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EDU233: General Teaching Methods
It is paramount you know that teaching is an intentional activity which aims at bringing about learning or impartation of knowledge into the learners. So also you as a teacher must intentionally be well acquainted with the various ways by which you can transfer knowledge, skills and ideas to your students. You must have the required professional knowledge and skills. You must also possess the mastery of the subject matter, since the students depend much on the teacher for acquiring new knowledge. No teacher can impart the knowledge that he has not acquired, therefore you must prepare adequately well in advance.
What Will You Learn?
This course General Methods of Teaching intends to make you have an indept knowledge of what goes on in a typical formal classroom setting. The general method of teaching serves as the preparatory ground for the actual task of teaching and learning processes. It is hoped that this aim will be achieved. The teacher and the child gives you insight into the roles and attitudes of the professional teacher, how children learn and type of learners. This aspect will also give you a focus on the aims of teaching. Lesson plan preparation incorporates and exposes you to formal preparatory activity for teaching such as the syllabus, scheme of work, lesson notes and the problems of time-table. From Teaching Methods you will learn about the various methods of teaching such as the lecture, discussion, demonstration, inductive and deductive and the open education method of teaching etc. The act of classroom management centres on the qualities you as a teacher must possess and the bad habits to avoid; it also deals with the problem of discipline in the classroom.
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