Teaching Effectiveness

JFS

The process of engaging students in activities that will enable them to acquire the knowledge, skills, as well as worthwhile values and

attitudes.

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“TEACHING IS BOTH A SCIENCE AND AN ART.”

SCIENCE as it is based on psychological research that identifies “cause and effect

relationship” between teaching and learning; ART, as it shows how those

relationships are implemented in successful and artistic teaching.

Is the greatest of the arts because the medium is the human mind and spirit.

It is difficult to define "effective teaching" -- people with

completely different styles are equally effective. The one thing

that we have learned in research in higher education, is that there is no one best way of teaching.

Guiding Principles in Selection and Use of Teaching

Strategies

1. LEARNING IS AN ACTIVE PROCESS.

As the saying goes:

What I hear, I forget What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand

2. THE MORE SENSES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN LEARNING, THE MORE AND THE BETTER THE

LEARNING.

Make use of visual aids, for more and better learning appeal to all the senses of the learner , if possible.

“Humans are intensely visual animals. The eyes contain nearly 70% of the body’s receptors and send millions of signals along the

optic nerve s to the visual processing centers of the brain..

We take in more information visually than any of the other

senses.” (Wolfe ,2001)

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3. A NON –THREATENING ATMOSPHERE ENHANCES LEARNING

It deals with physical and psychological climate of the classroom Physical – the board, ventilation, proper lighting condition, order and tidiness and painting of the room. Psychological- is an offshoot of our personality as a teacher.

4. EMOTIONS HAS THE POWER TO INCREASE RETENTION AND LEARNING

We tend to remember and learn more those that strike our hearts. Let us add an

emotional touch to learning.

“ Our own experience validates that we remember for a longer time of events that elicit emotion in us.” (Wolfe 2001)

Involve the emotion in learning . Cognitive processing is emotionally charged.

5. LEARNING IS MEANINGFUL WHEN IT IS CONNECTED TO STUDENTS’ EVERYDAY LIFE.

For meaning, connect your teaching to your student’s everyday life.

6. GOOD TEACHING GOES BEYOND RECALL OF INFORMATION.

It is to develop creative and critical thinking. Most teaching are confined to

recall of information and comprehension.

It should reach the levels of application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation to hone

our students’ thinking skills.

7. AN INTEGRATED TEACHING APPROACH IS FAR MORE EFFECTIVE THAN TEACHING ISOLATED BITS OF

INFORMATION. INTELLIGENCE EXAMPLES OF CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

8. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BEST TEACHING METHOD THE ONE THAT

WORKS, THE ONE THAT YIELDS RESULTS.

Reference: Corpuz, Brenda B. 2013. Principles of Teaching 1. Quezon City : Lorimar Publishing, Inc.