Materials and equipment

Handout 3.12: Appropriate Instructional Approaches and Techniques
Flip chart and markers

Preparation

Review the handout.
Copy handout.

STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

1. Have tutors brainstorm what types of activities would be useful with Aboriginal learners or review any ideas they had while discussing the previous activities. Note their ideas on the flip chart.
2. Use the handout Appropriate Instructional Approaches and Techniques for more ideas. Important strategies include the following:
   • language experience stories
   • drama
   • Reader’s Theatre
   • art in its many forms (e.g., sculpting, painting, drawing, weaving)
   • traditional stories
3. Discuss how to incorporate the concepts from the handout into a tutoring session, with an emphasis on using art forms in their tutoring.
4. Ask tutors to discuss which strategies noted above they like to use when learning new concepts.