Feelings About Teaching

At this stage, I feel teaching in the classroom is becoming easier. Because my role as a teacher is centered on identifying information sources which are in with my teaching syllabus, unfold it to my students and the give them freedom to explore it in a group at free will, then later I guide them.

I have tried the various approaches to teaching and learning inclusive the constructivism approach even before this course but precisely I never knew exactly what I was doing and it was done on a try and error basis. How ever after this exposure to the theory is self and the healthy debate with my ccti course-mates, I have discovered many advantages of the constructivism theory which I feel any teacher should adapt to:

First, it makes learners discover answers to problems by themselves which makes them actively involved in the learning process and not just going in for rote learning.

Secondly students are always challenged to think of new ways of solving problems by reading a head of the teacher and to discover their capabilities by themselves. this speeds up the learning process.

In the debate, one of our colleagues mentioned it that it is likely to breed job creators than job seekers because the hands on solutions to the problems at school does not differ much from the field challenges in the job market.

The Constructivism approach creates permanent to an individual because it is that student who finds solutions to the challenges at hand.

Moreover students can like their studies more if they choose what to learn about , compared to when they do study because they are commanded to go to school and study by their parents, and also their teachers begin the rote teaching.

On the other hand, a blend of both the Victorian way of teaching and a Constructivism approach are both needed in the Ugandan curriculum because it is quite difficult to change instantly a system of teaching and learning which is deep seated in the education system of Uganda where a student has to be assessed basing on the correct answers given to a structured question on paper which is in line with the pre-set curriculum.'the Bureaucratic Automatic Machinery'.

Also, It is difficult to cater for some learners who are intra-personal since learners have to work in a group and collectively find a solution to a given task.

 

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