Teaching Approach, Teaching Method, Teaching Techinique, and Teaching Strategies

While teaching, teachers need to know several approaches to teaching. It is important to recognize them in order to put them into practice in the classroom.

We need to define different concepts when teaching such as: teaching approach, teaching method, teaching technique, and teaching strategies.

Teaching approach: It is a set of assumptions dealing with the nature of language learning and teaching.

It is your own personal philosophy of teaching. What is the nature of education? What is the role of the teacher, the student, the administration, and the parents? To be an effective teacher is the best way to engender a sense of trust and familiarity.

Teaching method: Method is defined as an overall plan for systematic presentation of language based on a selected approach. It refers to how you apply your answers from the previous questions to your day to day instruction in front of your students.

Teaching techniques: they are specific classroom activities consistent with a method and therefore harmony with an approach as well.

Teaching strategies: Our role as teachers is to create an environment in which all students can participate to the best of their abilities. One of our greatest challenges is to provide a positive learning environment for the students in our classroom. Because each student has his or her own unique set of physical and intellectual abilities, perceptions, and needs, the learning styles of our students may vary widely.

The main difference between teaching approach and teaching method is that teaching approach is what we think about education, teaching and learning as well. Teaching method is how we apply our philosophy of learning in our classroom. Teaching approach is our own theory of learning and teaching while teaching method is how we apply our own theory of learning and teaching in our classrooms. Teaching method is more specific because it includes many clues and hints to make learning take place and to make students raise awareness about their own learning. 

A technique is a very specific, concrete practice or trick designed to accomplish an immediate objective. Teaching strategies is like the way the teacher develops activities in the classroom. The role of the teacher is mainly to create a very good atmosphere of learning so that students will learn as much as possible and develop skills as well.