The document provides strategies for excelling as an academician and effective teacher. It discusses that effective teachers facilitate learning, motivate students, create a positive learning environment, trigger critical thinking, and communicate clearly. Additional tips include preparing thoroughly, making every lecture interesting, being accessible, providing personalized instruction, and focusing on basics, applications, and implications. Repetition is important for retention, and teachers should lead by example and develop policies to improve the overall learning environment.
1. Strategies to Excel
as Academicians
Wing Commander
Prof Dr A Kamalakar, PhD, PMP
22 Jun 2015
1401h
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
2. A Teacher
1.Facilitates learning
2.Motivates to acquire knowledge
3.Creates learning atmosphere
through personal conduct and
standards
4.Triggers thinking
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
6. Myths about Lecture
1. Covering information = Teaching
2. Speech making = Instruction
3. No questions = Understanding
4. Pleased group reaction = Learning
5. Academic success = Teaching
skill
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
7. Assumptions
1. If you know it, you can teach it
2. Good teachers are born, not made
3. Silence in the classroom indicates
learning
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
10. Your effectiveness depends on your
ability to reach students while you
teach through effective expression.
-- Ark l’ Shapiro
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
11. Strategies to Excel
1.Prepare thoroughly
2.Teaching is learning twice
3.Aim is not teaching per se but learning
must take place among students
4.Keep every lecture interesting content –
wise, delivery – wise and value - addition
– wise
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
12. 5. Be enthusiastic
6. Be accessible
7. Correct journals, assignments and
answer books with dedication.
Learning takes place in small steps.
8. Implementing small corrections
over a period of time leads to
excellence
9. Aim for one paper per project
guided
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
13. 10. Concentrate on basics
Basics
Applications,
Standards,
Implications,
Commonality
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
14. 11.Counsel and coach
12. Appearance --- elegant and
exemplary, not distracting
13. Personalised instruction
14. Humane approach
15. Provide what you got or wished
you got while you were a student.
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
15. A teacher need not know all the
answers.
But must know where to search for
them !
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
16. I can not teach anybody anything;
I can only make them think !
… Socrates
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
17. ABC … OF TEACHING
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
18. You can not sell them,
if you can not tell them.
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
19. People Remember
1. 10 % of what they read
2. 20 % of what they hear
3. 30 % of what they see
4. 50 % of what they see and hear
5. 80 % of what they say
6. 90 % of what they say and do
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
20. If you tell something without
repetition
After
1. 24 h, 25% have forgotten it
2. 48 h, 50%
3. 72 h, 75%
4. One week, 96% have forgotten it !
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
22. Teaching Leadership
1. Leadership of teaching teams. Leading by
example.
2. Induction of new faculty
3. Leadership of regular faculty
4. Conduct of seminars for colleagues
5. Involvement in seminars
6. Development of policies and procedures
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
23. 16. Learning environment
a) Hardware. Infrastructure
b) Software. Quality of teaching
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
24. 17. Adopt result-producing practices and reject
the worst practices.
18. Inculcate Entrepreneurship (doing everything
on your own)
19. Ownership (Do everything as if you are the
owner) concept.
20. Follow strict personal discipline and stick to
values.
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
25. If students have not understood
your lecture, either you didn’t
1. Know the subject
2. Explain properly
3. Express properly
4. Prepare well
5. Create a conducive learning
environment
6. Have control over the class
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
26. It is not what you tell them
that is important.
It is what they hear.
... Red Anerbach,
Boston Celtics Coach
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
27. Summary
Excellent Teachers….
1. Know what they want to teach
2. Know how to reach
3. Establish and maintain healthy
relationships with students
4. Understand students’ perspectives
5. Listen actively
6. Understand and clarify subject
Copyright @ Dr Arakala Kamalakar 2015
