Innovative Methods of Teaching

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.
 
  ABSTRACT/PURPOSE
 
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 hear and I forget.
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.
  

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