Teaching & learning skill set for educators, trainers, and course designers. Use when: designing lessons or curricula, choosing a teaching method, writing learning objectives, creating lesson plans (giáo án), assessing learners, analyzing your audience, or finding research materials. Triggers: 'design a lesson', 'help me teach this', 'choose a teaching method', 'write learning objectives', 'create a lesson plan', 'how do I assess this', 'find research for my lesson', 'differentiate my instruction', 'explain Bloom's taxonomy', 'design a course', 'soạn giáo án', 'phương pháp giảng dạy', 'mục tiêu học tập'.
A comprehensive, evidence-based skill set for teaching design, delivery, and research.
Built on peer-reviewed educational science (Hattie's Visible Learning, The Learning Scientists, Bloom, Vygotsky, Knowles, and more).
| Domain | Reference File |
|---|---|
| Choosing the right teaching method | methods/overview.md |
| Direct Instruction & Explicit Teaching | methods/direct-instruction.md |
| Inquiry-Based & Problem-Based Learning | methods/inquiry-based.md |
| Project-Based Learning (PBL) |
| methods/project-based.md |
| Collaborative & Cooperative Learning | methods/collaborative-learning.md |
| Active Learning Toolkit | methods/active-learning.md |
| Socratic Method & Seminar | methods/socratic-method.md |
| Flipped Classroom | methods/flipped-classroom.md |
| Differentiated Instruction | methods/differentiated-instruction.md |
| High-Impact Learning Strategies | methods/high-impact-strategies.md |
| Learning Theories (foundations) | references/learning-theories.md |
| Audience & Learner Analysis | references/audience-analysis.md |
| Assessment & Feedback | references/assessment.md |
| Finding & Evaluating Research Materials | references/research-materials.md |
| Lesson Plan Frameworks (5E, ADDIE, UbD, Hunter) | lesson-planning/frameworks.md |
| Writing Learning Objectives (Bloom's Taxonomy) | lesson-planning/writing-objectives.md |
| Lesson Plan Templates | lesson-planning/templates.md |
Before choosing a method or writing a plan, answer:
Use this quick selector or see the full method overview:
| Goal | Best Methods |
|---|---|
| Teach new concepts clearly to novices | Direct Instruction |
| Develop critical thinking & problem-solving | Inquiry-Based Learning, Socratic Method |
| Build real-world skills & collaboration | Project-Based Learning |
| Maximize engagement & discussion | Active Learning, Collaborative Learning |
| Free up class time for practice | Flipped Classroom |
| Serve mixed-ability learners | Differentiated Instruction |
| Maximize long-term retention | High-Impact Strategies (Spaced Repetition, Retrieval Practice) |
| Professional/medical/clinical training | Project-Based, Inquiry-Based |
Find, evaluate, and organize teaching materials → Research Materials Guide
Methods ranked by average effect size (d), where d > 0.40 is the "hinge point" of meaningful impact:
| Rank | Strategy | Effect Size (d) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reciprocal Teaching | 0.74 |
| 2 | Feedback (specific, process-level) | 0.73 |
| 3 | Metacognitive strategies | 0.69 |
| 4 | Direct Instruction | 0.60 |
| 5 | Concept mapping | 0.60 |
| 6 | Classroom discussion | 0.82 |
| 7 | Cooperative learning | 0.40–0.55 |
| 8 | Problem-solving teaching (structured inquiry) | 0.61 |
| 9 | Spaced practice | 0.60+ |
| 10 | Open, unguided discovery learning | 0.21 |
"Design a lesson on [topic] for [audience]" → Load audience-analysis.md + frameworks.md + templates.md
"What teaching method should I use for [situation]?" → Load methods/overview.md + relevant method file
"Write learning objectives for [topic]" → Load lesson-planning/writing-objectives.md
"How should I assess [learning goal]?" → Load references/assessment.md
"Find resources/research for teaching [topic]" → Load references/research-materials.md
"Explain [learning theory] and how to apply it" → Load references/learning-theories.md