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Effective Teaching & Learning

Dr. Abida Ahmed

Associate Professor

Department of Physiology

Mymensingh Medical College

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A wise man learns from experience and even wiser man from the experience of others

Plato

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Teaching

Is an Interactive Process as well as Intentional activity which provides opportunity for learning

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Effective teaching

Intellectually demanding Socially challenging A set of skills that can be

Acquired Improved extended

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Effective Teaching….

Systematic Stimulating Encouraging Achieves goal Develops positive attitude Develop & nurture thinking abilities Builds self-directive learner

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Learning

Constructive & active process Takes new information & builds it on existing

knowledge

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Effective learning

Objectives clearly understood Scope of frequent practice Reinforcing correct practice Feedback to identify errors Establishing connections within units of

knowledge

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Schema Theory

Schema activation Existing knowledge structures activated Schema construction New information built on existing knowledge

structure Schema refining Review & summarization

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Tell them What you are going to say

Say itTell them what you have said

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How students learn?

Students adopt two approaches Surface Approach-Learning the words Deep approach-Comprehend the ideas behind

the words

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Surface approach

Teaching session Factual information providing

Examination Requires regurgitation

Adopt surface approach

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Deep approaches

Teaching session Promote Thinking ability

Examinations Problem-solving

Deep approach

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Qualities of Effective Teaching & Learning

•Helps long term retention of knowledge

•Discover knowledge, apply logic & develop new insights

•Able to apply knowledge to solve problems

•Able to communicate one’s knowledge to others

•Characterized by wanting to know more by the students

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Qualities of Effective Teaching & Learning…

Learner should be ready cognitively, emotionally to meet the demands of learning task

There should be a reason for learning Teaching should relate new knowledge to

previous one Learners should be active Teacher student relationship Teachers responsibility Environment should be adequate

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Discover knowledge, apply logic & develop

new insights

Discover something new to learner Perceive relations between old & new knowledge

Trying to put pieces together to apply logic

Create new insights Perceiving relations between new knowledge one’s

own experiences & previous learning developing new insights.

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Able to apply knowledge to solving problems

Putting the pieces of data, information, experience etc. together is necessary to solve problems

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Able to communicate one’s knowledge to others

Communication of knowledge almost always requires spoken & written work & sometimes skills

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Learner should be ready cognitively, emotionally to meet the demands of learning task

Ready ness is an important concept in designing learning programs

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There should be a reason for learningThe better the reason, the better the learning

Emphasizing relevance & applications of learning- encourage learners to engage in high quality learning

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Teaching should relate new knowledge to previous one

Help learner to recover relevant learning experiences from past & build upon it

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Learner should be active during learning

If you tell me, I will forget, If you show me, I might remember, but if you involve me, I will learn.

Chinese proverb

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Teacher Student relationship

Good teacher student relationship is one of the most important factor for effective learning

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Kahlil Jibran

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Teacher’s Responsibility

Not to transfer his knowledge but to prepare students for a never ending search for knowledge