I learn daily from my students. I hope my open-mindness in tutorials will enhance their study and promote best collaborative communication.The future belongs to my brilliant minded students!

I use a combination of Flipped Classroom, Gamification and Problem- based Learning for my teaching.

I learn daily from my students. I hope my open-mindness in tutorials will enhance their study and promote best collaborative communication.The future belongs to my brilliant minded students!

Problem-based Learning is one most effective instructional method I have used

Challenge myself and my students to do our best. I still use mental ability rather than just computers and technological innovations to teach concepts to enlighten and inspire my students.

action & reaction with my students

I prioritize the involvement of students to discuss actual problems with the insights of scientific theories. This method was implemented by Student Centered Learning (SCL) model.

Brainstorming and commenting are an instructional method of asking questions, receiving responses from students, recording participants on board, and arranging information from students' answers as reactions. This type of education works to fix information in the student's mind, the teacher also measures the extent to which the student is confused with the educational material.

Active learning is the most effective instructional method I have used.

Collaborative, jig-saw and discussion methods have been best approaches that have worked best for me in helping learners discover knowledge.

Interactive class is my style and it is never boring. Everybody is allowed to participate.

Good lesson planning is essential to the process of teaching and learning.

This particular list of teaching characteristics appears in an excellent book that is all but unknown in the states, Learning to Teach in Higher Education, by noted scholar Paul Ramsden. In the case of what makes teaching effective, he writes, “…a great deal is known about the characteristics of effective university teaching. It is undoubtedly a complicated matter; there is no indication of one ‘best way,’ but our understanding of its essential nature is both broad and deep.” (p. 88-89). He organizes that essential knowledge into these six principles, unique for the way he relates them to students’ experiences.

1: Interest and explanation – “When our interest is aroused in something, whether it is an academic subject or a hobby, we enjoy working hard at it. We come to feel that we can in some way own it and use it to make sense of the world around us.” (p. 98). Coupled with the need to establish the relevance of content, instructors need to craft explanations that enable students to understand the material. This involves knowing what students understand and then forging connections between what is known and what is new.

2: Concern and respect for students and student learning – Ramsden starts with the negative about which he is assertive and unequivocal. “Truly awful teaching in higher education is most often revealed by a sheer lack of interest in and compassion for students and student learning. It repeatedly displays the classic symptom of making a subject seem more demanding than it actually is. Some people may get pleasure from this kind of masquerade. They are teaching very badly if they do. Good teaching is nothing to do with making things hard. It is nothing to do with frightening students. It is everything to do with benevolence and humility; it always tries to help students feel that a subject can be mastered; it encourages them to try things out for themselves and succeed at something quickly.” (p. 98)

3: Appropriate assessment and feedback – This principle involves using a variety of assessment techniques and allowing students to demonstrate their mastery of the material in different ways. It avoids those assessment methods that encourage students to memorize and regurgitate. It recognizes the power of feedback to motivate more effort to learn.

4: Clear goals and intellectual challenge – Effective teachers set high standards for students. They also articulate clear goals. Students should know up front what they will learn and what they will be expected to do with what they know.

5: Independence, control and active engagement – “Good teaching fosters [a] sense of student control over learning and interest in the subject matter.” (p. 100). Good teachers create learning tasks appropriate to the student’s level of understanding. They also recognize the uniqueness of individual learners and avoid the temptation to impose “mass production” standards that treat all learners as if they were exactly the same. “It is worth stressing that we know that students who experience teaching of the kind that permits control by the learner not only learn better, but that they enjoy learning more.” (p. 102)

6: Learning from students – “Effective teaching refuses to take its effect on students for granted. It sees the relation between teaching and learning as problematic, uncertain and relative. Good teaching is open to change: it involves constantly trying to find out what the effects of instruction are on learning, and modifying the instruction in the light of the evidence collected.” (p. 102)

Reference: Ramsden, P. (1992). Learning to Teach in Higher Education. New York: Routledge.

Interactive learning method.

Good teaching contain all your knowledge and experience with smart methods to attract students.

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My educational method is not the Teaching

My methods to promote meaningful learning are:

• Dialogical and horizontal human communication
• The teacher-student relationship in a human communication model
• Learn the method to learn to learn, learn in a meaningful way and for a lifetime
• Team work in projects
• Critical reading of texts and contexts
• Individual research and project teams
• Application of the theory in analogous practices and equivalent practices.

regards

Jose Luis

Mi método educativo no es la Enseñanza

Mis métodos para promover el aprendizaje significativo son:

• La comunicación humana dialógica y horizontal
• La relación profesor-alumno en un modelo de comunicación humana
• Aprender el método para aprender a aprender, aprender en forma significativa y para toda la vida
• Trabajo en equipo en proyectos
• Lectura crítica de textos y contextos
• Investigación individual y en equipos de proyectos
• Aplicación de la teoría en prácticas análogas y prácticas equivalentes.

Saludos

José Luis

In my 36 years of career at universities (plus 3 years at schools), my main concern has been on carrying out my teaching duties honestly in the best possible manner. I have never ever waited for promotion into a higher title or position.

Many educational systems do not reward successful teaching actually & they only place emphasis on research of whatever quality & in whatever way it has been done. The decline in the quality of graduates can be attributed to this emphasis.

A successful method of teaching will rely upon engaging the interests of students in what they are learning after knowing the value of the subjects that are under study. Each lecture has to be an attractive one.

A lecturer can know if s/he has been successful from the students particularly those who have graduated years ago & have become more mature in their judgment. When you meet "frequently" an old graduate who says to you that I am proud that you have taught me in the year(s) so & so, I have received useful knowledge from you and I am grateful to you, then you have been really successful.

Using technology is good, but the essence of teaching lies still on the basics.

https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Rosenshine.pdf

Hello,

We are now leaving in the post method era where other factors rather than the method have a great bearing on the teaching and learning processes. As such, focusing on social proxis and learner-centeredness, teachers should prepare the ground for students' full participation in classroom activities by recognizing their real needs and purposes as well as designing collaborative tasks engaging learners actively in the process of learning .

Best regards,

R. Biria

Interactive class..

With the help of creative tools to stimulate creativity. Include playful games or forms of visual exercises that will excite the young minds and capture their interest.

Incorporating audio-visual materials in your sessions. Supplement textbooks with models, filmstrips, movies and pictorial material.

Linkingr lessons to real world learning. Infusing real world experiences into your instructions will make teaching moments fresh and enrich classroom learning.

Making time for brainstorming sessions into classrooms. These sessions are a great way to get the creative juices flowing.

Some lessons are best learnt, when they are taught outside of the classroom. Organizing field trips that are relevant to the lessons outside of the classroom.

Teaching through role play is a great way to make students step out of their comfort zone and develop their interpersonal skills. 

A classroom environment that is well-decorated, fun, and engaging will help stimulate a student’s mind and will help think and learn better. 

An open- minded attitude can help innovating new teaching methods. Though open- minded, sometimes most of us show reluctance to new ideas.

As everyone knows, the end result of collaborative efforts is always immense. Think about spending some quality time with your colleagues. Ask them to share their views on improving teaching methods, you can see many of them come up with interesting strategies. So, collaborate and introduce innovative teaching methods.

You can give your best only if you truly love what you do. You will be more creative and inspired when you are not stressed. Loving your work keep you relaxed and give you room to experiment new ideas.

In my experience, the best feedback from students come when teaching methods are as much practical and visual as possible: by basing lectures on images, schemes and short movies, bringing in classroom real objects related to the lesson, and working in laboratory.

Dear Dr. Ahmad Alrawashdeh,

A process syllabus provides an alternate to the classical role of teacher as an authoritarian one who is the source of knowledge in classroom and makes a determination interrelated to classroom setting. In a process syllabus, teachers in preliminary programs can specify their classroom plan such as the time of activity, the sort of exercises, and assessment components with their own learners. Subsequently, these instructors may have a further guiding and supporting role which is the optimal role of teacher in the conventional pedagogy. The negotiation syllabus can aid the instructor in becoming an expert at recognizing the students who they have just met and so they become more alert about the needs, wants and lacks of their learners. In endorsing these demands, teachers organize the tasks, activities, supplementary materials that will indubitably fascinate the learners. Such materials are hugely dependent on the pedagogical skill of the teachers and the manner in which they use manipulative skills to teach them. Materials pose a comprehension and contextual threat to the learners if the teachers and school administration fail to use the skill of judging their appropriacy for classroom use. Accordingly, continuous feedback system from learners is a major source to ensure the sustainability and likability of materials.

For teaching generally for school students he finds in his observation the approach & behavior of the student regarding the interest ,taken by him in their study program & after the observation of teachers for certain students if he finds that such student required a help for their study such teacher should call them after the study period & should take interest in their study program offer them a guideline for inspiration,for reading methods & such other which may help the student to take a keen interest to their study .

With this a teacher also may feel his contribution for the students .

This is my personal opinion

I agree with the answers of the RG members especially Adriana Santos-Caballero and Surender Singh. I am going to list some of them: brainstorming session, outline the lesson topics in the beginning of the class, interactive class, feedback, employ the required tools, and Sum up the lesson at the end of the class.

All the best,

I received an e-mail now which includes this meaningful sentence which I like to share it with you: Success is not about making money. It is about making positive difference in people's lives.

I think it sums it all with regard to our dear students. As teachers, we are the prime catalysts in making positive difference in their lives & they may also reciprocate to us.

At the time of teaching, first we will involve in the minds of students, how they feel and then I will continue teaching.

I am teaching quantum chemistry on my research subject.

When explaining quantum cemical law and the derivation of equations that seems to be extremely difficult for students to understand, I always talking in detail about story of chemical history related to law and equations.

A few years later, I hear that graduates always remember the derivation of equations and law from the memories of interesting chemical history.

Ad I am medical teacher , my students are adult learners . So I always prefer interactive large group or small group teaching . Every time it works.

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My best method in teaching is to use many techniques and methods that meet the individual differences between my students. There is not one method but there is suitable method for students. Teacher can use many methods and techniques according to the aim of the lesson or topic, the nature of the topic, and the students characteristics. There are many types of students: Visual, hearing and sensory> Every type of them need specific methods> Therefore the teacher must know the types of his students to select the suitable method to teach them.

best regards

Nasser

Before being a teacher, remember that you are human and those in front of you are not your enemy. Look at them in the eye and make them feel that you care. Trust, my friend, is the keystone of success in education. Then, you could play with methods.

Good question and informative answers Thank you all!

Don't be always the same evey year . The students of each year teaches you something different . Analyze yourself and like that .