Educators nowadays have their own way to improve their teaching abilities and strategies in order their students to become productive in class. When interest is aroused in something, whether it is an academic subject or a hobby, we enjoy working hard at it. Coupled with the need to establish relevance of content, instructors need to craft explanations that enable students to understand the materials. This involves knowing what students understand and then forging connections between what is known and what is new.

            The concern and respect for students and student learning should be established in the class atmosphere. It displays the classic symptom of making a subject seen more demanding that it actually is. Some people may get pleasure from this kind of masquerade. Good teaching is nothing to do with making things hard. It is nothing to do with frightening students. It is everything to do with benevolence and humility, it always tries to help students feel that a subject can be mastered; it encourages them to try things out for themselves and succeed at something quickly.

            Appropriate assessment and feedback should be given on each student; this principle involves using a variety of assessment techniques and allowing students to demonstrate their mastery of material in different ways. It avoids those assessment methods that encourage students to memorize and regurgitate. It recognizes the power of feedback to motivate more effort to learn.

            Effective educators set high standards for their students. They also articulate clear goals. Students should know up front what they will learn and what they will be expected to do with what they know. It is also important to improve teaching strategy that teachers should learn also from students. Effective teaching refuses to take its effect on students for granted. It sees the relation between teaching and learning as problematic, uncertain and relative. Good teaching is open to change, it involves constantly trying to find out what the effects of instruction are on learning, and modifying the instruction in the light of the evidence collected.

            Teaching strategies are important to maintain the clear connection among students and teachers as well as it provides the change towards productive and well balanced learning attitude of students towards subject matter.

By: Jason T. Pantaleon | T-II | Bonifacio National Highschool