Teaching Methods and Components Overview

Study Notes

Teaching is a process of facilitating changes in learners.
It involves telling, persuading, showing, demonstration, guiding, and directing learners' efforts.
Teaching is a means of helping individuals learn by imparting knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values.
Teaching is a professional human activity which requires creativity and imagination.

Training: Focuses on shaping behaviour for performing skills.
Conditioning: Training becomes conditioning when it aims less at intelligence, for example, a dog salivating at the sound of a bell.
Instruction: Involves searching for truth and understanding, providing reasoning, evidence, arguments, and justifications.
Indoctrination: Aims at establishing specific beliefs.

Stating Instructional Objectives: Identifying what should be achieved in a teaching situation.
Identifying Content: Specifying the subject matter, its structure, and role in learning.
Method and Technique Selection: Selecting appropriate teaching methods considering learners' nature.
Instructional Resources: Identifying materials suitable for achieving objectives.
Presentation: Actual delivery of content using methods and resources.
Testing and Measurement: Evaluating the extent to which objectives are achieved.
Evaluation: Assessment of the entire learning process.
Feedback: Providing feedback on whether objectives were achieved.

Diagnosing Learner Entry Behavior: Assessing learners' needs, desires, and determining starting points for learning.
Preparing for Teaching: Planning lessons, motivating students, gathering materials, and arranging learning environments.
Guiding Learners in Instruction: Demonstrating skills, presenting information, and supporting learners through the lesson.
Evaluating Learning Outcome: Assessing learners' progress and the effectiveness of instruction.
Follow-up: Providing additional support to fill in learning gaps and expand on concepts.

Respect for each child: Recognizing learners' rights and dignity.
Concern for Learner's Experience: Valuing learners' experiences and activities.
Purpose and Value: Helping students understand the purpose, value, and relevance of learning.
Exploration and Individuality: Encouraging learners to explore, think, and learn in their own way, acknowledging individual differences.
Sharing Experience: Assisting learners to share their experiences, thoughts, and learning.
Educational Logic: Organizing teaching in a logical order.
Evaluating Learning: Regularly monitoring progress, identifying difficulties, and revisiting objectives and procedures.