What is Good Teaching
What is Good Teaching?
What is Teaching?
As teachers we may find this bald question strangely difficult to answer.
It’s just what we do, in lectures, classes, seminars, workshops, tutorials, others.
We study literary text and movements, theoretical and critical works, performances and so forth.
We analyze and discuss them with our students.
We try to help our students become better at expressing their thoughts, ideas, and feelings verbally, creatively.
What is Good Teaching?
Aims/Objectives:
Bring about learning
To signal what is to be learnt To be intelligible to the students and within their capacities To engage or extend their enthusiasm for the subject To encourage critical and independent thinking
Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice
1. Good practice encourages interaction between students and faculty. Frequent student-faculty contact in and out of class is a most important factor in student motivation and involvement. Faculty concern helps students get through rough times and keep on working. It also enhances students' intellectual commitment and encourages them to think about their own values and plans.
2. Good practice encourages interaction and collaboration between students. Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort than a solo race. Good learning, like good work, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated. Working with others often increases involvement in learning. Sharing one's ideas and responding to others improves thinking and deepens understanding.
3. Good practice uses active learning techniques. Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write reflectively about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what the learn part of themselves.
4. Good practice gives
What is Teaching?
As teachers we may find this bald question strangely difficult to answer.
It’s just what we do, in lectures, classes, seminars, workshops, tutorials, others.
We study literary text and movements, theoretical and critical works, performances and so forth.
We analyze and discuss them with our students.
We try to help our students become better at expressing their thoughts, ideas, and feelings verbally, creatively.
What is Good Teaching?
Aims/Objectives:
Bring about learning
To signal what is to be learnt To be intelligible to the students and within their capacities To engage or extend their enthusiasm for the subject To encourage critical and independent thinking
Seven Principles of Good Teaching Practice
1. Good practice encourages interaction between students and faculty. Frequent student-faculty contact in and out of class is a most important factor in student motivation and involvement. Faculty concern helps students get through rough times and keep on working. It also enhances students' intellectual commitment and encourages them to think about their own values and plans.
2. Good practice encourages interaction and collaboration between students. Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort than a solo race. Good learning, like good work, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated. Working with others often increases involvement in learning. Sharing one's ideas and responding to others improves thinking and deepens understanding.
3. Good practice uses active learning techniques. Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write reflectively about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives. They must make what the learn part of themselves.
4. Good practice gives