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Assess and Appraise! (Copa-ticha episode 10)

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Going through the previous episodes, you will realize we touched how to start, needed skills, styles and manners as well as other essentials in the act of teaching. Here, we will be discussing a concept commonly mistaken for the end of teaching processes. In fact it is a director to the “why and how” of the whole process. It is EVALUATION. Far from ordinary testing, evaluation is a routine process in teaching, ranging from your questions after each lesson to working on students’ scores in examination.

Main reason for evaluation is in twofold; Continue reading “Assess and Appraise! (Copa-ticha episode 10)” →

Impact before you depart (Copa-ticha episode 9)

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At the end of the previous episode, I made an otherwise sarcastic expression saying “you are also a step to becoming a good dad or mum”. Yeah! Teaching is not all about the lesson content but teachers influence the lives of students directly or indirectly. The ward is the likeness of the guardian!
The day you become a teacher, you become a mentor also thus it’s left to you how and on what to groom your students. Continue reading “Impact before you depart (Copa-ticha episode 9)” →

Use the best… Do the best! (Copa-ticha episode 7)

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Discussion method

The silence in every child cries out: “let me participate and be involved in my own learning and let me join in with other leaners to learn”. A way to deal with this plight is to employ the discussion method of teaching. In this method, the teacher put forward the subject matter to which students present their opinions and views. The teacher will therefore serve as the leader or the moderator of the talk, since he/she may or may not be part of the discussion.

Unlike the didactic method, teacher is not the sole performer instead it is a collaborative exchange of ideas. Continue reading “Use the best… Do the best! (Copa-ticha episode 7)” →

State the Purpose (Copa-ticha episode 5)

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The pilot announced: “at the end of this flight we should be landing at the Muritala Muhammad Intl Airport”. This is a relatively specific statement resulting from certain calculations. A similitude of this is the Behavioral objective. The Behavioural object refers to what the teacher expect the students to have acquire after a particular lesson and for every lesson, there should be objectives.

Objectives are very vital to lessons. They are the bases of selection of method and instructional material to be use in teaching. They make the teacher present carefully what is to be accomplished, so as to avoid talking out of turn, making repetitions and irrelevant points. In short, they make the teaching directed, focus and organised. Continue reading “State the Purpose (Copa-ticha episode 5)” →

Don’t go in alone… (Copa-ticha episode 4)

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A teacher began: “today, we will be discussing computer hardware…he continued…blah blah blah then ended with the habitual question ‘do you understand?’ the students accompanied it with a loud roar of ‘yeees’. A few weeks later, the students sat for a test on the same topic but 75% of them failed. That’s not weird, of course the students said they understood because a further explanation will make the lesson more complex and confusing. This is a problem that can be avoided with the use of an instructional material.

What is an instructional material?

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