I usually enjoy engaging my students in my teaching where they will get the opportunity to check their knowledge on the subject that I have taught them. I usually ask them questions or present them with questions related to the taught subject. I sometimes use the gamification approach in my teaching where students get the chance to learn while competing with their peers in answering questions. This approach has been effective as I have seen how non-engaging students turned out to be more interested in the learning from my teaching.
Also, I enjoy having a one-on-one conversation with any of my students that require more support. I try to get them discuss and open up to me on the areas in my teaching of a subject they are finding difficult to understand. I usually advise most of my students that they can learn programming only if they keep practising with programming exercises; as there is the saying you cannot ride a bicycle unless you learn and practice riding it.
While teaching programming to my students, I ensure they initially learn the purpose for programming and the types of programming (such as Procedural and object-oriented programming). Then, I introduce them to the use of functions and syntax in programming. I also inform my students that there is the need to analyse a given problem or real-life problem to be able to design and develop a solution for the problem. I also revealed to my students how certain algorithms, such as sorting and searching algorithms can be used to order and lookup data.