Annotated Bibliography on research-based teaching practices
In his article, Gary D. Borich presents practical yet realistic, research-based teaching practices that have proven effective for engaging students in the learning process, managing their classroom and increasing student achievement. It not only tells what to do to obtain these results but shows how to obtain them. The text explains how individual differences and learner diversity affect student learning needs and classroom management. It also explores teaching strategies in-depth, explaining how to use both direct instructional methods and indirect methods. A self-report survey instrument is included to help the teachers to measure concerns about themselves, the teaching task and their impact on students. The book consists of significant discussions of standardized tests and exercises for Praxis test preparation. It provides field experience activities and classroom observation activities for effective teaching.
In the Modern Teaching Methods and Techniques by Zikr-ur-Rahman, it gives the teaching methods that are considered a handy learning tool as the active student participation is mandatory. The book has vast strengths to how learning and teaching methods are concerned. It describes how different types of learning offer various forms of engagement and interaction that are necessary to improve the students’ performance in the classroom set-up. The modern teaching methods enable the student to learn and master with ease everything that is taught. The interactive classes may offer the learners suitable forms of engagement during the learning processes that will help the student to form augmented and visual reality in the outside world. The author should have clarified some of the implication of various teaching methods to the learner.
In the methods and teaching techniques of teaching by S.K, Kochhar has helped me to expand on my knowledge about the teaching devices and teaching aids. Teaching aids help to improves learners comprehension and to reinforce different skills to the learner. Besides, the book has helped me to know the importance of socialization and group dynamics. The school is to foster the growth of what is individual in each learner and at the same time to harmonize the individuality, thus reducing the organic unity of the social group to which the learner belongs.
Reference
Kochhar, S. K. (1992). Methods and techniques of teaching. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Borich, G. D. (1988). Effective teaching methods. Pearson Education India.
Rahman, Z. U. (2005). Modern teaching methods and techniques. Anmol Publications PVT. LTD.