Modalities of Teaching and Learning
Emmanuel, Jr. Medina Mangune
Teaching is the scientific and creative process of facilitating learning. Educators agree that the purpose of teaching is to increase the student’s capacity to learn the aforecited goal; teachers must exert effort to find ways their God-given talents for their development and well-being. Hence, teaching is and must be a neverending quest for new knowledge, ideas, and skills. To expand the repertoires of methodologies and strategies to meet the needs of a changing world is therefore a serious concern of a teacher.
One kind of teaching consists in the transmission of information about the world. The periodic table, the structure of haiku, the sonata form, the parameters of population change, and the members of a language faculty-such are among the innumerable kinds of things that teachers impart and students retain. The goal is to give students knowledge so that they will know what to answer when questions of fact and context come up. Good teaching requires that the instructor should be knowledgeable and possess effective ways of packaging and delivering the information clearly. Being a good student means being alert so such presentation and to ways of organizing and retaining that information.
This modality encompasses all that is customarily understood when one makes reference to the learning process. The question of the knowledge most worth having becomes rendered as a question of identifying the most valuable kinds of subject matter.
When students learn how to conduct lab experiments, interpret poems, play music, analyze aggregate data, or compare language families, they develop skills and abilities that they can use on their own to utilize new facts or create new ones. The goal of such learning is an ability to perform some kind of activity. Good teaching requires that the instructor must be competent and experienced enough to demonstrate the skills in question in a robust and nuanced manner. It also requires some organization of the learning process to fit varying levels of development.
Effective teachers use many different techniques and strategies throughout a unit. In fact, teachers who are flexible and use a variety of teaching modalities are found to be more interesting to their students. Choose the modalities that would bring about lasting impact on the lives of your students.
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The author is sTeacher III of Dr. Clemente N. Dayrit Sr. Elementary School