EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

For a teacher to achieve the aims, objectives, and goals of teaching, teaching must be intentional. A teacher prepares him/herself to acquire the knowledge he intends to impart so as to be able to answer any question asked by the students in the course of teaching. All teachers must become expert in their respective field or their teaching subject. 

 For effective teaching and learning, preparation is very essential for both students and teachers. Preparation involves the weekly lesson plan and the daily lesson note.
A teacher is expected to be diversified in perception i.e. to have a broad understanding by consulting different texts to form a note of lesson. He/she should not major on the note of lesson for the previous session but study to add more.

A conducive environment also makes teaching and learning effective. The environment for which teaching and learning will take place must be safe, protective and supportive. It must be a health seeking learning environment i.e. a healthy classroom and not a place to contact disease. A teacher must protect and defend all children from abuse and harm. Students should not be afraid of being raped or maltreated in a learning environment. Teachers must make the environment a welcoming and an attractive one.

Teaching methodology is another cogent factor that should be noted when considering effective teaching and learning. A teacher intending to teach effectively must choose a suitable method for each of the topics to teach at different levels of education. Adeyemo (1985) says “education (teaching/learning) must be child centered.”  The selected method must be child centered. A teacher must look into all the methods of teaching and pick out the best for the particular topic he wants to teach. The students should not get accustomed with a single method of learning. Therefore, your methods should be diversified by considering what the topic look like. As a teacher, you may decide to use up to three methods when teaching a topic depending on how you want to achieve your goal of teaching.

Moreover, students learn more easily by what they see, feel, and touch than what they are taught by the teacher. A teacher must teach with teaching aid(s)/instructional material(s). Instructional materials are the objects used to aid teaching/learning thereby making it effective. As a teacher you have to make teaching aid available for each of your topics and if it is too expensive to get, there is room for improvisation. Teaching/learning cannot be effective in the absence of teaching aid since they remember, recall and recognize what they see, feel and touch than what they hear.