Teaching Methods That Facilitate Learning

Learning is a continuous process. A person can be a learner throughout his life. But, teaching is a quality that only some of us possess. A good teaching ensures learning. History has seen some of the great teachers in various departments across the world. This includes the renowned teacher-student hierarchy, Socrates – Plato – Aristotle – Alexander.

Historically, teachers have practiced various teaching techniques that are used even today in our classrooms. These techniques concentrate on the efficiency of a student’s learning capacity. During various periods in the history, the teaching methods have gone under constant change. Nowadays, gadgets have occupied significant place in conveying the subject material. But, teaching and learning is always the same. Even through a gadget, only a teacher teaches a student which will never change.

In this article, we shall look into some of the core teaching methodologies that can be used to help students learn.

Teaching by asking questions

This method triggers the students’ nature of curiosity to make them involve in the learning process. By questioning students and encouraging them to question, “Why?” and “How?” the teacher can inculcate and enhance the curiosity inside the students’ mind.

Curiosity can be defined as a strong motivating factor for learning. It is the first and foremost reason for human beings to start searching and researching about things around them. It is also the reason, children learn quickly.

A teacher should concentrate to bring out this quality in a student. If this can be perfectly achieved, the rest of the learning process can happen by itself.

Teaching by providing experience

This kind of teaching can be relevant to practical experiments where experience plays a major role. When the students do the experiments directly using their hands, learning becomes inevitable. More practice leads to more experience. But, it is very important to ensure that students progress during every attempt.

Teaching by facilitating observation

Students learn through observation. This technique can be used by a teacher to teach students using models. This observing technique is mostly used in science education. Students are asked to observe a chemical process or a specimen in biology or a model describing a mathematical concept.

Teaching by facilitating association

Using this method, concepts can be taught to students by associating it with their effect. A scientific concept can be efficiently taught by teaching its effect and applications. Thus, the student can learn by associating the theory with its practical application.

This method of teaching is very effective to help students remember the subject and concepts they learn in the classroom. This method can also help them to apply the theoretical concepts into real life situations. 

While enhancing the students’ learning capability, it is also important for a teacher to know about the factors that affect students’ learning process. This effort can eliminate major obstacles and can naturally enhance the students’ learning potential.

We shall discuss about this in the next article.

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