Evaluating Effective Teaching

Effective teaching should not be evaluated on				Teachers passing on what they know to
student's ability to pass an exam, but on impact in				students, without awakening their understanding
the human development of students. In the past,				for progressive insight, will only culminate to a
teachers and even some institutions evaluated				status quo in reasoning, thinking, creativity and
effective teaching on the examination success of				imagination, leading to stagnation and decline in
students. This narrowed down teaching towards				human civilisation. This is the status quo the world
examination demands, with much emphasis on				finds itself in right now which can be broken only
studies following examination curriculum.				through the dynamics of effective teaching.
On the part of the students, this equally inspired a				Enhancement of human consciousness: Enhancing
lot of cram work and cheating during exams, as				consciousness through effective teaching is an
each student strives for examination success.				evaluatory criteria of effective teaching.
This situation has produced qualified illiterates and				Consciousness is the inward apprehension of
educated but underdeveloped individuals who are				existing knowledge within each individual.
unable to cope with personal, societal or global				Knowledge without should provoke and invoke the
challenges.				knowledge within one's self in relativity to life's
Most of today's graduates are the most				matters. A teaching exercise culminates in a
ineffective individuals one can ever employ. With				fiasco, if it fails to awake the consciousness of
all the above, it is evident that, examination				students. This failure makes students more
success is not the evaluatory criteria of effective				interdependent than independent. It forces them
teaching. With the present sub-standard in today's				to live their lives based on outward actualities
graduates and under graduates and the global				instead of inward realities.
decline in academic impact, there is need to				The world of knowledge within is greater than the
redefine the evaluatory criteria of effective				information that exists without. Limiting one-self to
teaching. This is the focus of this article.				external knowledge is the greatest deprivation
Effective teaching in the 21st century will be				one can find himself in.
evaluated on the teaching impact in the human				The apprehension of knowledge within one-self
development of students. This implies, the human				makes possible the influence of the exterior from
development of students will be the test of a				the interior. It equally builds inward tenacity against
teacher's effectiveness. To expatiate further, we				external factors. If this result was evident through
will have to look at the subject Human				the different teaching programmes carried out all
Development in the 21st century as it relates to				over the world, humanity should have long
effective teaching.				overcome all what threatens her existence.
Human development: Human Development was				Enhancement in awareness: This is the third
defined in the past centuries with respect to				evaluating criteria of effective teaching. Effective
human activities. For example, the construction of				teaching should enhance awareness. Enhancing
roads and bridges, water and electricity projects,				awareness is greater than what it was defined to
etc.Thus, education was focused on preparing				be in the 20th century. Enhancing awareness is
individuals to serve in different domains of human				directly proportionate to the relative equation in
activities. This created a situation where humans				human understanding, consciousness and
became stagnant and deficient with respect to				enlightenment. Which implies, true awareness,
the demands of changing times, making humanity				though with relative external consequences should
unable to provide relative answers to present and				stem from within.
future challenges.				Thus, the enhancement in awareness should lead
In the 21st century, human development is				to a more comprehensive individual, instead of
defined with respect to the progressive				one with just a bit of enlightenment on an aspect
development of humans in their understanding,				of life. This is where most of our educational
consciousness, awareness and potential in relation				efforts failed. If an educational process fails to
to time and demand.				produce a more comprehensive individual, it has
This implies, human development should guarantee				just created a problem by unleashing to the
human civilisation in relation to time and demands.				world, an individual who is narrow minded,
With this, humans are to progressively develop as				unrealistic with respect to global issues and
time and demand changes, so as to be constantly				deficient with the best illustration of being an
prepared for the challenges, opportunities,				"improper fraction".
privileges and responsibilities which life presents in				Such individuals have created more problems in
relation to time.				the world than have provided solutions. They are
With respect to human development, effective				of more harm than good to mankind. The only
teaching is the impartation of quality knowledge to				solution to this dilemma is an educational approach
enhance human development. Thus, effective				geared towards the development of more
teaching is evaluated by the following impact.				comprehensive individuals. This will inevitably
(i)Enhancement in human understanding.				demand for the dynamics of effective teaching in
(ii)Enhancement in human consciousness				practicality. The enhancement in human
(iii)Enhancement in awareness				awareness through effective teaching should
(iv)The development of human potential				enhance individual civilisation.
(v)The preparation of humans to cope with life's				Civilisation in this respect is the global
challenges, privileges, responsibilities and				understanding, consciousness and awareness to
opportunities.				universal needs and demands, in relativity to time,
The following are the criteria of evaluating				with resultant consequences in human operation,
effective teaching, which should be evident in the				productivity, utility and efficiency.
human development of students. This implies each				This implies, effective teaching should impart
time a teacher stands before students; he/she				civilisation to learners, leading to the enhancement
should set as goals the above results on the				in their understanding, consciousness and
human development of students. This is the only				awareness to universal needs and demands, in
way by which humanity can stem the present				relativity to time, with resultant consequences in
tides of human degeneration, deficiency and				human operation, productivity, utility and
degradation.				efficiency.
Enhancement in human understanding: This is the				With respect to the above, effective teaching is
first impact of effective teaching. One has taught				measured by the degree of civilisation
virtually nothing if at the end of the day, students				communicated or imparted. This makes the
remain stagnant in their understanding.				teacher a strategic individual with respect to the
Understanding in this respect is not the knowledge				evolution and revolution in civilisation in every
of what has been taught, but the comprehension				generation, leading to regeneration.
of a student out of what was taught, provoked				The development of human potential: Developing
by what was taught. Which implies, what is taught				human potential is an evaluatory criterion of
by a teacher is only effective if it leads the				effective teaching. Human potential are capabilities
students to what was not taught by the teacher				inherent in every human for comprehensive and
but analysed by their understanding.				multipurpose impact. This implies, every human
Every subject effectively taught should culminate				possesses dynamic ability for several areas of
to the enhancement in the understanding of				operation if developed. Effective teaching should
students, leading to areas of thoughts, ideas,				communicate knowledge to assist in developing
inventions, innovations, creations, and discoveries				human potential for deployment with respect to
unmentioned by the teacher. This is when a				time and demand. With this in place, the
teaching program is termed successful and				unemployment question will be a by gone
effective. Understanding is the stability of the				experience, as each individual deploys his/her
mind which makes possible, new and fresh insight,				potential to create work opportunities both for
based on equal and relative functioning of the four				one-self and others. Each teacher should
faculties of the mind.				endeavour through effective teaching to assist
(i)Reasoning faculty				students not only to acquire credentials but to
(ii)Thinking faculty				develop their potential for comprehensive and
(iii)Creative faculty				multipurpose impact. This is the path to individual
(iv)Imaginative faculty				significance and relevance.
With respect to effective teaching, information				The preparation of humans to cope with life's
taught or acquired by a student, should lead the				challenges, privileges, responsibilities and
student to new areas of thinking, reasoning,				opportunities: This is the last criteria to evaluate
creativity and imagination based on understanding.				effective teaching. With this breakthrough, no
This breakthrough permits students to become				individual will be a victim or a failure in life.
improvements of their teachers and also allows				It is worth while to note that, the five evaluatory
for progressive and successive evolutions and				criteria for effective teaching are not possible in
revolutions in human advancement and civilisation.				an institution which does not teach the totality of
The absence of the above breakthrough in most				the tripartite dimension of knowledge. (Ordinary,
teaching exercise is what has caused the present				Advanced and Divine knowledge.
degeneration and degradation in the world.

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Evaluating Effective Teaching