Here are some teaching strategies for the best BIO110 workshop!

• Visualisation: Bringing unclear academic concepts to life (eg. metabolism) by using the whiteboard and encouraging students to participate and work their way through each problem.
• Discussion: Always engage in active discussion with students to enhance an active learning environment by allowing the students to listen, talk, read, write and learn.
• Personalised learning: No two students have the same learning abilities and levels of understanding. A workshop leader should always take that into consideration and pay attention to each student individually while always giving them an opportunity to learn throughout office hours, end of the workshop, or a separate meeting time.
• Being approachable: Students always feel more comfortable and pay more attention whenever their workshop leader is interactive and approachable.
• Being prepared, confident and interested: Whenever a workshop leader is interested in the material and is prepared really well to answer students’ questions, this will make it easier for everyone. Students tend to pay more attention and actually absorb the information when the instructor is confident and excited about the material.
• Ask students to prepare themselves and have some good background about the workshop’s material.