Knowledge Of Teaching Skills Research Articles

Urgensi Pemanfaatan Keterampilan Mengajar Dalam Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar

Educational institutions are a place for the achievement of learning outcomes that prepare students to have knowledge, attitudes, and skills (cognitive, affective and psychomotor). The achievement of these learning outcomes is the responsibility of teachers and lecturers as well as education providers. In improving learning outcomes, teachers and lecturers are required to know the knowledge of teaching skills and be able to apply them in learning, these teaching skills are questioning skills, reinforcement skills, variation skills, explanation skills, learning opening and closing skills, small group discussion guiding skills, class management skills, small group/ individual teaching skills. The urgency of using these teaching skills in improving learning outcomes can affect the success of the teaching and learning process, can equip teachers in delivering subject matter, can create effective and quality learning, can encourage the enthusiasm of students in following the learning process and can improve learning outcomes.Key words: urgency; teaching skills; learning outcomes

Initiation of a Mentoring Program: Mentoring Invisible Nurse Faculty

Part-time clinical nursing instructors can be an important asset to student learning when qualified. However, they are often expected to begin teaching without an orientation, knowledge of teaching skills, and experience. Additional hurdles for novice faculty include unfamiliarity with the academic culture, college and nursing program policies, procedures, and syllabi. Orientation to the clinical faculty role and having a mentor has been shown to bridge the knowledge gap for the novice part-time clinical nursing faculty.

EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES

Effective teaching is one of the most challenging job of higher education. It improves the quality of higher education. Improving the present of students, providing them new knowledge and make them ready for a bright future must be the priority of effective teaching. The central aim of effective teaching is to help students learn more effectively and efficiently that they could on their own. It motivates and engages all students in learning. Effective teacher believe every student is capable of achieving success in studies and find ways of making every student successful. A good teacher helps the students to learn. Teacher’s beliefs, attitudes and educational philosophy influence the instructional approach, classroom climate and relationship with students. The role of a teacher has been changed from a traditional information provider through lecture to a more modernized and multiple responsibility approach in the new technological world. The knowledge of teaching skills and their proper implementation in a classroom, matters a lot. Effective teaching includes fair expectations, positive attitude and patience with students along with assessment on a regular basis. One of the most challenging tasks of effective teaching is to create a learning environment, which adequately fulfill the needs of all students. A teacher should know about his students, their abilities, understanding level, interests, attention spans and prior knowledge while delivering a lecture in a classroom. Effective teaching does not means only increase in the number of graduates, it must also include improvement in the judgment power of students, human relation skills, problem solving aspect in real life, moral values and a higher confidence level. Effective teaching involves quantitative as well as qualitative teaching which improves the quality of human resource needed for economic growth of a country.