Factors for Effective Teaching
A good
teacher does
not necessarily mean that he is always doing well all the time. More often, good teachers do mistakes also. In
connection to the above quote, I believe that good teachers commit mistakes but
like most of the other teachers, but the only difference is that good teachers never cease to try
doing things to improve his or her teaching and to avoid committing the same
mistakes all the time. In connection to this also, I came across an
article by Philip Gurney entitled, “Five Factors for Effective Teaching”. The
author enumerated the following factors for effective teaching:
§ Teacher knowledge,
enthusiasm and responsibility for learning.
§ Classroom
activities that encourage learning.
§ Assessment activities
that encourage learning through experience.
§ Effective feedback
that establishes the learning processes in the classroom.
§ Effective interaction
between the teacher and the students, creating an environment that respects,
encourages and stimulates learning through experience.
Generally, all of us in education are aware
that we need good teachers to do good teaching in
a good learning environment. It is therefore important to find out what are the
characteristics of a good teacher for us to set a
standard in developing future teachers. With this in mind, we also need to know
the characteristics of a good teaching. This is very important in order for us
to have a more or less an objective view of good teaching. Moreover, the way we
qualify good teaching is very complicated. First, we need to agree on which
point of view we are looking, and what lens should we use in order to come up
with the right magnification of good teaching. Lastly, we need a good environment
that is conducive for effective teaching and learning.
Experienced teachers
would have different biases on what is good teaching, good learning
environment, and good teacher. But I believe, we do not just
encapsulate the qualities of good teacher and a good teaching in
a good learning environment, but we need see the connections and relations among
these three and how they are intertwined to result to an effective teaching and
learning.
Reference
Web Quest. Retrieved on May 7, 2013, from
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