INTERACTIVE TEACHING TO ENCOURAGE LEARNER’S ACTIVE CLASSROOM PARTICIPATION

ARNEL G. MANDAP

Through encouraging participation and teamwork, interactive education involves students in the learning process. This kind of instruction seeks to foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaborative abilities in addition to increasing students' enjoyment and sense of purpose in their studies.

Students are encouraged to actively participate in the learning process through the use of interactive teaching as a pedagogical strategy. There are a number of ways to accomplish this, including think-pair-share exercises, interactive demonstrations, and student-centered activities. The objectives of interactive teaching are to foster critical thinking abilities, encourage active learning, and raise student participation. Think-pair-share, peer teaching, cooperative learning, group discussions, practical experiments, and problem-solving exercises are a few efficient ways to promote students' active engagement in the classroom.

Teachers can improve student engagement and cultivate a love of learning by establishing a warm and inclusive classroom environment, implementing active learning strategies, and giving timely feedback.

Nowadays, as teachers of the modern world needs to do extra mile in devising new ways to deliver lesson efficiently, timely and productively. In that manner, learners can easily grasp each day’s lesson and empowered them to develop their skills and abilities holistically.

-oOoThe author is Teacher I of Sampaga Elementary School

Communication is the process of interchanging ideas, thoughts, opinions, knowledge, and data that should have to be received with clarity and purpose. It should be effective in order that both the sender and receiver meet at a common ground and feel satisfied.

In like manner, school heads or managers must have the skill in communication to become better leaders of the institution. If a school head communicates effectively with his teachers with a purpose, the operation will run smoothly and results to the achievement of its goals, mission, and objectives.

A school manager who communicates effectively with his subordinates and in return digest and interprets the same way as it was delivered, that is an indication that there is a good interchange of ideas through communication. In that way, the trusting climate will exist that shall enrich over time.

School heads must bear in mind that communication is the basis of all managerial skills. Why? Because through it, an effective school manager can delegate duties and responsibilities to his subordinates. In so doing, he can demonstrate leadership abilities, training new policies, counselling performance, and the like.

Sad to say, if the school manager fails to communicate with everyone in the school in the best he could, information is transmitted in a different meaning. It is therefore advisable that a school head should always be accessible to his teachers and to everyone who need his attention. He should not be preoccupied or buried in his administrative but will always find ways to promote healthy, productive, and meaningful discussions among his teachers and even his stakeholders.

-oOoThe author is MASTER TEACHER I at Angeles City National Trade School