This document discusses innovative methods of teaching that engage students more actively than traditional lecture-based methods. It analyzes the limitations of traditional "chalk-and-talk" teaching, including that it is a one-way flow of information and lacks student interaction. The document then presents several innovative teaching methods like using multimedia, mind maps, humor, role playing scenarios, and relating concepts to real-world examples. It emphasizes that teaching must involve both sending and receiving information to improve the learning process. Overall, the document advocates for interactive, participatory teaching methods over passive lecture-based methods.

1. Innovative Methods of Teaching
We think of the effective teachers we have had
over the years with a sense of recognition, but
those who have touched our humanity we
remember with a deep sense of gratitude.

2. Dr.V.S.Damodharan and Mr.V.Rengarajan
Faculty, Business Studies Department,
Higher College of Technology
Sultanate of Oman
We think too much about effective methods of teaching
and not enough about effective methods of learning.

3. ABSTRACT/PURPOSE
 Evaluate traditional methods of teaching as well as
multimedia teaching methods
 Teaching must include two major components
sending and receiving information
 Any communication methods that serve this
purpose without destroying the objective could be
considered as innovative methods of teaching.
 Benefits of innovative methods
Improve Learning process
Strengthen governance

4. IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION
 All religions attaches great importance to knowledge
and education.
 When the Qur'an began to be revealed, the first word of
its first verse was 'Iqra' that is, read.
 A scholar (alim) is accorded great respect in the
hadith.
 “Education is the manifestation of perfection already in
man” – (Swami Vivekananda)
 They are not students of our generation, where they sit
down and listen. I think things have changed now; they
want to explore, cut and paste.

5. Pre-technology education context, the teacher is the
sender or the source.
The educational material is the information or
message.
The student is the receiver of the information.
The delivery medium
chalk-and- talk” method
overhead projector (OHP) transparencies.
In such a lecture students assume a purely passive
role and their concentration fades off after 15-20
minutes.
ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL
METHOD OF TEACHING

6. LIMITATIONS
 Teaching in classroom using chalk and talk is “one
way flow” of information
 Teachers often continuously talk for an hour without
knowing students response and feedback.
 The material presented is only based on lecturer notes
and textbooks.
 There is insufficient interaction with students in
classroom.
 More emphasis has been given on theory without any
practical and real life time situations.
 Learning from memorization but not understanding.

7. 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

8. MULTIMEDIA LEARNING PROCESS
Text
Images
Audio
Video
Animation

9. TRADITIONAL AND MULTIMEDIA LEARNING
TRADITIONAL METHOD – A ONE WAY FLOW
STUDENTS
TEACHER
TEACHER
MULTIMEDIA
STUDENT
MULTIMEDIA LEARNING – AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING PROCESS

10. 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.

11. AN EXAMPLE OF MIND MAP
FOR SCALAR QUANTITIES

12. TEACHING WITH SENSE OF
HUMOUR
 Laughter is a natural, universal phenomenon, with
beneficial 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

13. Z TO A APPROACH
This approach attempts to explain the application part of
a particular concept first.
Strengths
 Makes a particular concept clear
 Students develop interest to know exactly the concept.
 Creates long lasting memory/correlation of a concept.
Weaknesses
 Take quite long time for a teacher to introduce a
concept
 Initial difficulty in understanding a particular concept
will be encountered.

14. LEANING TOWER OF PISA EXPERIMENT – EXAMPLE TO
Z – A APPROACH

15. Concept Simulation - reenacts Galileo's experiment
of two different objects falling at the same rate.

16. MNEMMONICS - WORDS- WORDS –
WORDS APPROACH
 Concept approach.
 Associated meaning.
 Increase word power
 Dictionary.
ROLE PLAYING AND SCENARIO
ANALYSIS BASED TEACHING
Role playing
Practical approach
Theory supplemented by practical.

17. INNOVATIONS
Internet ready phones
Handheld computers
Digital cameras
Mp3 players
Laptops
Elearning

18. INNOVATIVE METHODS
 Courses  Students’ needs
 Industry requirments
Specialization
Medium
 Evaluation
&Assessment
+ On-the-Job Training
OUR GOAL: Clarity is the key

19. 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