How to Enrich Your Teaching Skills

A.F.M.Tanvir Nabi

EFL Fellow

Hamline University, Minnesota, USA.

Teaching is a challenging profession. It needs passion  to face the challenges. Teaching and learning is a complex process. Teaching in the class demands a systematic and effective dealings. Your involving in the process needs a lot of dedication as well as enthusiasm to possess qualities, values and teaching ethics.  Imparting your acquired knowledge and skills with a view to educating other in true sense requires a well trained approach. The approach that needs a clear vision of  pedagogy, cognition and instrumental  action.

Adequate knowledge on the imparted subject matter: Successful conveying of information to your target audience largely depends on your enrichment of knowledge. Your content or lesson should be class standard. Your expertise would make your confidence to handle the delicate students. Your students are your target audience. Notice how excellently your presentation impresses your students and achieve learning objects.

Importance of pedagogy: How you teach is very significant as your success of teaching lies in the greater understanding of the lesson that you impart in the class for the students. Pedagogy is your teaching action. Your way of teaching is the result of pedagogy.  The more function of your pedagogy works well, the more comprehension level of students goes up.

Judge students’ cognitive level: Students’ capabilities to comprehend relay on the cognitive level. Cognitive factors determine the capacity of awareness, perception, reasoning and judgment. While lessons are delivered, it is immensely important to consider students’ cognitive level. Cognitive level varies from student to student.

Evaluate students’ knowledge & skill at the end: Teaching and learning process advances on according to prescribed steps. All activities should  be well regulated by a perfect lesson plan. Students’ acquired knowledge and skills   need to measure at the end of the lesson. As a teacher, your success rate lies in the perfect demonstration of students’ acquiring  knowledge and skills.

A teacher’s contribution in nurturing students’ talent in the right direction is invaluable. The most significant quality that a teacher need is a real passion and dedication for teaching profession. It is a teacher who can make a lifelong impression in the mind of students and the beauty of this profession lies here.

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