My Passion

So What do you notice when you think about your future?

When i think about my future i think about Money & Happiness .Eventually to achieve both you need to have a good education . If you want to understand how a education needs to be imparted to student come and visit my blog where you can learn different teaching styles that will help you to connect to your student better.

I would say passion is something which you are ready to do even if someone wakes up you at midnight.Similarly i found out my passion that is Teaching to student who really needs it .Being in this field for past 5 years, i learned to communicate with students more effectively 

Welcome to world of  Teaching 

Read further to see the easiest ways understand different Teaching styles, implement it at their best &show them off to the world by giving best education to the people who need it.

Introduction

You will realize at some point that your teaching methods and style stem from a specific philosophy of education, even if you aren’t aware of what that philosophy is. Your teaching style reflects on what you value in education, what methods you believe are effective, and how your students learn your subject best.

1. Develop your own teaching style

Developing an effective teaching style for your subject-area requires time, effort, a willingness to experiment with different teaching strategies, and an examination of what is effective in your teaching. Don’t necessarily try to mimic favorite teachers from the past. Consider your strengths. Develop approaches that you are comfortable with and that maximize student engagement and learning in your subject-area.

2. Consider learning styles and diversify your approach

Students have different learning styles. Familiarity with learning style differences will help you understand implications of your chosen teaching style. Students preferentially take in and process information in different ways: by seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively, analyzing and visualizing. When mismatches exist between learning styles of most students in a class and the teaching style of the professor, the students may become bored and inattentive in class, do poorly on tests, get discouraged about the courses, the curriculum, and themselves. To overcome these problems, teachers should strive for a balance of instructional methods through a diversified approach. Tailor your approach to meet student learning needs. 

3. Teacher-centered approaches

An example of a teacher-centered approach is the note-taking/lecture model. Teachers may attempt to maximize their delivery of information and control of the class while minimizing their time and effort.

Pros of teacher-centered approaches are:

· A large amount of information can be shared in a short amount of time

· The teacher has control of organization

Cons of teacher-centered approaches are:

· Knowledge controlled by the instructor

· One-way communication

Two teacher-centered approaches are defined as:

Formal authority: The teacher feels responsible for providing and controlling the flow of the content and the student is expected to receive the content. Teachers with this teaching style are not as concerned with building relationships with their students nor is it as important that their students form relationships with other students. This type of teacher doesn’t usually require much student participation in class.

Demonstrator model: This type of teacher acts as a role model by demonstrating skills and processes and then as a coach/guide in helping students to develop and apply these skills and knowledge.  Instructors with this teaching style are interested in encouraging student participation and adapting their presentation to include various learning styles. 

4. Student-centered approaches  

Many teachers use more interactive approaches in an effort to be responsive to a variety of learning styles. Student-centered approaches require active participation from teachers and students, putting much of the responsibility for leaning on the student.

Pros of a student-centered approach include:

· Engages students in the learning process

· Encourages student ownership of knowledge

Cons of a student-centered approach include:

· More difficult to implement with large numbers of students

· Can be more time consuming than lecturing

Regardless of the cons, the results of educational research studies as well as anecdotal evidence generally show that interactive, student-driven teaching results in successful learning for a broader range of learning styles.

Two student-centered models are defined as:

Facilitator: These teachers tend to focus on activities. There is much more responsibility placed on the students to take the initiative for meeting the demands of various learning tasks. Teachers typically design group activities which necessitate active learning, student-to-student collaboration and problem solving.  While course content is obviously essential, the facilitator does not make them the principal focus of the course goals. Rather, the goal is to learn how to use the content in a problem-solving way.

Delegator: Places much control and responsibility for learning on individuals or groups of students. Students are often asked to work independently or in groups and must be able to maintain motivation and focus for complex projects.

5. A student-centered approach does not undermine the teacher’s authority role in the classroom

Learn to find a good balance between your role as authority/content expert and co-learner/facilitator. Students appreciate teachers who make the effort to communicate on their level. It is important to find the appropriate balance of how to present yourself with confidence but also to engage as a co-learner to minimize faculty-student distance. Selected teaching strategies can bridge the distance of a traditional faculty role, some of which can be used in both teacher-centered and student-centered approaches.

6. Consider using technology to diversify teaching approaches

Think of different ways to deliver information and different ways to use class time. If students access prepared lectures outside of class via Blackboard .You can use in-class time to discuss challenging or interesting information found in the prepared content. On the flip side, if class time is devoted to lecture, post compelling discussion questions on Blackboard for students to engage in outside of class.

7. Try new things!

Finally, think about your teaching. Whether you are early career faculty or have been teaching for years, you may want to adjust your teaching style. Ask yourself questions about how you teach, why you do it that way, and how successfully the students learn the material.

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My first encounter with fear

It was a time when i was giving my semester exam of HSC.A college peon came in examination hall and called me. i was quite astonished and started thinking why he called by name .No sooner i went out of exam hall i asked peon what has happened and why did he called me.The peon replied there was a fire cracker which was busted in gents washroom i am suspected for placing those fire crackers.

Hearing this i was completely shocked.I asked the reason to my college peon that on what basis they are suspecting me .The peon replied "I don't know i have just been told to call and present u in front of Principal " .When i went over there i saw 4-5 students standing outside principal cabin where discussing about the same then i came to know that they were also suspected in the same case as of mine.

we all were called one by one in principal cabin she told me that they have fingerprint of person who placed firecracker in college & If fingerprint is verified as mine then they will debarred me from the college.This words made me completely shocked.Although i had not done any crime my mind started thinking much faster then my heart beats about what will happen if i am being found guilty. Suddenly i came to know that all my friends who were being called were told the same thing and then somehow i heaved a sigh of relief when a friend came and told me that actually they don't have any proof as such.It was actually a way by which they feared us so that a person who placed firecracker will admit his crime.Eventually after few hrs they told us to go home as they where not able to trace any culprit for that.

After few days i came to know the reason for them to suspect us and it was quite silly reason when they state that  "On the day of exam you reached late in exam hall so you where suspected"  Hearing this i started laughing like anything.