In my country, traditionally, it's been mainly teachers who are responsible for the advance of education in schools, high schools and universities. Now that the trend towards autonomous learning has been reached there are many problems that have shown up. Lack of well-prepared teachers, and lack of skills from students to be self-efficient. I would like to have an idea of the balance of the responsibilities of teaching and learner's aptitudes and attitudes to learn.
You might consider including the teachers in curriculum development, especially when it comes to "autonomous learning" which is a gentle way to say canned curriculum designed by the private sector. This has encouraged a trend to remove teachers from the teaching/learning equation which has the effect of deskilling them. This has also overlaid an expectation of student performance within an "autonomous learning" curriculum that is generalized, is arbitrarily rigors and not grounded in contextual learning.
students and teacher have their own interest and responsibilities. However, It depend on a teacher and student on how they make the lesson interesting. In quality of teaching strategies and responsibilities, let the teacher be motivated to their students. Teacher can do different styles on teaching to captivate students. and for me, it's not about how long the teacher teach the students and follow the prospectus, maybe it is important to finish the lesson as part of their learning. but in terms of quality, "what if" in a class there are mixed I.Q of a students, can teacher proceed to a lesson which is most of the students cannot understand the lesson? therefore, in my opinion, this will be a challenge not a negative thinking to all teachers on how to manage a class with different attitude and discover each other both students and teacher in their aptitude.
You will need to consider the process of teaching and learning.
The teaching-learning process has been recently transformed. The traditional teaching-learning paradigm is linear, outcome driven and it is a teacher focused. However, the new perspective offered a different view of the teaching-learning process. Parse (2004) developed the perspective of “Human becoming paradigm” which focused on what means to be a human. This made the teaching-learning process as a human endeavor (Parse, 2004). In the human becoming paradigm, the individual is recognized as holistic, unitary being and ever changing. The teaching-learning process is a never-ending journey that encompasses of giving-receiving knowing. As per the new paradigm of teaching-learning, the learning is seen as “co-created journey”. Despite the traditional teaching-learning paradigm, learning is viewed as “teaching is telling”. Moving to the new perspective of human becoming paradigm, the teaching-learning process has become bi-directional that focuses on the teacher and learner instead of the teacher designed learning opportunities. This has transformed the role of teaching in this process to be facilitators of learning and that the learning is more student centered. This process has added more creativity to the teaching methods that have become more interactive, cooperative, and integrated various innovative techniques (e-learning, simulation, conceptual teaching and case-based teaching) to facilitate learning and satisfy the learners’ styles and needs. Teaching and learning must go together, one cannot succeed without the success of the other.
Dear Cezar,
This below is some recent research on what makes good pedagogy. It maintains that the quality of teaching is essential to quality learning.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/329746/what-makes-great-pedagogy-nine-claims-from-research.pdf
Hi, to me, Teaching is not only transmitting knowledge to students. It is a guiding to provide learning. So effective teaching (guidance) is necessary to enhance meaningful learning.
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