Effective media studies teachers plan strategically, teach, and then modify their teaching in order to better achieve the desired learning.They need to be constantly asking themselves:
They use this information to decide:
This cycle of inquiry can help ensure we don’t continue to do what is no longer working for particular students or groups of students.
Teaching as inquiry diagram from NZC.
The New Zealand Curriculum offers a brief summary of pedagogical approaches that are applicable to all teaching, including teaching in media studies. For a much more comprehensive but very user-friendly guide, see Effective Pedagogy in Social Sciences/Tikanga ā Iwi Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration (BES). The authors of this synthesis identify four ‘mechanisms’ that are at the heart of effective teaching and learning.
Four mechanisms that facilitate learning in the social sciences
Last updated September 12, 2017