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.
