Saturday, 15 August 2015

Guidelines for a Teacher in Incorporating Innovations in Teaching Mathematics

The teaching and learning of mathematics is a complex activity and many factors determine the success of this activity. The nature and quality of instructional material, the presentation of content, the pedagogical skills
of the teacher, the learning environment, the motivation of the students are all important ad must be kept in view in any effort to ensure quality in teaching – learning of mathematics. The guidelines for a teacher in incorporating instructional materials in teaching mathematics are as follows:
(1) For effective transaction of the curriculum and achievement of curricular objectives appropriate method and pedagogical resources should be used in providing learning experiences to the students.
(2) Decide on and plan in advance the innovative idea that the teacher would be incorporating to transact a particular concepts so that loss of instructional time is prevented or minimized.
(3) In order to promote self-study skills, use of library and resources center needs to be encouraged.
(4) Study mathematical journals and modern books of professional interest. Any facilities of in-service training should be availed of four improving teaching of mathematics.
(5) Involve the students in the process of learning by taking them beyond the process of listening to that of thinking, reasoning and doing.
(6) A number of factors need to be considered while making use of a particular method and pedagogical resource; learner’s capabilities, availability of resources, entry behaviour, school environment, objectives to be achieved, the nature of content and the teacher’s own preparation and mastery.
Conclusively, the teacher can ask himself two questions:
(1) Is there some new way in which I can present this material in order to make it more meaningful and more interesting.
(2) What activities, demonstrations, teaching aids, etc would enrich the classroom presentation and direct attention of students to the important elements?

Once the teacher discovers innovative ways to arouse interest and enthusiasm in the class, he/she will be able to use ideas again the following year, since those will be new and fascinating to a different class. But the teacher should keep in mind that as time passes, the world undergoes a change, the environment surrounding students changes and their needs also changes, so one has to continuously go on modifying and discovering new ways of teaching which proves him a better teacher. 

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