Some Thoughts on Today’s EFLTeaching-Learning

Strategies

Rida Wahyuningrum

English DepartmentAdi Buana PGRI University, Surabaya

REMEMBER THESE

EFL TEACHERS?

A CHANGE IN

CURRICULUM

The theme of 2013 Curriculum is to make Indonesian scholars productive, creative, innovative, affective through the reinforcement of integrated attitude, skill, and knowledge.

Teachers should have professional skill and knowledge in implementing the curriculum in terms of :

1. Effective and meaningful instruction2. Well-organized instruction3. Adequate teaching-learning strategies4. Teaching-learning procedure : competence

and character building5. Criteria of achievement

DESIGNING EFFECTIVE AND MEANINGFUL TEACHING-LEARNING ACTIVITIES

What is meant by effective and meaningful learning? Please, check the following addresses

http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/brief/v5n3/sec3.htmhttp://jennyreiling.efoliomn.com/philosophystatementhttp://notesfromnina.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/3-core-concepts-of-meaningful-learning/http://notesfromnina.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/3-core-concepts-of-meaningful-learning/

2013 Curriculum proposes an effective and meaningful teaching-learning design as follows:

1. Warm Up (inquiry)2. Exploration3. Consolidation4. Competence and character building5. Evaluation

WARM UP (INQUIRY)

1. Starters at the level of students’ schema

2. Encouragement with interesting, stimulating, and useful teaching material

3. Stimulating activities for learning new things

EXPLORATION

1. Introducing competencies to achieve

2. Engaging the new material with that of students’ prior knowledge

3. Selecting appropiate methods in various ways to enhance the students’ understanding towards the new material

CONSOLIDATION

1. Involve students actively in understanding and interpreting the material

2. Involve students actively in the process of problem solving

COMPETENCE AND CHARACTER BUILDING

1. Motivating students to apply concepts, competencies, and character learned in the classroom into their daily lives.

2. Practising concepts, cometencies, and character directly through teaching material and activities so that students are triggered to apply them in their daily lives.

EVALUATION

1. Develop appropriate and accurate assessment.

2. Use the result of assessment to have reflection on taching-learning process (teacher’s and students’ weaknesses, problems in both competence and character building.

Innovative Methods of Teaching

I hear and I forget.I see and I believe.

I do and I understand.

- Confucius

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.-Winston Churchill

MULTIMEDIA LEARNING PROCESS

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Animation

MIND MAP

Innovative way – Mind Map.

Developed by Tony Buzan 1960.

Making notes with keywords and images.

visual and sensory tools at our disposal.

Recollect information for long time.

AN EXAMPLE OF MIND MAP FOR SCALAR QUANTITIES

TEACHING WITH SENSE OF HUMOUR

Laughter is a natural, universal phenomenon, withbeneficial effects, both physical and psychological.

Everyone loves a teacher with an infectious

sense of humor.

Cordial relationship.

Ability to relax people and reduce tension.

Advertising strategy.

Cartoon

When there is a willingness to change, there is hope for progress in any field.

Students enjoys humor in forms of funny anecdotes

MNEMMONICS - WORDS- WORDS –WORDS

APPROACH

Concept approach.

Associated meaning.

Increase word power

Dictionary.

ROLE PLAYING AND SCENARIO ANALYSIS BASED

TEACHING

Role playingPractical approachTheory supplemented by practical.

INNOVATIONS

Internet ready phones

Handheld computers

Digital cameras

Mp3 players

Laptops

E-learning

INNOVATIVE METHODS

• Courses Students’ needs

Industry requirmentsSpecializationMedium

Evaluation &Assessment

+ On-the-Job Training

OUR GOAL: Clarity is the key

TEACHER THE GREATEST INNOVATOR

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

To teach is to learn twice

Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without dominating

The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it affects learning.

LEARNING NEVER ENDS

Rida Wahyuningrum

English DepartmentAdi Buana PGRI University, Surabaya