Effective Classroom community
… The significant skill enhancement through the students’ learning process
“Learning to teach is an ongoing process for any teacher and organization. Teachers’ openness to trying new ideas, methods, and approaches helps them to climb up their success ladder”.
As an educator, I am passionate about finding the best approach to presenting high-quality content, excited to discover each student’s particular learning style, and committed to achieving significant progress with regular, intentional effort through my students. I observed the same as an educational leader in other most effective teachers’ classes. In order to successfully instruct, guide, and motivate pupils, a teacher must gain a thorough understanding of each student’s learning process and its strengths and shortcomings.
I could summarize that, basically, there are three major skills that affect the learning process of a student at any level. They are:
i) Conceptual understanding
ii) Analyzation/ applications in general
iii) Visualization of the topic in one’s own way
Once the classroom environment taps these three skills with the help of the educator, it leads to the strengthening of five fundamental skills of higher order thinking skills:
- Conceptualizing skills
- Inquiring skills
- Reasoning skills
- Problem solving skills
- Communicating skills
Furthermore, the continual accumulation of individual hard work with problem solving strategies will significantly boost creative and critical thinking skills. In the end, this knowledge will be created by working within the parameters of competency, creative thinking, and trying new things, notably in the field of mathematics and some other subjects.
Most notably, the teacher’s Empathy — Belief in each student’s progress — Deep sense of helping/valuing students- use of humour at necessary time- and the quality and effective delivery could do wonders for a student’s progress in this regard.
Furthermore, adequate integration of academic content with skills enhancement and making students aware of real-world applications can have a paradigm shift in the positive learning process.
A lot of teachers and institutions will try to teach students values and ethics, but when push comes to shove, very few take a stand. The teacher’s art of crisis management and the teachers’ responses at times make them role models. Effective and human responses to things that happen by accident in the classroom will help students think more clearly.
Finally, I would like to say, “the teacher is a Trinity of Behaviourists, Cognitivists, and Humanists.” Of course, behaviourists, cognitivists, and humanists all use different methodologies in their work. Teachers can guide students’ mental processes in class, manage external conditions, and affect their students’ emotions and attitudes, all of which influence effective learning. However, teachers are the only ones who can perform all three roles in their everyday lives and make a difference in the educational system. It encourages meaningful classroom learning in all dimensions. The teacher will appropriately shape the action, belief, and knowledge components and establish strong ties between the system and the pupils to promote learning.
