Sunday, October 20, 2019

Fundamental Educational Principles




Fundamental Educational Principles


Focus is on learning rather than teaching


1- Teachers help students discover how language works and develop inner criteria for correctness.
2- Teacher “talk” is kept to minimum.
3- Independent study is targeted towards individual needs.
4- Students learn through ‘doing ‘(experiential learning).
5- Success is measured by what students can “do" communicatively rather than by what they can do cognitively.
6- A teacher covering specified materials (textbooks or otherwise) does not constitute learning.
7- Learning /skill development requires practice and awareness outside as well as inside the classroom.


Students are best served through humanistic, holistic, approaches


1- A caring relationship between student and teacher is established by treating student as a “whole” person.
2- Language is most effectively learned as a “whole” system and not a collection of isolated skills.
3- Linguistic and thinking skills are inter-related and inter-dependent.
4- Lessons integrate linguistic and professional skills and objectives.
5- Lessons should be structured as much as possible to draw on student knowledge, experience, ideas, and interests.
6- Teachers help students develop ways to facilitate their own learning and to improve weaker skills.