PARTICIPATORY TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR YOUNG TEACHERS

1. PARTICIPATORY TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR YOUNG TEACHERS Dr. A. Devaraj HETL Liaison of India Director, Training & Placement & Senior Faculty in English, Loyola College, Chennai 34

2. What is teaching? • “A set of complex skills employed to realize a specified set of instructional objectives” • The complexity is based on: 1. Behavior, 2. Attitude, 3. Learning, 4. Catholicity, 5. Transparency & 6. Patience

3. Teaching Skills • Analytical & reasoning skill • Ability to realize & correct mistakes • Turn taking ability • Comprehension • Questioning • Knowledge dissemination • Information transfer

4. T.S… • Cheerful & cooperative • Pacing the lessons • Moderation • Diagnostic skill • Remediation • Relational • Evaluation

5. What is Learning? • A permanent change in behavior after undergoing a particular experience The kinds of learning: • Single loop learning • Double loop learning • Deutero learning

6. What is learning? • Knowledge acquisition: What is knowledge? To know that you know To know that you don’t know To know what you don’t know & To know that you should not know that

7. Wisdom • Wise is he who learns from books • Wiser is he who learns from experience & • Wisest is he who learns from others’ experience • We should be : wise wiser wisest

8. Curriculum & Content • Internationalize your curriculum • Incorporate multinational experience & thought • Culturally inclusive • Include international issues • Kindle them to think nationally, internationally & globally

9. Staff • Have international links with your colleagues, former colleagues, etc • Get linked to LI’s HETL • Create links with international companies & institutions • Establish networks • Establish student, staff exchange

10. Students • Encourage students to question • Allow them present their cases, projects, papers, etc • Teach & practise ‘research skills’ • Fuel their imagination & creativity

11. Participatory Teaching Learning Strategies • Brain storming • G.D. • Presentation • Socratic method • Case study method • Small scale research • Survey methods • Projects & term papers

12. Methods • PPTs • Role play • Turn taking • Hand outs for discussion • Quizzes • Zero hour • Mock press

13. Methods… • Seminars • Term paper presentation • Brain storming • Brain writing • Panel discussion • Mock viva • Market survey

14. Participatory Teaching - Learning Cycle

15. What are the PTL Skills? • 1. Questioning: lead, probing, door openers, clarificatory, classificatory, etc • 2. Kindling interest • 3. Experience sharing • 4. Encouraging innovation • 5. Turn- taking • 6. Reinforcement skills

16. What are the PTL Skills? • 7. Silence • 8. Explaining & illustrating • 9. Example- giving • 10. Effective use of BB, PPT, etc • 11. Encouraging learners’ discussion • 12. Parliamentary methods/ words • 13. Cheerful & lively

17. Skills… • 14. Alfred Hitchcock formula • 15. Learning to question • 16. Responding to queries • 17. Moderation • 18. Behavior modification • 19. Synthesizing & winding up • 20. Effective classroom management

18. Benefits of PTL • 1. Keen observation • 2. Active Listening • 3. Positive Interaction • 4. Recall of content/ Recollection of the process • 5. Defining the concept

19. Benefits… • 6. Simulation • 7. Micro-teaching • 8. Appreciation of Teaching skills & techniques • 9. Immediate Evaluation • 10. Constructive criticism • 11. Transparency

20. Thanks a lot!