How to teach well, How can I teach well, Art of Teaching

How can I teach Well?ART OF TEACHING

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Introduction

Objective

Summary

Elaborate

Examples

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Objective

What is teaching?

What is the main objective of teaching?

Who is the teacher?

How can a teacher teach well?

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What is teaching?

Teaching is more than just getting up in

front of a group of students and reading

out of a book or reciting some facts.....

--at least it is if you do it right !!!

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What is teaching? Continued…

It is an Art of imparting skills and knowledge in an effective

manner.

It requires passion to teach.

Having mere knowledge to impart is not enough.

According to Aristotle

“Teaching is the highest form of Understanding”.

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Objective of Teaching

Objective of teaching is to develop the mentality of students

until they get to the point where they can think for themselves

My Opinion

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Who is the Teacher?

What the teacher is ? Is more important than what he/she

teaches.

A good teacher is like a candle

–It consumes itself to light the way for others.

According to William Ward

"The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains,

the superior teacher demonstrates and the great teacher inspires.“

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Pre-requisite

for becoming a good teacher

A teacher should have the ability to understand:

The role of teacher itself

The styles of teaching

Teaching methodologies and strategies

Correct usage of evaluation techniques

The psychology of the students and the ability to motivate

the students

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How to teach Well? [ Key Points]

1. Identify Needs

2. Set Goals

3. Develop Lesson Plans

4. Engage Students

5. Assess Progress

6. Meet Emotional Needs

7. Get Feedback

8. Keep Learning

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1-Identify Needs

Identify crucial academic skills:

Think about what skills your students will need to employ inorder to make it through their lives.

Think about the skills you use as an adult and how you canbuild those skills in your students.

Identify secondary, life-improving skills:

Once the crucial skills have been identified, considersecondary skills which will significantly improve a student’slife.

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1-Identify Needs…

Identify emotional and social skills:

It’s not just academic skills which make people functional

human beings.

Your students will need to develop self-confidence, self-

esteem, healthy ways to cope with stress and

disappointment, as well as way to interact in productive

ways with others.

Consider what techniques you can apply in yourclassroom to help students develop these as well.

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2-Set Goals

Once you’ve identified a few

major skills which your students

will need to succeed in life,

determine some goals based

on those skills.

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3-Develop Lesson Plans

Outline the course to achieve education

goals.

Consider learning styles.

Mix subject matter to build multiple skills.

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4- Engage Students

Use visual adds.

Asks questions.

Employ Activities.

Relate content with practical

life.

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5-Access Progress

Construct well-balanced test

Consider Alternatives to standard test:

Consider educative evaluation, rather than auditive.

Ask your students to devise a real world scenario in which

they would use the skills they’ve learned and ask them to

write a paper or prepare a presentation explaining how

they would handle the situation.

This reinforces their skills and gives them the opportunity to

show that they not only understood the material itself but

that they also understood the significance.

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6-Meet Emotional Needs

Make them feel unique and needed.

Acknowledge and appreciate each student

individually, for the qualities which make

them unique and wonderful human beings.

Encourage those qualities.

You should also make each student feel like

they have something to offer and contribute.

This will raise their confidence and help them

to find their proper path in life

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6-Meet Emotional Needs..(continued)

Recognize their efforts:

Even if students make only occasional, small efforts, thoseefforts need to be acknowledged and appreciated.

Tell them when they’ve done a good job, individually, andmean it.

Don’t be patronizing, be appreciative.

If they’ve worked particularly hard, reward them.

Example:

A student who’s managed to raise their grade from a D to aB+, for example, may have earned the right to pump theirgrade to an A with “extra credit” for the magnificent amountof work that would have been required to accomplish such afeat.

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6-Meet Emotional Needs..(continued)

Give Respect:

It is extremely important to respect your students.

It doesn’t matter if they’re graduate students working on a

doctoral thesis or kindergartners:

treat them like intelligent, capable human beings.

Respect that they have ideas, emotions, and lives that extend

beyond your classroom.

Treat them with dignity and they will extend the same to you

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7-Get Feedback

Ask your students for feedback:

Ask your students for feedback to get their (often very astute)

perception of what’s going right and what’s going wrong in the

classroom.

You can ask them personally or you can create anonymous

questionnaires in order to get their ideas on how things are going.

Ask family members for feedback:

You can ask your students parents for feedback as well.

Maybe they’ve noticed an improvement in their child’s abilities,

confidence level, or social skills.

Maybe they’ve noticed a drop.

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8- Keep Learning

Read up on your craft:

Read the latest journals and papers from conferences to keep up with the

most innovative methods and new ideas regarding technique.

This will help keep you from falling behind in your methods.

Take classes to refresh your skills:

Take classes at a local community college or university to keep your skills

fresh. These will remind you of techniques you’ve forgotten or strategies

that you tend to leave out.

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8- Keep Learning..(continued)

Observe other teachers:

Watch not only those that are known to be good at their craft but also

those that struggle.

Look for why the good things are good and the bad things are bad.

Take no

Reflect:

At the end of a day/lesson/teaching cycle reflect on what you've done

with your class.

What you did best.

What you didn't do well enough and can do better.

What you should not repeat again.

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Conclusion

A great teacher will keep the students wanting to come to the institution

just to see what interesting things they will explore and discover each day.

Students learn best when they are in control of their learning. Students

must do the heavy lifting of learning and nothing the teacher can say or

do will change that.

Real learning requires doing, not listening, or observing only. Yet what do

we find in every public school and university? Teachers talking, talking

and talking while students listen, daydream and doze. We call this lecture.

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Conclusion ..(continued)

Great teachers do not teach. They stack the deck so that students have a

reason to learn and in the process can't help but learn mainly by teaching

themselves. This knowledge then becomes permanent and cherished

rather than illusory and irrelevant.

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