Innovative Methods of Teaching
We
think of the effective teachers we have had over the years with a sense of
recognition, but those who have touched our humanity we remember with a deep
sense of gratitude.
Dr.V.S.Damodharan and
Mr.V.Rengarajan
Faculty, Business Studies Department,
Higher College of Technology
Sultanate of Oman
We think too much about effective methods of teaching and not
enough about effective methods of learning.
Evaluate
traditional methods of teaching
as well as multimedia teaching methods
Teaching
must include two major
components sending and receiving
information
Any
communication methods that serve
this purpose without destroying the
objective
could be considered as
innovative methods of teaching.
Benefits
of innovative methods
Improve Learning process
Strengthen governance
IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION
All religions attaches great importance to
knowledge and education.
When the Qur'an began to be revealed, the
first word of its first verse was 'Iqra' that is,
read.
A scholar (alim) is accorded great respect in
the hadith.
“Education is the
manifestation of perfection
already in man” – (Swami Vivekananda)
They are not students of our
generation,
where they sit down and listen. I think things
have changed now;
they want to explore, cut
and paste.
ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL METHOD OF TEACHING
Pre-technology education context, the teacher is the sender
or the source.
The
educational material is the information or message.
The
student is the receiver of the information.
The
delivery medium
chalk-and- talk” method
overhead projector (OHP) transparencies.
In
such a lecture students assume a purely passive role and their concentration
fades off after 15-20 minutes.
LIMITATIONS
Teaching in classroom using chalk and
talk is “one way flow” of information
Teachers often continuously talk for an
hour without knowing students response
and feedback.
The material presented is only based on
lecturer notes and textbooks.
There is insufficient interaction with
students in classroom.
More emphasis has been given on theory
without any practical and real life time situations.
Learning from memorization but not
understanding.
Innovative Methods of Teaching
I see and I believe.
I do and I understand
Confucius
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.- Winston Churchill
MULTIMEDIA LEARNING PROCESS
Text
Images
Audio
Video
Animation
TRADITIONAL AND MULTIMEDIA LEARNING
TRADITIONAL
METHOD – A ONE WAY FLOW
TEACHER-------->STUDENNTS
MULTIMEDIA
LEARNING – AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING PROCESS
MIND MAP
Innovative
way – Mind Map.
Developed
by Tony Buzan 1960.
Making
notes with keywords and images.
visual
and sensory tools at our disposal.
Recollect
information for long time.
AN EXAMPLE OF MIND MAP FOR SCALAR QUANTITIES
TEACHING WITH SENSE OF HUMOUR
Laughter
is a natural, universal phenomenon,
with beneficial effects, both physical
and
psychological.
Everyone loves a teacher with an
infectious
sense of humor.
Cordial relationship.
Ability to relax people and reduce
tension.
Advertising strategy.
Cartoon
When there is a willingness to change,
there is hope for
progress in any field.
Students enjoys humor in forms of funny
anecdotes
Z TO A
APPROACH
This approach attempts to explain the
application part of a
particular concept
first.
Strengths
Makes a particular concept clear
Students develop interest to know
exactly the concept.
Creates long lasting
memory/correlation of a concept.
Weaknesses
Take quite long time for a teacher
to introduce a concept
Initial difficulty in understanding a
particular concept will
be
encountered.
LEANING
TOWER OF PISA
EXPERIMENT – EXAMPLE TO Z
– A
APPROACH
Concept
Simulation - reenacts Galileo's experiment of two different objects falling at
the same rate.
