THE AIM AND THE PRINCIPLE OF TEACHING

A teacher must be clear about the aim of teaching of any subject and any topic. Here I am going to focus on the aim of teaching methods. Teaching is not a science, but an art. There is not hard and fast rule for teaching. Different ways by fulfilling the aim of teaching. Teaching is co-related with learning. The experimental and theoretical study of learning is an extensively cultivated branch of psychology. The teacher should know about the way of learning. He should avoid inefficient ways and take advantage of efficient way of learning. There are three principles of learning, they are  :

1.       Principle of active learning.

2.       Principle of best motivation.

3.       Principle of consecutive phases.       

These principles of learning are also the principles of teaching.

Active Learning  :

What the teacher says in the classroom is not unimportant, but what the students think is thousand times more important. The ideas should be born in the students mind and the teacher should act only as midwife. This principle is based on let the students discover by themselves as much as feasible under the given circumstance.

Best Motivation:

The teacher should regard himself as salesman. He wants to sell some mathematics to their students. Duty of a salesman is to convince his customers who refuse to buy his goods in the same way it is the duty of teacher as a salesman of knowledge, to convince the students that mathematics is an interesting subject. The teacher pays attention to the choice, the formulation and a suitable presentation of the problem he aims at. The problem should be related if possible, to the everyday experience of the students, and it should be introduced by a little joke or a little paradox. The best motivation is the student’s interest in his task. Here let me recommend just one little practical trick. Before the students who expresses an opinion himself impatient to know whether his guess will turn out right or not, and so he will be actively interested in his task and in the work of the class.

Consecutive phase  :

The two important phases of learning are, exploratory phase and the phase of assimilation both phases seek to connect the problem in hand with the world around us with other knowledge, first before and the last after, the format solution. In this phase, student start to solve the problem in the sequential order. They start to generalize the problem and find out themselves.

These principles give some idea for teacher to make his teaching interesting and fruitful. If teacher finds out the level of the students and start to uplift from that stage using these principles. I hope that students can do better.