Effective teaching is a matter of choosing strategies best suited to your teaching objectives and your students. Because students vary in the ways that they best learn, it’s often effective to employ a variety of strategies during a particular class and to use a variety of different learning activities and assignments in class. Also consider how you can incorporate universal design for learning strategies to make your class accessible for all your students.
The following links contain general suggestions from the Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) for improving your use of different teaching techniques:
Note that the CTE has hundreds of searchable tip sheets for different aspects of instruction.