What is a teaching method or strategy that is successful in helping students learn a concept in biology?

In my opinion the best way is to get familiar with your students, to follow up there faces and there behavior; it is very important to get there attention..

Sometimes the best methodology to get there attention is to use new technology like prezi, to tell them great and common examples from everyday life; and sometimes everything is in your auditde, didactic ect...

From my experience , the best stratiges for teaching include providing the basic inforation in interactive methods that follow with an extensive paracticals and precentations.

In biology the practicals that related to the topics are made the subjects easy to understand. Also the notes should take care about the quality not quantity.

Multiple methods combined and dynamically applied including didactic, rote, collaboration beyond  an institutional or even departmental level. These may complemented by alternative such as distance learning for diversity , outreach etc 

for learning concepts of biology we use analogy , induction and deduction methods depending on the topic that concept refers to.

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Dear Tala, in education, there is different learning style to teach a subject or a Biology subject. But you cannot chose which a one method and use it as a motivation method for all the students, you must first understands the differences and the needs of the students you teach and record in which fields and activities each one is interested, that help you to be creative by transforming your student interests to a matter of education

for example, suppose that the Biology lesson is about environment disaster such as volcano, twister, earthquake ...you can use movies to explain these lesson because there is some movie that contain the information you plan to teach and you can give the students a worksheet of questions so the student have to get the answer about while watching the movie

  for some lessons (Anatomy or human body), you can use model or move the explication from the classroom to clinic or hospital

for another lessons, like pollution, researches,   posters, science fair, ... can be an effective methods

in simple world, there is many methods and all are important , so you must change, vary and create different ways of teaching that help motivate the students ...