Teaching
It is the procedures taken by the teacher in order to help students achieve specific goals. The teaching process includes three main skills (planning skills, implementation skills, and evaluation skills). These skills develop through preparation and experience. In order for the teaching process to succeed, the teacher must provide the means and use them in specific ways and methods to achieve his goals. What is meant by the method in teaching is the link between the student and the curriculum. It is the educational means used by the teacher and the procedures he follows to help his students achieve their goals, whether they are directing questions, or 6 problems that raise questions among students, or trying to discover something, or imposing hypotheses, or other procedures.
Teaching Methods
The teaching method differs from one teacher to another, even if they use the same method, as each teacher has his own method that distinguishes him from other teachers. It must be said that one teaching method may be implemented in different ways, due to the difference in teachers and the difference in their personal characteristics and traits. Teaching methods are diverse, including direct and indirect methods, methods based on praise and criticism, methods based on feedback, methods that depend on a variety of questions, methods based on clarity of presentation and delivery, the teacher’s enthusiastic teaching style, and the individual competitive style.
Teaching methods include the following:
The lecture method or the inductive method
It is an educational method, through which a basic idea is explained and clarified to students. Therefore, this method is a presentation method, primarily concerned with explaining and clarifying ideas. Information may be used in many cases. Among the advantages of this method is that the teacher explains a new topic to the students and links it to the previous topic, especially if there is no link between them. Also, in this way, the teacher provides additional information according to his extensive experience and mature ideas.
It also provides the teacher with the opportunity to clarify some vague things in books, and also allows the student to inquire about them. As for the disadvantages of this method, it takes time. The teacher sometimes spends a lot of time conveying information to students, and they can read it from books without much time. This method also invites the student to take a negative position, not a positive one, and this is a point of weakness; because he depends on the teacher in his teaching, and not using this method causes teachers to lose skill.
Questions (Interrogation) Method
Questions are one of the most important teaching methods. In this method, the teacher tests students’ information and arouses their curiosity. This method is based on exercise and review, with the aim of establishing some important facts in the students’ minds. The question must be brief, thought-provoking, clear, and appropriate for the students’ ages. It must be far from the answer, contain one idea, and far from questions that require a yes or no answer. It must not be formulated in the book format, so the teacher must change the format.
Social Discussion Method
Social discussion, or what is called joint dictation, this method requires saving a huge amount of information and storing facts. The benefit of this method is that it helps develop a spirit of cooperation between students and their teacher.