Several colleagues admit that the involvement of master's students in teaching is an approach that trains future teachers and therefore ensures succession. It seems interesting to me to go to the phase of sharing experience in this area.
Evens Emmanuel ,
I think that the best strategy is research-based learning to involve students. I use this strategy since I began to teach. As the strategy enables students to follow their paths and to apply to some methods for learning to learn, the learning process is to be more effective and meaningful. Especially, when they make connections between the course's subjects and their daily lives, they research and learn easily what they desire. On the other hand, the strategy is too tiring and difficult for lecturers because they must give feedback to students and interest their assignments steadily. The strategy is more suitable for idealistic-minded lecturers. These are my observations about teaching experience up to now.
Teaching in my view is a gift even if it can be taught. Master and PhD students should be definitely involved in teaching as a principle. But for succession maybe selection needs to take place and encourage the gifted ones. Not everyone with knowledge knows how to communicate or transfer it.
Dear colleagues P. Contreras , İlker Dere , Alain Mwamba Mukendi , Sotiris Folinas thank you for contributions.
Greetings! Teaching is a skill that one acquires by practice. The more you do it, the better you get at it. It is also important to learn effective pedagogical tools. For some tips, see my article “Effective Pedagogy for Small Undergraduate Classes” in my profile. An evenly spread out workload throughout the semester is well liked by students. Take care!
to engage students in learning:
We shall begin the lesson showing the benefits of learning a specific course. That really motivates students.
Identify with the students
Make them feel comfortable in the classroom
Ask questions, ask their views, and stimulate discussion and inclusion of everyone’s views
Encourage and motive them when it comes to their research. Research requires open-mindedness hence the teacher/supervisor should encourage this.
Also encourage ‘out of classroom learning’
I also agree that it would be important to provide opportunities for practical experiences so that the student can expand his repertoire of experience. He could be accompanied by a supervisor with whom he can discuss, plan, evaluate and finally talk about the experience. With support he can become more involved and create an identity with the profession. And as being a teacher is a profession, which requires training, he also needs to be paid for it.
I think it is the stimulation that the teacher creates in his classroom is very important to get the attention of his students.
The question is very interesting. For its simplicity when exposing it, but also for its extraordinary hidden complexity.
There is a success model called the Learning Community that is part of the educational success projects recommended by the European Union. I invite you to meet him. https://comunidadesdeaprendizaje.net/investigacion/includ-ed/
For me focus on weakness students to improve interesting students.
I use the asynchronous team debate successfully. This resource shows the strategy and results that I hope can be helpful to you:
Conference Paper Deeper Learning: Developing the Distinctive UWI Graduate's K...
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Debra
Task based approach is very good for involving students in Online education.
In my view, there is no optimal strategy in teaching in general, nor is there an optimal strategy that leads to the involvement of students in teaching, but there are multiple strategies, for example: discovery, furnishings for instrumental enrichment, structural learning, Marzano, educational scaffolding.
Dear colleagues P. Contreras ,İlker Dere , Alain Mwamba Mukendi , Madan Batra, Sotiris Folinas , Joan Nyika , Isam Alkhalifawi , Solomon Mengistie , Sachin Suknunan , Mutasen Z Bani-Fwaz, Agnaldo Arroio , Muntadher Ali , Julio César De Cisneros , Chuthamar Suwanmani , Debra Ferdinand James, Nasser Said Gomaa Abdelrasheed , Abdelkader Mohamed Elsayed thank you very much for your valuable contribution to this discussion which is very relevant.
Evens Emmanuel , let the students experience the learning and teaching activities themselves and let them replicate those (experiences) in the real world for better understanding of life, at large.
I am an MSC student. I always assist in teaching through personal request by lecturers. Some lecturers pay me something from their pockets, others do not. I wish the university paid me just as graduate assistant. But I have gained alot of experience for the last 4 years. I can teach anywhere. It is a good training ground for upcoming lecturers. Thank you.
Samuel Mwendwa I just started like you. So just be patient and keep trying different places you never know your time will come
discussions and peer teaching as i think can makes a difference.
The involvement of students is a matter of interest. I mean the subject should be interesting so the students can find themselves there.
The involvement of students in research should occur naturally: from simple to complex; from elementary laboratory operations to independent work. So he will master all the laboratory skills that will subsequently allow him to do all type of experiments by sighted way. If young researcher discussing "high matters", but not knowing how to weigh the sample, it makes a bad impression on colleagues and he is often very dependent.
From my own experience - when I start synthesis or some kind of experiment myself, it’s very funny to see how the younger colleagues begin to whisper and go “tiptoe”, expecting me to shift part of the routine work to them, and finally they say: “The chef is doing the experiment himself, wow!" In addition, when you know how to do, you are able to understand the mistakes that necessarily occur.
Open interactive discussions with rewarding system is such one effective strategy.
Student engagement is another of those buzz phrases popular in higher education.
1. Enable students to work autonomously, enjoy learning relationships with others, and feel they are competent to achieve their own objectives — “When institutions provide opportunities for students to learn both autonomously and with others, and to develop their sense of competence, students are more likely to be motivated, to engage and succeed.” .
2. Ensure that institutional cultures are welcoming to students from diverse backgrounds — To become engaged, students must feel they are accepted and affirmed. They must feel they belong at an institution.
3. students to develop their social and cultural capital — This kind of capital derives from a sense of belonging, from active relationships with others, and from knowing how things work around the institution. It is especially essential for minority students who need to be successful not only in the classroom but beyond it as well.
To find the teaching techniques or methodologies that increase student involvement, it is worth searching for research that provides evidences. And avoid occurrences, in the sense that the practice that is useful to a teacher, not only depends on the use or management that is made of it, but involves many other variables, such as the social and ecological environment or the ability or the teacher's skill in using these techniques or the leadership or management style of the institutions where they will be developed.
The scientific evidence in education needs to be able to show that said sought implication is achievable in a great majority of cases and that it is correlated with specific teaching practices.
Any teacher can be good if only the results obtained individually are attended to. But involvement is a result that must be able to be systematic and universally sharable.
This is a very good strategy to train masters students for their future profession.As once they are given the clarity of the procedural formalities they can use the same or sometimes better, improved and improvised pedagogical schemes producing good results.Apart from this the peers of trainee teachers invest more interest in the whole activity not only to support their fellow but feel encouraged for their own teaching skills too.
Students involvement in the learning process is beneficial to them. They retain information better when they are given projects and when they are taught inductively.
The best method is the collaboration method where students are allowed to work on their own and autonomous
Yes absolutely correct respected Micheal Olugbenga.But in my personal opinion based upon my experience being involved into the teaching and education field for five years, I guess that the results of independent and individual tasks are more productive than the group work as the former provides more independence to the learners than the later.And on the whole the variation in the ideas becomes expanded in the sense that teachers get as many ideas of having things done on the same topic or the area as many the number of the students.
An intelligent question.Thanks.The morre rewarding strategy is that a teacher should demonstrate an enticing model for his/her students
Dear colleagues Tariq Khan , Samuel Mwendwa , Joan Nyika , د. سليمان رجب الشيخ , Muntadher Ali , Vadim S. Gorshkov , Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak , Rashmi Pramanik , Julio César De Cisneros , Naheed Kausar , Michael Olugbenga , Samy Azer , Aziz Yousif Al-Mattalibi, I very much appreciate your valuable contributions to this discussion. Thank you for everything.
implementing courses using all sorts of student-centered approaches, requesting them to do Action oriented research, initiating them to present what they have in class, above all initiating students to act as a co-teacher through various means is the best option. Stenhouse (1975) once asserted that there is role exchange between a teacher and students in a student -centered classroom. That is, students become co-teachers in some of the cases and a teacher becomes a co-learner at the same time, which I totally share.
Project based learning allows children to be involved in the learning process. They are given a free way to create or research on their own.
What leads to the involvement of any student to any profession? I think the student must "want" to become a teacher to end up in the teaching field. The intrinsically motivated student does not need to be lead into the profession. Student teaching / a teaching internship is where the undergraduate student is able to gain valuable teaching experience for his/her teaching career. This teaching experience can either strengthen the student's conviction in making teaching his/her career or motivate him/her to change their career choice. If a student is in a Graduate level program (Engineering, Accounting, etc.), then odds are they do not have much of an interest in teaching. It's like asking an Art student to get into Actuarial Science.
That being said, if you want to introduce teaching to Graduate students of any academic discipline, then I would first ask the Graduate students what subject area (within their major) they are most interested in. Before a student can focus on Pedagogy, he/she must feel confident about the subject area/topic they are about to teach. So, give the Graduate student the freedom to pick what they want to teach. Next, they should initially teach a much lower course level (Freshman undergraduate courses). Finally, the Graduate level student should spend quite a bit of time planning every aspect of the lesson with his/her Graduate Professor or another student (maybe pair them up with a student in a college of Education). It also may be a good idea for the Graduate student to observe a professor teaching the class the Graduate student is about to step into as well as other professors (for exposure to different teaching styles). Public speaking is very stressful for many, so I would make sure this "project" is graded loosely or carries little weight toward their grade (could be an extra credit assignment) because teaching is not the objective of the course the Graduate level student is currently taking. This would alleviate pressure and allow the student to focus on the teaching experience.
Setting up the Graduate student for success by allowing him/her to pick the subject / topic he/she is going to teach, spending time collaborating with others in planning the lesson, having the opportunity to observe teaching styles of other professors, and not having the pressure of worrying about their grade/performance may lead to a more positive experience for the Graduate level student and possibly becoming interested in the field of teaching.
Dear colleague Solomon Mengistie , thank you for your contribution
ion and the quote from Stenhouse (1975). Personally, I believe that the approach of a student-centered class is very fundamental and relevant. Indeed, we almost all do our teaching learning on the job. The majority of us became teachers without having had the opportunity to follow and master the concepts of pedagogy and other knowledge related to educational sciences. Introducing our students to the teaching profession very early on is perhaps one of the legacies that will be left to us for the future generation.
Dear colleague Michael Olugbenga, thank you for your intervention, and allow me to express my great satisfaction to you.
Your intervention meets the theoretical framework of Freinet pedagogy "Alternative pedagogy developed at the beginning of the 20th century, the Freinet method places students as actors in their learning. It invites them to seek, invent and learn by themselves".
Let me share with you a fundamental trait of the characteristics of Freinet pedagogy "While traditional pedagogy is centered on the transmission of knowledge, Freinet pedagogy places the student at the heart of the educational project. It takes into account the social dimension of the child, destined to become an autonomous, responsible and open to the world ".
Dear colleague Jose Fernandez , your speech is magnificent, enriching and relevant. Its reading and rereading leave me thirsty to offer you the idea of reading it in a much more elaborate context, such as that of an article in a peer reviewed journal or a chapter in a collective book. Thank you for your contribution.
Thank you for the kind words and the vote of confidence toward publishing.
To me, motivation is seminal to keeping the students engaged in a classroom.
Full participation is highly needed. Therefore a trainer or teacher must get involve in the students' / training participants' behavior status. Adjustment as a mellineal, for example.
Evens Emmanuel It is a very good question. In my opinion, on one hand students can be attracted to teaching if material privileges such as salary and living conditions are competitive with other companies,. On the other hand, their teachers must present a good model and a good behavior which incites these students to like teaching.
The lecturer or trainer must therefore have practical experience or at least have had conducting several field research, otherwise the value of passing on a scientifically knowledge is invalid.
Dear Professor Even Emmanuel,
You have got an interesting question here. I am currently working on a project closely related to your question. Find the attached for your perusal and let me know what you think, please.
Dear fellow researchers, Naheed Kausar , Solomon Mengistie,Michael Olugbenga , Jose Fernandez , Tariq Khan ,Ludwig Suparmo , Saliha Boutora ,Olufunbi Adesina , Houda Boumediene your relevant contributions to this discussion are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your contributions.
Dear Prof. Evens Emmanuel ,
Encourage students of mixed abilities to work together by promoting small group or whole class activities.
Through verbally expressing their ideas and responding to others your students will develop their self-confidence, as well as enhance their communication and critical thinking skills which are vital throughout life.
Too, Solving mathematical puzzles, conducting scientific experiments and acting out short drama sketches are just a few examples of how cooperative learning can be incorporated into classroom lessons.
Moreover, Pose thought-provoking questions which inspire your students to think for themselves and become more independent learners.
Evens Emmanuel
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Effective Teaching Strategies For The Classroom
- Visualization. Bring d ull academic concepts to life with visual and practical learning experiences, helping your students to understand how their schooling applies in the real-world. ...
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- Differentiation. ...
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- Professional development.
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- Modeling. After telling students what to do, it's important to show them exactly how to do it. ...
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Educators who use instructional strategies allow students to have the capability to make meaningful connections between concepts learned in class and real-life situations. They offer an opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge and course correct on their own when needed.
I think that we should not adopt ready strategies from each other, because each country has a specificity that is somewhat similar to learning styles.
interactive and reflective teaching learning and as Dellor report 4 pillars i.e.leaning ti do,learning to be, learning to know and learning to live together means allow students to have the capability to make meaningful connections between concepts learned in class and real-life situations.
Have students to reveal current problems facing companies in real time. In groups students must SWOT matrix the case study.
It is my personal view that students who are doing Master degree can be given only a very few classes just to get an exposure of teaching.When I was a undergraduate student at Veterinary College, Mathura, India (1965 to 1969), two students who were doing Master in Veterinary Bacteriology, took few lectures.
Hence, the involvement of Master student in teaching is not a new concept.
Dear fellow researchers your relevant contributions to this discussion are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your contributions.
Dear colleague, Saliha Boutora, thank you for your answer. The first part of your intervention is a goal that is difficult to achieve. Indeed, the higher education and research sector around the world is underpaid. It would be a bit complicated to be able to offer students competitive living conditions in relation to certain economic sectors. However, I align myself with the idea that teachers of higher education should, by their professionalism and the ethics of the profession, be good models to better sensitize students to choose the teaching career.
Dear colleague, Olufunbi Adesina , thank you for sharing your relevant research project. A priori, its first reading highlights the nobility of the teaching profession and the need to draw on several values of universal ethics to ensure the transmission of knowledge. During the holidays, I would like to carry out a peer evaluation of your project and I will do my best to send you my comments. Very cordially.
To liberate learners from the bounds of the classroom instruction towards independence is the major goal of liberatory autonomy approach. Teachers should help learners to take charge of their own learning because autonomy is a matter of the learner's psychological relation to the process and content of learning whereby learners are totally responsible for all the decisions concerned with their own learning and the implementation of those decisions.Overall, the goal should be oriented towards more learner-centered instruction.
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Kind regards.
In order to put students to teaching track:
1) Regular tutorials with presentations.
2) Monthly, quarter, half year & yearly presentations.
3) By involving senior students in tutoring and some teaching to the juniors as well as other teaching assistance e.g., marking, help of weak students etc.
4 ) Encouraging students with teaching & presentation awards.
etc.,
Of course the first thing needed is that the student should have a genuine interest in teaching, otherwise all the methods suggested above becomes mechanical and do not produce much results in the long run.
The best strategy that leads to the involvement of students in teaching is to provide a reading list and discussion questions that will engage them.
Best regards,
Dr. Awode
Dear Olusegun Awode
Thank you for sharing. It is a well-tested effective technique.
I agree with Sir Olusegun Awode statement as simple as that.
Learn students' interests, classroom discussions, design highly relevant learning activities integrate modern technology. Competition among Students etc.
Dear fellow researchers and professors, Reza Biria , Saliha Boutora , Olufunbi Adesina , Hermann Gruenwald , Muhammad Ali , Ranjan Parekh , Olusegun Awode , Madan Batra , Ronald Valledor Gomeseria , Sujan Mahapatra , relevant contributions to this discussion are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your contributions.
By pushing them to do research and to find solutions for real problems.
Starting teaching from the needs and interests of the students is a pivotal point to trigger the students' active participation during the teaching-learning process, and there by make them co-teachers too.
Dear Ahmed Ismail Ebada , I appreciate your contribution to this discussion.
Dear Solomon Mengistie , I appreciate your contribution to this discussion.
Evens Emmanuel
Hello Professor.
There is an advantage of involving students in teaching. They have a bond with the university/ institute/ college as students. When they are given the opportunity to teach there, they feel special. In 2011-14, I was teaching in an IT training institution. I was also the head faculty there. I had selected four students from out of a batch of 25 as teachers. I could see that they felt special when they were given this assignment. They felt even closer to the institute management and their bond with it grew deeper.
However, from out of those four students, two were not satisfied with the amount being paid to them for their job. I was having a difficult time in managing those two students. Their dissatisfaction were growing with the job. I discussed about this with the director of the institute. The director told them that they should see that opportunity to gather some valuable experience of teaching. They should not see that opportunity as a means to earn money. After the session with the director, those two students felt better than before.
I understood that if someone sees that opportunity as the means to earn money then that student should be counseled properly. She/ he has to be shown that how that assignment was taking them closer to their life goals.
This is a strategy that I have followed in a number of cases in the later phases of my life.
Thank you.
Best regards.
Anamitra.
Students participation in the learning process could better be ensured through student-centered learning.
Please follow the link below for an insight into student-centered learning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student-centred_learning
Dear Dr Anamitra Roy, your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your participation to this proposal.
Dear Dr Harasit Kumar Paul , your contribution to this discussion is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your participation to this proposal.
There are several methods that can be used for the participation of students in groups, such as setting up an exam in groups, conducting a work or a workshop, and taking place in groups.
Development of self interest is the first step.
There must be an incentive or driving force initially to generate interest and motivate them significantly to choose it!!
Example of a driving force is a true story of past inventors, a proven success history of nearby people, ambition drives that acquiring a special skill would assure a better future. I am now 79, generation of World War II and keep on learning and conducting management training. Have a read of my website www.zonanyaman.org or follow my LinkedIn. Collaboration is nowadays' motto, aside from my personal brand: Strategic Communication Specialist; "Learning Never Stops".
Make it simple and friendly for them to raise issues on supporting or rejecting a theory by letting them explain/illustrate in a storytelling format.
I suggest reading about critical pedagogy to foster participation and critical thinking in the learning process. One way to apply this approach is to ask about how education could empower people to be critical and become active participants in the development. In this way, the intrinsic role of education goes beyond acquiring literacy skills but also the ability to reflect critically on learning. According to Freire (1998):
If learning to read and write is to constitute an act of knowing, the learners must assume from the beginning the role of creative subjects. It is not a matter of memorizing and repeating given syllables, words, and phrases, but rather of reflecting critically on the process of reading and writing itself, and on the profound significance of language (p. 485).
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