Eleven Key Pieces of Advice for Effective Teaching
This summary provides eleven essential pieces of advice for effective teaching emphasizing student-centered learning. Key points include prioritizing learner engagement over traditional teaching methods, involving students in their own learning processes, and fostering a positive, interactive classroom environment. Effective feedback, varied teaching methods, and the importance of a teacher’s various roles are also highlighted. By focusing on how students learn, teachers can enhance educational outcomes and create memorable experiences that shape responsible, autonomous learners.
Eleven Key Pieces of Advice for Effective Teaching
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Chapter 3 By Lec. Samarnh Pang
Group Test • In your own words, Summarize the eleven pieces of advice about TEACHING. • You shouldn’t write more than 2 lines for each point.
Learning Is More Important than teaching • It’s not about teacher • It’s about learner and learning • It’s not about methodology • It’s about how much students learned
Teach the students, not the book • Primary focus: STUDENT • Secondary focus: Teacher/Textbook • Textbooks are like aids, resources, guides, maps, and crutches.
Involve Students in the Learning Process • Keep Ss awake • Draw connection to Ss • Constantly assess Ss • Involve students in tasks
Don’t tell students what they can tell you • Ss are thinkers
Show your reactions to what students say • Impact of Feedback • Corrective Feedback • Instant feedback • Privacy to correction • Positivity before Negativity
Students need practice, not you • Ss are doing the learning • Give Ss a say to operate their learning • Teachers as facilitators
Vary what you do, and how you do it • Teaching is an art, and is colorful • Be creative and engaging
Select • Clear • Concise • Condense • Precise
Activities and Relationships in the classroom change • A Basic method • Instruction • Patterns of Activities • Questioning and Discussing
Students need to learn how to learn • Teacher as the resource • Discuss over the issues of effective learning • Learning methods
Useful and Fun • Positive environment • It’s Memorable • It’s Engaging and Interactive
A good learner is responsible? • Time manager • Autonomous • Cooperative (S-T, S-M, S-S) • Work Load
Characteristics • Intelligence • Aptitude • Personality • Motivation and Attitudes • Learner preference • Learner beliefs • Age of acquisition
Talking about Teacher What is a teacher?
Do you believe that teaching is about transmitting knowledge?
What is learner-centered teaching? • Why is it useful?
Student Centered Teaching • Maturity • Intuition • Educational skills • Openness to student input • A greater tolerance of uncertainty
The Teacher’s Roles • Why is it essential that a teacher picked up roles?
Controller • When a teacher as a Controller vital?
Organizer • If a teacher is a good organizer, so what?
Assessor • What can a teacher serve for students’ learning?
Prompter • What good does it do?
Participant • Why is essential?
Resource • What can it mean? • How can such a role benefit Ss?
Tutor • What does it mean? • How will it be effective?
Observer • For what?
The Teacher as performer • What can this mean? • What good does it do?
Teacher as teaching aid • Mime effects • Gesture • Language model • Provider of Comprehensible input
Conclusion • How can I become an effective teacher?
