Quality of education based upon
how we identify effective teachers
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Contents
Introduction
Part I: Education Myths
1. Myths toward Effective Teaching
2. Myths toward the Lecture Method
Part II: Effective Ways of Teaching
1. Structure of Instructional Continuum
2. Knowing Students' Background
3. Setting up Objectives
4. Psychological Security for Students' Leaning Environment
5. Advantages of Teacher Questions
6. Outcomes of the Grouping Process
7. Elements of Effective Instruction
Part III: Making Curricula and Performing Assessments
1. John Goodlad's Five Levels of Curriculum
2. Elliot Eisner's Three Levels of Curriculum
3. Assessment of Three Main Domains
Part IV: Conclusions and Discussions
Reference
What do students really want for the university education?
4. Psychological Security for Students' Leaning Environment
Psychological security of learning is also important for effective teaching. Challenging situation
needs to raise students' ability sometimes. However, only stressful environment does not make students
learn efficiently. Namely, stress and difficulty should go along with encouragement and incentive.
This is the definition of the security here. This must be managed by the instructor
based upon accomplishing class objectives, such as improving students skills. Let us list the examples:
- Give quizzes not to be graded, but with assessment.
- Allow students to make mistakes, but not to do them repeatedly.
- Give more opportunities to students so that they can ask questions.
(e.g. email, anonymous questioning web system, office hours, etc.)
- Give make-up exams, quizzes, reports, etc., but with proper educational consideration.
- Give an extra credit to students who did a great job, but not as a rule.
In addition to the above, the instructor has to be considerate toward students' self-respect.
Instructors must not express contemptuous attitude even though a student did not grasp easy concepts.
The above considerations should also go along with a rigid and fair evaluation; otherwise,
students will not make efforts on understanding topics. In other words, students tend to be trifling
to studying unless the teacher behaves strict with thoughtful assessments.
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