NAN-H-61
Teaching
By Chiazo Ogbolu
Lagos, Nov. 11, 2016 (NAN) The Emeritus Professor of Education, Prof. Pai Obanya, of the University of Ibadan, on Friday called for the adoption of a new teaching method that goes beyond telling.
He made this known at the 2nd edition of the Microsoft and Fliplearn Creativity in Learning in Lagos.
Obanya, who spoke on the “Teaching for Learning in the Context of the 21st Century,’’ insisted that teachers must be prepared to change their teaching methodology.
“Teachers will need to be re-profiled and teaching must go beyond mere telling,’’ he said.
“The 21st Century is one of turbulence and has led to radical and rapid changes in the way we live; learn, and work.
“Education and teaching must adopt the requirements of these changing times to remain qualitative and relevant.
Obanya said that for the teachers to adopt such, their skills should no longer be just subject and methods but life-long learning skills.
He also said that the life-long skills would enable the teachers to be able to impact the needed knowledge and the regenerative knowledge to the children.
Obanya said that a regenerative knowledge would enable the student generate more knowledge and be able to adapt to what the world provides.
He said that for a teacher to excel and get the best out of the children, “he had to be kind; compassionate; positive; be a builder, empathetic and inspire.’’
“What you know remains important but it must fully complement with who you are and what you can do with what you know through who you are,’’ Obanya said.
He, however, listed some rules that would guide them in teaching as, to remember at all times that teaching is not simply telling, a highly interactive activity drives process.
“Others are that a teacher is considered successful only if the learner has learnt; teaching becomes rewarding only when the job is mastered.
He said that teachers transformed lives through creative teaching and its effect on learners was that they would be flexible, diverse in the activities and be able to face challenges.
Obanya said that when the lives of the children are transformed, it would remove the spectre of un-employability such as; ill-prepared, ill-informed and ill-equipped. (NAN)
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(Edited by Abdullahi Mohammed and Adeleye Ajayi)