Innovative Methods of Teaching

We think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep sense of gratitude.

We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.

TRADITIONAL METHOD OF TEACHING

• Pre-technology education context, the teacher is the sender or the source.
• The educational material is the information or message.
• The student is the receiver of the information.
• The delivery medium chalk-and- talk” method
• overhead projector (OHP) transparencies.
• In such a lecture students assume a purely passive role and their concentration fades off after 15-20 minutes.

LIMITATIONS

• Teaching in classroom using chalk and talk is “one way flow” of information
• Teachers often continuously talk for an hour without knowing students response and feedback.
• The material presented is only based on lecturer notes and textbooks.
• There is insufficient interaction with students in classroom.
• More emphasis has been given on theory without any practical and real life time situations.
• Learning from memorization but not understanding.

Innovative Methods of Teaching

I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.

- Confucius

MULTIMEDIA LEARNING PROCESS

Ø Text
Ø Images
Ø Audio
Ø Video
Ø Animation

MIND MAP

• Innovative way – Mind Map.
• Developed by Tony Buzan 1960.
• Making notes with keywords and images.
• visual and sensory tools at our disposal.
• Recollect information for long time.

TEACHING WITH SENSE OF HUMOUR

1. Laughter is a natural, universal phenomenon, with beneficial effects, both physical and psychological.

2. Everyone loves a teacher with an infectious sense of humor.
3. Cordial relationship.
4. Ability to relax people and reduce tension.
5. Advertising strategy.
6. Cartoon
7. When there is a willingness to change, there is hope for progress in any field.
8. Students enjoys humor in forms of funny anecdotes

Z TO A APPROACH

This approach attempts to explain the application part of a particular concept first.

Strengths

Ø Makes a particular concept clear

Ø Students develop interest to know exactly the concept.

Ø Creates long lasting memory/correlation of a concept.

Weaknesses

ü Take quite long time for a teacher to introduce a concept

ü Initial difficulty in understanding a particular concept will be encountered.

MNEMMONICS - WORDS- WORDS –WORDS APPROACH

Ø Concept approach.

Ø Associated meaning.

Ø Increase word power

Ø Dictionary.

ROLE PLAYING AND SCENARIO ANALYSIS BASED TEACHING

Role playing

Practical approach

Theory supplemented by practical

TEACHER THE GREATEST INNOVATOR

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

To teach is to learn twice

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating

The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning.

LEARNING NEVER ENDS