A Practical Guide to Effective Post Secondary Teaching and Learning
Chapter 2 - Organizing and Teaching to Meet Student Needs
An effective educator must know their teaching material and discipline. Teacher knowledge and experience forms the essence of post secondary instruction. It is however more imperative to plan for what and how a student would come to understand the content or concepts, what questions or concerns students might have, to be able to explain or model topics/concepts/skills in easy to understand ways, to identify reasonable expectations, select appropriate teaching methods and material, relate topics to real life, and find ways to assess their learning in meaningful and practical ways