Effective
Teaching
1. Purposeful
2. Integrative
3. Values based
4. Challenging
5. active & practice oriented
6. quality oriented
1. Purposeful
- meaningful
- worth learning
- relevant for real life
- with potential for application
2.Integrative
- all aspects of the whole life
- physical, intellectual,
emotional, social,
spiritual, etc.
- ensuring integration of
knowledge and values
with action and application
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Essential factors for effective teaching / learning
3. Values based
- making good human beings
- practicing human values
ethical dimensions
character development
4. Challenging
to teachers – to update knowledge
- to hone their skills
- to meet the increasing
expectations
to students –
- to thoughtfully examine the
relevance of what they are studying
- to participate in cooperative
learning activities
- to engage assertively in group
discussions
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5. Active
to teachers
- to adjust according to changing
needs
- to take advantage of unfolding
events
- to emphasize on practical
orientation – providing hands-on
activities
Since, knowledge, skills and wisdom
– are not to be treated as static and
passive, but as active and dynamic –
- making plans, choices,
adjustments, appropriate
evaluation,
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6. Quality standards
standards – benchmarks – to ensure
authentic teaching and learning –
achievement orientation
What is effectiveness ?
Doing RIGHT THINGS
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Efficiency requires Innovation requires
stable routines creativity & new ideas
⇒ ⇒
Stable & controlled Loose & flexible
environment environment
Creativity in
Effective
Effectiveness Effective
Teaching
requires Teaching
requires
requires
?
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Blending discipline and creativity
- Charla Mingus