Creativity and Innovative Learning System: Accelerated Teaching Methods.

Creativity and Innovative Learning System: Accelerated Teaching Methods.: When I first graduated from my first Degree in Education, I was taught of methods to teach like teaching through games, drama, simulation, r...

Accelerated Teaching Methods.

When I first graduated from my first Degree in Education, I was taught of methods to teach like teaching through games, drama, simulation, roles play etc. Its all from teaching pedagogy. We just need to determine the general objective and the specific objectives of each lesson. Once we are able to achieve the objectives, the teaching lesson will be considered as successful.

Example: If our objective is for the students to remember all the years that are important for a certain part of history, and at the end of the lesson, students are able to remember and say it back to us, Bravo! A successful lesson!

And of course, as a qualified teachers, we too are exposed to the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs model so we will know if the basic physiological needs of our students are addressed before the start of our lesson.

The questions is, there is no one set of instruction on how we can ensure our lesson is taught in an orderly manners. Each teacher have their own preference way of teaching. Until years ago, I was exposed to in Accelerated Learning methods. Its not something new but refined by educationist throughout the years.

It was started by Dr. Georgi Lozanov in the 1970s with his research book 'Suggestopedia' which was first published in Bulgarian language. He proves that teachers can deliver their lesson more effectively just by changing their methods of teaching compared to their traditional way of teaching. With the latest technology in fMRI and the human understanding of brain functions, hardware and softwared technology development,  I believe that our future generation learning experience will not be the same anymore.

Hence, we should change the way we teach. By applying Accelerated Teaching Techniques during our lesson.

I will blog on Accelerated Teaching in my next posting. Have a good day.

Creative Thinking and Children Development

Most of the time, schools in Asia tend to focus more on cognitive learning and facts. The evaluation of the retaining of these facts is much easier. Creative thinking on the other way is not easy to measure.

Whenever I have discussion with parents and teachers, the same question will pop up. How do we see results after children has participated in the programmes? 

The process of learning is a long way. Even for adults. We learnt from experience. When we gave a problem for students to solve, they have different ways to solve it. Its not like academic lesson that require only one answer.  The more solutions that our participants can come out with, the more interesting is the learning process.

We encourage students to be creative and think based on the simple guidelines. What parents and teacher can do is to ask them questions and wait for the their response towards the questions. Its a learning process. And its a continuous process.