Innovative Methods of Teaching

TRADITIONAL AND MULTIMEDIA LEARNING

• TRADITIONAL METHOD – A ONE WAY FLOW

• TEACHER

• MULTIMEDIA

• STUDENT

• STUDENTS

• TEACHER

• MULTIMEDIA LEARNING – AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING PROCESS

MIND MAP

• Innovative way – Mind Map.
• Developed by Tony Buzan 1960.
• Making notes with keywords and images.
• visual and sensory tools at our disposal.
• Recollect information for long time.

AN EXAMPLE OF MIND MAP FOR SCALAR QUANTITIES

TEACHING WITH SENSE OF HUMOUR

• Laughter is a natural, universal phenomenon, with beneficial effects, both physical and psychological.
• Everyone loves a teacher with an infectious
• sense of humor.
• Cordial relationship.
• Ability to relax people and reduce tension.
• Advertising strategy.
• Cartoon
• When there is a willingness to change, there is hope for progress in any field.
• Students enjoys humor in forms of funny anecdotes

Z TO A APPROACH

• This approach attempts to explain the application part of a particular concept first.
• Strengths
• Makes a particular concept clear
• Students develop interest to know exactly the concept.
• Creates long lasting memory/correlation of a concept.
• Weaknesses
• Take quite long time for a teacher to introduce a concept
• Initial difficulty in understanding a particular concept will be encountered.

LEANING TOWER OF PISA EXPERIMENT – EXAMPLE TO Z – A APPROACH

Concept Simulation - reenacts Galileo's experiment of two different objects falling at the same rate.

MNEMMONICS - WORDS- WORDS –WORDS APPROACH

• Concept approach.
• Associated meaning.
• Increase word power
• Dictionary.

• ROLE PLAYING AND SCENARIO ANALYSIS BASED TEACHING

• Role playing
• Practical approach
• Theory supplemented by practical.

INNOVATIONS

• Internet ready phones
• Handheld computers
• Digital cameras
• Mp3 players
• Laptops
• Elearning

INNOVATIVE METHODS

• Courses

• Students’ needs

• Industry requirments
• Specialization
• Medium

• Evaluation &Assessment
• + On-the-Job Training

• OUR GOAL: Clarity is the key

TEACHER THE GREATEST INNOVATOR

• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
• To teach is to learn twice
• Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating
• The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning.
• LEARNING NEVER ENDS