This paper will discuss some of the goals that teachers should have for effective learning in the classroom and the roles or duties they have to perform to gain student success and achievement. Ideas will be put forward that will reflect on ways that effective teaching can determine the degree of creativity, freedom or excitement experienced by the student in conjunction with learning. Effective teaching strategies and techniques to help in learning will be mentioned.
Teachers need to be wary about adopting new methods with the ideological zeal of religious converts. While new strategies and techniques may prove valuable and help produce excitement in the classroom; there is a danger in becoming emotionally over-charged and expecting almost utopian results from the latest methods. Just about any time a new method of educational instruction comes along, those at the forefront of the innova-tion promote their new method with all the zeal of the founder of a new religion. Though the excitement and charisma associated with the promoters of new teaching methods may be attractive a
and infectious, teachers need to keep a perspective and remem-ber that there are no magic bullets or panaceas that will solve all problems and turn every student into a overnight success (Maley, 1983).
Having said this, there are still reasons to adopt new teaching techniques and strategies, though the teacher must develop good independent evaluative judgment in order to deter-mine what to accept and what to reject when choosing among new methodologies to adopt for classroom use. One positive result that often occurs with the adoption of a new teaching technique is a change in the roles of learner and teacher--the teacher will gain in esteem and feel good when the new techniques succeed in producing excitement and positive results in the students, and students will feel better about themselves when they succeed. Among the positives to look for when a new ...