By Genar P. Tacay
EFFECTIVE teaching refers to that description where the objectives of every plan are considered as one hundred percent earned. In the study conducted by Edna Luz Raymundo Abulon (2014) entitled “Basic Education Teachers Concept of effective teaching: Inputs to teacher education curriculum in the Philippines” categorized effective teaching into personality-based dispositions, teaching competence traits, contents mastery and expertise, pedagogical knowledge and extension of one’s self.
Pedagogical knowledge is the term of educators but it simply means those referring to strategies and methods of teaching. These are the use of techniques, skills, methods, know-how or any procedure that will bring knowledge to the understanding of the learners. The effective use of materials and all the actions of the teacher in the process of interacting with the learners cover these.
The findings of the study imply that effectiveness does not specifically point to a single factor, say pedagogical knowledge. The finding concludes that the categories must all be used to be effective.
Personality-based dispositions are centered on the inherent personality characteristics or the descriptions that are natural to a person since birth.
Good interpersonal relations is another theme referring to the way you interact with administrators, fellow teachers and the learners and last is being inspirational. The last is somewhat related to all strategies that give motivation to the learner whether at the start of the lesson or at any time when the mentor senses the need for it as when the learners are getting bored already or, on the part of the mentor, the teaching feels to be leading to inutility.
Striking in the study are good interpersonal skills such as imposing a motherly image, or that of a sister, brother such that the learners truly feel they belong to a family (frequency of 97). The highest frequency of one hundred twelve (112) calls for an approachable teacher.
One-third of the learner’s life when computed are spent in classrooms. That is eight years of the learners’ life when studying.
While there were so many studies pointing to effective teaching to include Bustos-Orosa (2008), the study of Abulon promotes effective teaching as an extension of one’s self. That is, whatever the mentor is doing in the classroom truly reflects her personality at home or outside of the school– in the community and in any other places where teaching is necessary outside the four corners of the classroom.
The study also suggests rating methods to be done to determine which among the factors are necessary, realistic or applicable in a given setting.
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