Teaching Methods : Teaching And Learning

Students have their own best way in effectively learning the lesson. With the diversity of students, the problem is each student has a preferred learning style. It becomes undeniably one of the reasons that make it difficult to achieve the best expected outcome out of teachers’ effort. However, teachers try to incorporate various teaching techniques to make every learning opportunity become productive, meaningful, and relevant for the learners.

A driving objective for a teacher is to affect students to advance their expertise in education by finding them the correct course. The teacher should promote positive motivation and inspiration by adhering to legislation and codes of practice which will increase every student’s focus in developing and bridging gaps to display eagerness towards a healthy broad mindset, creative thinking and brighter approach. A mentor should coordinate assessments which will reinforce the ability to perceive individuals’ abilities and knowledge progressions and moreover support them further to boost their learning capacity to acquire a well-established national standards skill set.

In truth, you cannot be reminded too many times about good teaching practices, passion for education, and the need for constant reflection and

We tend to teach as we were taught or we adopt the teaching methodology of the

Moreover, every student has a different style by which they learn. Every student has a different way in which they can better

Teaching requires a combination of both the subject knowledge and an understanding of effective practice for it to be effective within the classroom. From my own experience out on the school serial days, one of the main things I noticed was that teaching involved a whole lot more than just teaching the curriculum to the pupils. All students have different methods of learning and within the classroom there is a wide range of abilities. So it is the teacher’s responsibility to ensure that all students are given the opportunity to reach their full potential, in order for them to be truly effective practitioners.

However in the teacher centered approaches do not give much attention to the learners needs. The teacher carries out the lesson as a lecture and there is not much interaction between the two parties and the students remain as passive recipients of the knowledge (Kavanoz,

The module was delivered through a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials videos, discussions, observations and the VLE ‘Moodle’. The approach to the teaching and learning methods employed was that of active learning, catering to different learning styles. An awareness of different learning styles can help teachers to sustain motivation by encouraging and facilitating pupils’ use of preferred styles but also providing support when using alternative approaches (Highland Council Education, 2010; Honey and Mumford, 1986, cited in McGill and Beaty, 1995). Active participation by the student group was encouraged throughout by myself, as their tutor.

As a teacher, one’s role and responsibility should be towards the learners’ ability to learn and for learning to be as tailored made for the individual learner.

Using different method, strategies and conditions in teaching has become very often and vital because

Before following this module, I will not deny the fact that I have always believed in traditional teaching, whereby the teacher is the one who controls the learning environment and students were simply ‘knowledge holes’ that need to be filled with information. In other words, I used to believe that it is the teachers that cause learning to take place (Novak, 1998). However, during the running of this module, I have been given the opportunity to reflect on different aspects of teaching and learning.

“The challenge will force educators to rethink their current approaches to teaching.” (Elias.T, 2011) If the teachers have to rethink their ways of teaching, a students can also give voice to their concerns about how they are taught. At the end of the day, the students are the ones that will benefit most from the changes to their education system. This can give the teacher opportunities to have varieties of lessons ranging from lectures to group presentations, ensuring that the pupils have a chance to learn in most possible ways, finding what works best for them individually. However, in order for this to be successful, intensive research must be carried out. This research needed can become very expensive and lengthy, causing many people to wonder why they are bothering at all. Nevertheless, in the long run, all the demanding research will have greater benefits in the long run.

According to Hammond, Rosso, Austin, Orcutt and Martin (N.D.),New ideas about learning and teaching have always permeated education. During my time in school, I have read numerous books and articals on learning theories but Berkely’s article lends another layer of knowledge about learning. As I read Berkeley (n.d.), I knew but did not know, if that makes sense, about the myiads of reforms to improve on the way teachers teach and students learn. However, what sticks out the most is students learning success is based on how teachers align the process with learning so they are compatible. I may be wrong, but I do not feel 21st century methods of teaching embraces this. I do not believe that the process mentioned in Berkeley of teaching and learning is remotely placed as a standard of learning. I believe many of the methods today have made learning difficult and unnatural. Today’s teachers no longer are allowed to organize their teaching environment as they see fit, but must follow printed out rules of how to do this. They do not have the leeway of yester year to communicate their knowledge and information thorugh creative activities they have planned based on their class makeup. According to Hammond, Rosso, Austin, Orcutt, & Martin (N.D.) Learning with understanding is more likely to occur when students are helped to see how concepts are related. Teachers can skillfully choose examples, analogies, and diagrams to make material meaningful to students and to address common

Unfortunately, these traditional methods of learning are not always indicative of modern, dynamic education. More modern learning techniques provide students with a far more interactive experience. In one such method, students combine the first and third aforementioned traditional study methods. Students

    The goal of  each learner, time for learning(how much time they take for leaning), and the learning process( how they are taught and the progress of learning) are different in L2 and FL learning each other.