8601 Unit 1, Intro (1) Bvfvfju
8601 Unit 1, Intro (1) Bvfvfju
Teaching
B.Ed Course Code
Unit One
INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING (Unit:1)
OBJECTIVES
After the successful completion of this unit the prospective teachers will be able to:
1. Have a clear understanding of the concept of teaching.
2. Define teaching in more effective terms.
3. Debate on aspects of effective teaching.
4. Specify the personal and professional characteristics for making the teaching more effective.
5. Discuss various ways of effective teaching.
6. Analyze your own teaching against factors of effective teaching.
7. Describe the role of a teacher in making the learning environment more conducive.
8. Analyze your own role as a classroom manager.
9. Compare your teaching methods, strategies, and techniques with model teachers’
Definition of Teaching
Teaching is defined as a process in which students are prepared for learning by
providing initial structure to clarify planned outcomes and indicate derived learning
strategies. The teachers provide sufficient opportunities in the classroom for students
to practice and apply what they are learning and give improvement-oriented feed-back
The teachers provide assistance to enable the students to engage in learning activities
productively.
The teachers provide assistance to enable the students to engage in learning activities
productively.
What is teaching ?
As a Subject matter expert
As a Pedagogical expert
As an Excellent communicator
As a Student-centered mentor
As a Systematic and continual assessor
What is teaching ?
As a Pedagogical expert
Teachers set appropriate learning goals and objectives and communicate them clearly.
They show a positive attitude towards the subject and work to overcome difficulties that
might hindrance in learning. They evaluate and mark students’ work fairly. They guide
students through critical thinking, and problem-solving processes and help them to
develop their own understanding. Teachers provide feedback to students about their
progress in learning.
What is teaching ?
As an Excellent communicator
A Teacher demonstrates effective oral and written communication, good organizational
abilities and planning skills. He/she helps students learn to use effective communication
skills; utilizes teaching tools appropriately and effectively.
As a Student-centered mentor
A Teacher tries to encourage each student to learn through a variety of methods and
encourages student participation. Take his/her students to higher intellectual levels.
What is teaching ?
1. Modeling:
Teacher offers behavior for imitation. Modeling assists learning and gives the learner information and a
remembered image that can serve as a performance standard.
2. Feeding back:
Teacher provides information on the performance of the students. This enables the learners to
compare their performance to the standard, and also allows self-correction.
3. Contingency managing:
Teacher applies the principles of reinforcement and punishment. In this rewards and punishment are
arranged to opt desirable behavior and to avoid the negative behavior.
Students’ Performance Assistance
4. Directing:
Teacher requests specific actions. Directing assists by specifying the
correct response. It provides clarification information and promotes
decision-making.
5. Questioning:
Teacher produces a mental operation that the learner cannot or would
not produce alone. This interaction assists by giving the teacher information about
the learner’s developing understanding.
Students’ Performance Assistance
6. Explaining:
The teacher provides an explanation of the concepts in the content. This assists
learners in organizing and justifying new learning and perceptions.
7. Task structuring:
The teacher organizes a task into different components in a
sequence. The students work on the task. the task structuring involves the
chunking, segregating, and sequencing.
Teaching Assisting Activities
1: K n o w l e d g e
2: Abi l i t i e s
3: M i n d s e t
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING
1: K n o w l e d g e
Discipline/profession-specific knowledge.
General knowledge: fundamental concepts that an educated
person/university
Graduate should have, regardless of area of specialization.
2: Clarity
The effective teachers provide explanations and give details of the course
concepts and content. If students DO NOT LEARN, it means the methods of
delivery may lack the required degree of clarity. So the teacher should make
the message clear from alternate perspectives to alternate senses, the effective
instructional practice of the teacher should afford students the opportunity to
make connections between the new material and the concepts that they have
already been learned.
PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING
3: Engagement
This principle suggests that students learn by doing. Teachers must create an
educational environment that offers students the opportunity to practice every
concept that they are learning. The effective teachers use those instructional
strategies that engage students throughout the lesson.
PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING
4: Enthusiasm
The principle of high level of enthusiasm reflects teacher's
professional competence and confidence, teacher’s subject
m a t t e r knowledge and instructional experience. Teachers
establish a positive learning environment and show their
enthusiasm for the
subject matter. They use student’s names, reinforce student
participation during class, and keep moving among the students.
APPROACHES TO TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
Tharp, and Gallimore, (1991) viewed teaching effectiveness from three perspectives;
the ‘style’ view (how teachers teach), The ‘outcomes’ approach (student result), and The
‘inquiry’ approach (style and outcomes within a framework).
i) The ‘style’ v i e w
“Teaching effectiveness is determined by what the teacher does.” The following
statements illustrate this view of teaching effectiveness:
1. Effective teachers display warmth.
2. Effective teachers are enthusiastic.
3. Effective teachers provide a n overview a t the st art of teaching something
new.
4. Effective teachers minimize the amount of time they are teaching the
whole class from the front (direct instruction).
5. Effective teachers facilitate the joint construction of knowledge through
teacher-
student and student-student conversations.
6. Effective teachers use teaching techniques and approaches t h a t research
has shown to be effective.
APPROACHES TO TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
ii) Th e ‘outcomes’ a p p r o a c h
“Teaching effectiveness is determined by student results.” The
following statements illustrate this view of teaching
effectiveness:
1. Teaching effectiveness is determined by what students
achieve.
2. The comparative effectiveness of teachers is best determined
by comparing the achievements of the students they teach.
3. The comparative effectiveness of teachers is best determined
by comparing the added value they contribute to the achievements
of the students they teach.
APPROACHES TO TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
iii) T h e ‘inquiry’ a p p r o a c h
“Teaching effectiveness is determined by the quality of inquiry into
the relationship between teacher actions and student learning.” This
alternative view conceptualizes teaching effectiveness in a way t h a t
addresses the problems raised in the discussion of style and
outcomes. P u t simply, this approach argues that:
Effective teachers inquire into the relationship between what they
do (style) a nd what happens for students (outcomes). But effective
teachers do more t h a n simply inquire (or reflect) – they take
action (in relation to what they are doing in the classroom) to
improve the outcomes for students and continue to inquire into
the value of these interventions. The inquiry model depicts two
phases of inquiry:
APPROACHES TO TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS
Inquiry 1
This inquiry focuses on the impact of teaching actions on student
outcomes. This inquiry involves the collection and analysis of information
about a key question: “What is happening for students in my classroom?”
and sub-questions t h a t explore the relationship between teaching actions
and student learning.
Inquiry 2
Role Modeling
Mentoring
Signs of Trouble
TEACHER’S ROLES
Teaching Knowledge
The most common role of the teacher in the classroom is to teach
knowledge to children. Teachers are given a curriculum they must
follow t h a t meets state guidelines. This curriculum is followed by the
teacher so t h a t complete knowledge is conveyed to the students in
the given time (academic year). Teachers teach in many ways, such
as lectures, small group activities and hands-on learning activities.
TEACHER’S ROLES
Role Modeling
Students spend a great deal of time with their teacher and their
teacher becomes a
role model to them. This can be a positive or negative effect
depending on the
teacher. Teachers not only teach the children, but also love and
take care for them.
Therefore teachers are respected by the community and become
a role model to students and parents.Unit
TEACHER’S ROLES
Mentoring
Mentoring is a na t ura l role played by the teachers. Mentoring is a
way by which a
teacher encourages students to do the best they can. This
also includes encouraging sudents to enjoy learning.
Listening to students carefully is the pa r t of mentoring.
By taking time to listen to what students say, teachers
impart to
students a sense ofownership in the classroom. This helps
build their confidence and helps them wa nt
to be successful.
TEACHER’S ROLES
Signs of Trouble
As a protector, teacher looks for signs of trouble in the students.
When students'
behaviors change and any sign of physical abuse are noticed,
teachers are required
to look into the problem and solve it as per rules.
CONDUCIVE
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Conducive Classroom Environment
(viii) While instructing, ensure physical closeness with all the students by
roaming around the class.
(ix) Avoid labeling the students with negative adjectives, which are likely to
lower their self-esteem. Labeling influences teachers’ quality of interaction with
the students, which further influences students’ expectations and actions
negatively.
(x) Describe the behavior of the misbehaving student, not characterize the
student. Instead of saying, “you are rude” say “your comment was rude”. By
criticizing the personality of the students, he is less likely to change his behavior.
(xi) Increase the “engaged time” by keeping the students involved in the learning
tasks through, wittiness, overlapping, smooth transitions and group focus.
Teaching Principles for Conducive Classroom
(xi) Increase the “engaged time” by keeping the students involved in the learning tasks through,
wittiness, overlapping, smooth transitions and group focus.
(xii) Teach role and routines to the younger students in academic fashion with a lot of
explanation, examples and practices during initial classes.
(xiii) Develop a set of few general classroom rules applicable to variety of situations. These rules
should be displayed in the class.
(xiv) Be assertive, rather than passive or aggressive, in enforcing discipline. Apply the rule
forcefully fairly, consistently, and calmly.
(xv) Create a business like climate in the classroom, where students understand that they and the
teacher have a commonly shared goal of accomplishing such activities that promote learning, (Arif,
2003). In order to handle misbehaving students, the following suggestions may prove helpful:
How to Handle Misbehaving Student?
Deal with the present, current problem immediately, not with the past
instances of the student misbehavior.
Talk to the student directly, instead of talking about him with others.
Don’t be harsh and provoked. Stay calm and address firmly. Anger, empty
threats and physical handling must be avoided.
If the student is hostile, the teacher can diffuse his hostility by responding with
softly, calm, and soothing tone. The feeling of the students must be acknowledged
in order to calm him down.
Redefining the Role of the Teacher
From the modern perspectives of the technical world, instruction not only
consists of primarily lecturing to students, but offers every child a rich, rewarding,
and unique learning experience. Students are no more required to sit in rows at
desks and dutifully listen and record whatever they hear. Now they are more
active and need to participate in the teaching and learning process by sharing
knowledge with their peers and teachers. The educational environment has now
been extended from the classroom to the home and the community and even
around the whole world. Information is also not only bound to specific textbooks
but it is available everywhere.
Redefining the Role of the Teacher
Schools are the centers of lifelong learning. In this changing era teaching has
been taken as one of the most challenging and respected careers because the
whole of our nation’s social, cultural, and economic health depends on it. Hence
every part of the teaching process and the role of the teachers should be
reconsidered such as teacher students relationships, teaching tools and
techniques, rights and responsibilities of teachers, the form and content of the
curriculum, standards of assessment, preparation, and professional
development of teachers and structure of the schools as a working
environment. So that teachers themselves and their occupation better serve
schools and students.
New Relationships and Practices
This new relationship between teachers and students will take the form of a
different concept of instruction It has been discovered that new teaching
methodologies such as project-based, participatory techniques, educational
adventures, etc. can make the students participants in the instructional process.
Furthermore;
The curriculum must relate to the student’s daily lives,
The provided learning activities in the classroom must engage the students’
abilities at their best, and
The assessment must measure real achievements and be an integral part of
learning.
New Relationships and Practices
New technology is the most powerful force that is changing the role of teachers
and students in education. The teachers are no more the primary information
providers. The fundamental job of teaching has been shifted from distributing
facts to helping children learn how to use the knowledge of facts by developing
their abilities to think critically, solve problems, make informed judgments, and
create knowledge that benefits both the students and society.
Team teaching
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Elementary school teachers need the following characteristics:
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• A genuine interest in children and respect for their individuality
• The ability to sense children's individual needs
• The ability to be creative, imaginative, patient, energetic, organized and
resourceful
• The ability to establish rapport between children and parents
• Strong leadership and teamwork skills and a good sense of humor
• A high level of dedication to work which often impacts personal lifestyle choices
• A clear, pleasant speaking voice and the ability to convey confidence
• Positive conflict resolution skills and the ability to handle stress well.
Characteristics of an Effective Teacher
• Fairness
• Positive Attitude
• Preparedness
• Personal Touch
• Sense of Humor
• Creativity
• Willingness to Admit Mistakes
• Forgiving
• Respect
• High expectations
• Compassion
• Sense of Belonging
Teacher’s characteristics from the administrator’s point of view:
• Exhibit enthusiasm
• Know your content
• Be organized
• Teach actively
• Show a good attitude
• Establish successful classroom management
• Pace instruction
• Maintain good people skills
• Communicative
• Question effectively
• Be flexible
Professional Qualities
• Collaboration
• Honesty and Integrity
• Respect
• Commitment to Learning
• Emotional Maturity
• Leadership and Responsibility
THE CONCEPT OF TEACHING METHODOLOGIES, STRATEGIES &TECHNIQUES
• Brainstorming
• Problem-Solving Method
• Cooperative Learning Technique
• New themes in teaching
• Individual Learning Needs
• Level of Intelligence and Prior knowledge
• Career Counseling