Teaching Ability and a Clinical Approach to Learning :

dialogue for positive learning and its effect on pupils

Abstract

  The problem of teachers with insufficient teaching ability has been much discussed recently. Teachers have to improve their professional ability and skills. Now the question is what kind of teaching and teacher's involvement would help children learn better in the classroom. This study examines what classroom environment encourages the children to learn, focusing on the teacher's behavior in the class.

  It finds that teachers who encourage children's learning take and use the children's voices appropriately, so that it is like a dialogue between the two. Also, these teachers keep a good watch on the whole class even while responding to an individual pupil. Further, they try to make pupils aware of others' opinions, relating and comparing one pupil's opinion with others', which helps all the pupils to share in the learning.

  As a conclusion, the study suggests that teachers require the following practical skills to encourage children's learning: presenting properly the learning materials according to the classroom situation; conversation skills to transmit knowledge; creating an interactive relationship between the learners; delivering lessons and responding to the pupils appropriately.