Highlight the principles of effective teaching

Principles of Effective Teaching:

Richard T Walls established four ultimate relationships of effective teaching principles between the teaching process and student learning.

 

The First Principle: Results.

   

1:- Make students aware of where they are going and why?

 

2:- Work hard to achieve clear goals.

 

The Second Principle: Clarity.

 

1:- Making the content as clear and simple as possible.

 

2:- Presenting and conceptualizing new knowledge based on the information and knowledge gained by the students.

 

The Third Principle: Engagement.

1:- Do not lecture for more than 30 minutes before an activity in which all students must be participate.

 

2:- People learn what they do, therefore make the students do practically what you want to teach them.

 

The fourth Principle: Enthusiasm.

   

1:- If you hate teaching, students will hate learning.

 

2:- Motivation is the only key to  success.

 

According to Walls, the knowledge of students can be better, complete and durable when teachers act upon the above four principles

 

The detail of these four principles is as under:

1:- Outcomes:

 The results enable students to focus on academic goals. These results tell students what their destination is and how to get there. The results also provide teachers with a framework based on which course content can be presented. The results enable teachers to improve student learning use assessment as a measure of teaching effectiveness.

 

2:- Clarity:

 

Effective teachers provide full details and explanations of course concepts and content, the following statements illustrate this approach to effective teaching. If a student is not able to learn, one of the reasons is the teaching method

or lack of clarity. The teacher should present the knowledge to the student based on the already acquired knowledge and new concepts should be fully explained.

 

3:- Engagement:

 

The principle is that the student learns by doing. It is necessary for the teacher to nail the educational environment. Effective teaching is one in which students have ample opportunity to practice concepts. Effective teachers adopt such teaching strategies that keep students engaged throughout the lesson.

 

 

4:- Enthusiasm:

 

The highest level of enthusiasm shows the teacher's professional competence, self-confidence, knowledge about the content and his teaching experience.

 

 The teacher also nails the whole educational atmosphere and shows a lot of positive enthusiasm about the subject. He calls the students by their names and engages them in the classroom activities. Ensures their participation and is active among students. The trainee teachers should understand the above mentioned principles and also apply these methods which can make teaching more effective.

 

Approaches to Teaching Effectiveness:

Tharp and Galimore look at teaching effectiveness in three types.

 

1- The Style View:

 

What the teacher does determines instructional effectiveness, let’s illustrate the following statements of instructional effectiveness.

 

i:- An effective teacher warmly demonstrates .

 

ii:- Effective teachers are enthusiastic.

 

iii:- When an effective teacher starts teaching something new, he first gives a general overview of it.

 

iv:- Effective teachers minimize the time they spend standing in front of the classroom.

 

v:- Effective teachers co-construct the edifice of knowledge with students and through student-to-student interaction.

 

vi:- Effective teachers use techniques and methods that are proven by research to be effective.

 

2:- The Outcomes Approach:

 

 

Teaching effectiveness is also determined by student outcomes. The following statements illustrate this point of view as:

 

i:- Teaching effectiveness is determined by the achievement of students.

 

ii:- The effectiveness of teachers can be compared to the achievement of the students they have taught.

 

 iii:- Teaching effectiveness is best compared when values are compared to student achievement.

 

3:- The Inquiry Approach:

Teaching effectiveness is determined with the standard of research on the relationship between teacher practices and student learning. This alternative approach conceptualizes edcational effectiveness in a way that addresses issues raised by style and outcomes approaches. An effective teacher investigates what he did. That is, what was the teaching style? And what was the result in favor of the students? But his work is not limited to this, he also takes corrective measures based on the research findings. Thus, the inquiry model shows two phases of inquiry.

 

First Inquiry:

 

The first inquiry focuses on how teacher actions affect student outcomes—what is happening in the classroom for students? This is the main question about which information and data are collected and analyzed during this research. Along with teaching matters and student learning answers to the questions are sought to clarify the relationship between teaching practices and students learning.

 

 

Second inquiry:

 

The second inquiry focuses on identifying possibilities in which other teachers' experiences and research can help make teaching more effective. These two stages of inquiry enable the teacher to adapt the most effective teaching methods.

 

In short, effective teaching does not depend on the teaching style, nor can it be determined only by the results, but teaching can be made effective only by continuous research on the relationship between the teaching style and the results.