explicit teaching

    Record direct instruction using the ClickView app to model a particular learning outcome for your students.

  4. Worked examples

    Create playlists of video content to facilitate a step-by-step learning experience for your students.

  5. Collaborative learning

    ClickView lesson plans encourage a range of collaborative learning activities and group work opportunities.

  6. Multiple exposures

    Your students can access ClickView’s curriculum-aligned content anywhere, anytime on any device to aid mastery of learning.

  7. Questioning

    Adding an interactive video question layer transforms the learning experience from passive to active instantly.

  8. Feedback

    Formatively assess your students with interactive videos and receive instant feedback to inform your planning and teaching.

  9. Metacognitive strategies

    ClickView’s content on study skills and critical thinking encourages skill development in all areas of learning.

  10. Differentiated teaching

    Create personalised playlists and scaffolded interactives for different learning styles and needs within your class.

Downloadable teaching resources for lessons or lectures

We’re here to streamline and enhance your teaching practice. Our downloadable resources can help prompt you and your students in the classroom or lecture theatre. Access plenty of ideas about how you can incorporate ClickView within your repertoire of teaching and learning strategies.

Need more advice? Get in touch with your ClickView Advisor, attend a webinar or check out the dedicated ClickView training channel.

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"ClickView makes learning new stuff more interesting. I would always rather watch a video or film than listen to people going over all the facts."
Millie, Student

Wellington School, Ayr

Teaching strategy toolkit to support your lessons

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Deepen student understanding using video

Use interactive videos at the beginning of a topic or unit to formatively assess your students. Making the time to check their understanding can help you plan classes and lectures for greatest impact. Interactive videos can help support differentiated teaching once you know what individual students need. They also explicitly support the valuable teaching strategies of questioning and feedback. Discover more about interactive videos

Maximise your use of ClickView for students

The better you know and understand how ClickView works, the more your students benefit. We can support you with extensive training options. Choose the method of learning that suits you best, from onsite training with a ClickView advisor to tutorials, webinars or events. We have a dedicated training channel, which is a hub of information and a great place to start. Learn something new today on our Training page

Free resources for all learning levels

From study guides to lesson plan packs and presentation slides, you’ll find an array of quality resources to support you in your classroom or lecture theatre. Our teaching strategy toolkit has been designed to provide you with fresh ideas and practical tips to enhance teaching and learning in your lessons. To give you confidence, all ClickView-produced resources are developed with subject experts to align with the curriculum. Explore all teaching resources

Use contemporary content to support learning

It’s important to us to keep our video collection evolving to best support you in the contemporary classroom or lecture theatre. To complement our ever-growing ClickView-produced collection, you also have unlimited access to ClickView TV. Here you’ll find a huge selection of dynamic programmes, the latest documentaries and news items, advert-free. See how ClickView TV can engage your students