1. PARTICIPATORY TEACHING LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR YOUNG TEACHERS
Dr. A. Devaraj
HETL Liaison of India
Director, Training & Placement &
Senior Faculty in English, Loyola College, Chennai 34

2. What is teaching?
“A set of complex skills employed to realize a specified set of instructional objectives”
The complexity is based on: 1. Behavior,
2. Attitude, 3. Learning, 4. Catholicity,
5. Transparency & 6. Patience

3. Teaching Skills Analytical & reasoning skill
Ability to realize & correct mistakes
Turn taking ability
Comprehension
Questioning
Knowledge dissemination
Information transfer

4. T.S… Cheerful & cooperative Pacing the lessons Moderation
Diagnostic skill
Remediation
Relational
Evaluation

5. What is Learning?
A permanent change in behavior after undergoing a particular experience
The kinds of learning:
Single loop learning
Double loop learning
Deutero learning

6. What is learning? Knowledge acquisition: What is knowledge?
To know that you know
To know that you don’t know
To know what you don’t know &
To know that you should not know that

7. Wisdom Wise is he who learns from books
Wiser is he who learns from experience &
Wisest is he who learns from others’ experience
We should be : wise
wiser
wisest

8. Curriculum & Content Internationalize your curriculum
Incorporate multinational experience & thought
Culturally inclusive
Include international issues
Kindle them to think nationally, internationally & globally

9. Staff
Have international links with your colleagues, former colleagues, etc
Get linked to LI’s HETL
Create links with international companies & institutions
Establish networks
Establish student, staff exchange

10. Students Encourage students to question
Allow them present their cases, projects, papers, etc
Teach & practise ‘research skills’
Fuel their imagination & creativity

11. Participatory Teaching Learning Strategies
Brain storming
G.D.
Presentation
Socratic method
Case study method
Small scale research
Survey methods
Projects & term papers

12. Methods PPTs Role play Turn taking Hand outs for discussion Quizzes
Zero hour
Mock press

13. Methods… Seminars Term paper presentation Brain storming Brain writing
Panel discussion
Mock viva
Market survey

14. Participatory Teaching - Learning Cycle
Training the instructors
Plan
Teach
Interact
Feed- back Collection
Reorganize

15. What are the PTL Skills?
1. Questioning: lead, probing, door openers, clarificatory, classificatory, etc
2. Kindling interest
3. Experience sharing
4. Encouraging innovation
5. Turn- taking
6. Reinforcement skills

16. What are the PTL Skills? 7. Silence 8. Explaining & illustrating
9. Example- giving
10. Effective use of BB, PPT, etc
11. Encouraging learners’ discussion
12. Parliamentary methods/ words
13. Cheerful & lively

17. Skills… 14. Alfred Hitchcock formula 15. Learning to question
16. Responding to queries
17. Moderation
18. Behavior modification
19. Synthesizing & winding up
20. Effective classroom management

18. Benefits of PTL 1. Keen observation 2. Active Listening
3. Positive Interaction
4. Recall of content/ Recollection of the process
5. Defining the concept

19. Benefits… 6. Simulation 7. Micro-teaching
8. Appreciation of Teaching skills & techniques
9. Immediate Evaluation
10. Constructive criticism
11. Transparency

20. Thanks a lot!