Ghazala Bilquise

Dear newbie teacher, Welcome to the field of teaching.  I am sure you are following your passion and will do very well. However, I do have a few words of advice for you that may help you along the way and support you in achieving your goals faster. First of all let me tell you about our students today. You might agree we are teaching a new generation of students, students who have grown up with technology around them. They are accustomed to integrating technology in all aspects of their lives and thus we need to integrate technology in their education as well. Thus to make learning more effective and real for them we as educators need to integrate technology in our teaching and learning. Another very important reason for doing so is the fact that we need to prepare these students for job markets where they have to be competent in using technology for achieving their tasks. That being said about technology we also need to consider that these job markets requ...

While comparing all the 4 teaching strategies I realized that there is no one solution that fits all. The strategies used in the classroom should be varied depending on the maturity level of the students and the nature of the content that is to be delivered. Does the content require students to think out of the box or is it facts that they need to understand and grasp? Is it repetitive practical task they need to do to master subject or is it a problem they need to apply their thinking on? Most of these questions are answered by carefully reading the course learning outcomes. The course learning outcomes are designed according to the level of the students. For example a level 1 student’s course will have most of the learning outcomes designed in the lower order of the blooms taxonomy - to remember, understand and/or apply. As the students’ progress through the semester, their maturity level increases and so the learning outcomes are mapped to a higher order of the blooms taxonom...