WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES OF GOOD TEACHING?
1. Active learning- the pupil must be mentally active at most times and physically active some of the time.
2. Many methods- there is no single correct way to teach a class.
3. Motivation- effective motivation arises from children''s interests, problems, and expressed purposes.
4. Well-balanced curriculum- there should be a blend and a balance of the two purposes served by the curriculum: to provide essential skills for the child to enable him/her to become a useful member of society; to satisfy the child''s personal and immediate needs.
5. Individual differences- the slow learning child, the average child, and the bright child to be taught in different ways. In addition to children''s intellectual differences, there are differences in emotional, social, physical, spiritual, aesthetic, and moral development.
6. Lesson Planning- units, lessons, and activities should be well-planned... all planning must be flexible.
7. The power of suggestion- through the power of positive suggestion, children are willing to undertake tasks and procedures, which they may have felt inadequate to tackle before, or had not to considered.
8. Encouragement- good teaching is characterized by daily help to the pupils in judging their own progress.
9. Remedial teaching- good teaching is both diagnostic and remedial.
10. Democratic environment- children learn democracy by living it. In return for rights and priviledges within the classroom, children shoul be aware of their responsibility to the group and of group service.
11. Stimulation- each child can be stimulated, within the limits of his/her abilities, to exceed his/her present efforts.
12. Integration- by building upon previous knowledge andexperiences, new learning and new experiences become more meaningful.
13. Life-like situations- children should be guided into realization that their school studies and activities are a part of life.
14. Independence- a child''s increasing independence from adults and ever-increasing sense of responsibility are signpots of good teaching.
"TEACHING IS A PROCESS OF IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT"