Effective Teaching: Strategies for Instructors
COACH
Student-Teacher Relationship
It’s an important relationship because of the way knowledge is delivered to learners and how to address the knowledge held by the person who is teaching.
Attempting the Instructor
Make sure that the training participant knows more than they did before. This involves understanding something you did not know and developing a skill not possessed, making them think differently than previously thought.
Purpose of the Instructor
To ensure that their teachings are planned for the future.
Conditions for a Successful Instructor
- a) Want: Words convince, but examples drag. You can deliver much theory, but unless the learner gives the example, they will not internalize the subject.
- b) What to Know: There is nothing better than a good theory. Know it when spoken.
- c) Who Knows How to Teach: If participants do not learn, it is because the instructor has not taught them.
- d) Know How People Learn: I hear, and I forget; I see, and I remember; I do, and I understand.
- e) Know How to Communicate: Speaking well earns goodwill.
- f) Be Flexible: Consider that there are no absolute truths.
Instructor Decalogue
- Freedom
- Emotional maturity
- Please, generate creativity
- Sure sign
- Showed authority
- Show management group
- Be friendly
- Orient to their skills
- Care for your image
- Be patient
Forms of Learning
In planning how the activities will be, consider how the person will learn to create a form of learning that helps students achieve their goals.
Types of Learning
A) Trial and Error: Fixing something, especially without adequate knowledge of its operation, leads us to experience.
b) Observation: The student will become aware of a situation in a guided or controlled manner. The idea of observation may include the other senses besides sight.
Requires checking whether the observation of trainees is correct. Verify that they may have made the observation.
c) Imitation: When it comes to performing a determined action through repetition and imitation of what is done, learning by imitation.
d) Repetition: Handles the memory that stores facts, situations, and ideas.
e) Simulation: Student development through the use of tools, objects, and elements to minimize risks.
f) Troubleshooting: It takes place when the student encounters problems. It is one of the best ways to learn, and students must deal with concepts and ideas and should also know how to apply them.
Conference
Oral presentation of a topic when the subject used for teaching is limited, when the subject has no argument, when your goal is aimed at the area of knowledge, behavior is intended to develop the cognitive area being perceived by the senses.
Formal Conference
When the material is presented to a lot of people who have little or no involvement in the process.
Informal Conference
The more activity the student has in the teaching-learning process, the greater their learning.
Techniques for a Conference
- A) Use Verbal Media: The instructor must use a variety of media to cause verbal questions in the mind of the group participating in the training.
- B) Use Visual Aids: You must use visual aids to reinforce the verbal media, to illustrate and clarify ideas, charts, graphs, slides, drawings, scale models, etc.
- C) Emphasize Key Points: It should be presented in a way that each idea is important for every learner, and emphasize the most important of these in teaching.
- D) Group Dynamics: To create dynamism in the person empowered by the group for a given task.
Advantages of Using Questions
- To appeal to the audience and arouse curiosity.
- To draw attention to an individual or group.
- To facilitate the participation of shy or distracted people.
- To get feedback about the pace and nature of the course.
- To encourage discussion on a topic.
- To guide participants towards objectives.
How to Answer
- Be direct and concrete.
- Reconfirm the question.
- If the question is off-topic, explain.
- Be patient.
Types of Participants
The argumentative, optimistic, all-knowing, the fool, the shy, the closed, unfriendly.