Description
The course- general methods of teaching comprises the principles and methods used by teachers to enable student learning. These strategies are determined partly on subject matter to be taught and partly by the nature of the learner/prospective teacher. For a particular teaching method to be appropriate and efficient it has to be in relation with the characteristic of the learner/prospective teacher and the type of learning it is supposed to bring about.
This course is an introduction to teaching methods used in primary /elementary and secondary schools.
Because you have been a school student, you will recognize some of these
methods. However, you know them from a student’s perspective rather than from a
teacher’s perspective.
Teaching methods are often divided into two broad categories: teacher-centred methods (also called direct instruction) and learner-centred methods (also called indirect
instruction or inquiry-based learning). An effective teacher knows several methods,
some teacher-directed and others learner-directed. From among these methods, a
teacher selects the one method or combination of methods most likely to achieve a
particular lesson’s objectives with a particular group of students.
Because teaching and learning interact, a course about teaching must also be about
learning. The content and structure of the course is based on two strong claims about
learning. First, learning results from what a student already knows, thinks, and does –
and only from these actions of the student’s mind. A teacher enables students to learn
by influencing what the student does to learn but the student has to do it. Second, as
students progress through school they should learn to become their own teachers.
That is, students should learn how to learn using their teachers as models.
Course Outcomes
By the completion of this course, Student Teachers will be able to do the following:
• Describe and discuss their personal theory of teaching and learning based on a critical analysis of implicit theories formed as Student Teachers.
• Summarize and debate the pros and cons of teacher-centred and learner-centred
teaching methods and state their position as a teacher.
- Teacher: Shahzaib Khalil