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.