Implementing Instruction

How can teachers implement effective instruction in their classrooms and make them conducive to meaningful learning?

      Teachers can implement effective instruction in their classrooms and make them conducive to meaningful learning through effective strategies, to communicate effectively and to support students’ engagement in the teaching-and-learning process. Studies emphasizes not only a teacher’s efforts at planning instruction, but also successfully implementing strategies appropriate to the content and instructional goals The literature on instruction suggests that students whose teachers develop and regularly integrate inquiry-based, hands-on learning activities, critical thinking skills, and assessments into daily lessons consistently out-perform their peers. Therefore, flexibility and adeptness with a variety of teaching strategies contribute to teacher effectiveness; teachers are obliged to look for the best strategies to implement instruction in their classrooms and make them conducive to meaningful learning. Definitely, some strategies that might help teachers to reach an effective instruction in their classrooms are combining instructional techniques that involve individual, small-group, and whole-class instruction. This allows them to monitor and pace instruction based on the individual needs of students.

Why is communication of content and skills knowledge a characteristic of good teachers?

    Communication of contents and skills knowledge is a characteristic of good teachers because communication is fundamental to any profession that requires interaction among people and within an organization. Teaching is no exception. Clarity on explanations, an important communication skill, is manifested in two primary ways in teaching process. The first, for example, relates to the teacher’s ability to explain content clearly and in focused manner pointing out concepts and relations; in this way, students learn and absorb what it is being taught in class. The second one, however, concerns the teacher’s clarity in terms of explain directions for how students are to complete an activity. Clearly, effective communication in teaching requires teachers to clearly understand subject matter and how to share that subject matter with students in a way that come to own it and understand it deeply.  

How are you dealing with student engagement in your own teaching practicum, as the age of your students is a critical one?     

     In my teaching practicum I have tried to foster a sense of security and comfort among my students since I have noticed that some of them have some discipline problems. I always try to make them be aware of their own learning and I have also tried to make them increase their self- confidence.  However, dealing with some of my students’ attitudes has been somehow difficult for me since I have to be more patience and besides that I have encouraged myself to put into practice the most effective ways or strategies about classroom management even though the students’ ages are quiet difficult to deal with.