SEVEN PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD PRACTICE

By. Mr. Teacher

Apathetic students illiterate graduates, incompetent teaching, fair campus – so rolls the drumfire criticism from higher education. More than two years of reports have spelled out the problem. States have been quick to respond by holding out carrots and beating with sticks.

There are not enough carrots or sticks enough to improve undergraduate education without the commitment and actions of students and faculty members. They are valuable resources on the improvement of undergraduate education depends.

But how can students and faculty members improve undergraduate education? Many campuses across the country who ask this question. Provide a focus for their work, we offer seven principles based on research both teaching and learning at the university.

Both in graduate education:

1. encourage contact between students and faculty,

2. develop cooperation and exchange of students,

3. encourage active learning,

4. provide prompt feedback,

5. emphasis on the task,

6. communicate high expectations, and

7. respect the different talents and learning styles.

We can do it yourself – with a little help from

Seven principles are not ten commandments shrunk to the 20 century. Attention span. They are intended as guidelines for faculty members, students, and administrators – with support from donors and trustees – to improve teaching and learning. These principles seem like good common sense, and they – because many teachers and students have experienced them and because research supports them. They rest on 50 years of research on how teachers teach and students learn, how students work and play with each other, and how students and faculty talking to one another.

While each practice can stand on its own self, and all the effects present when they multiply. Together they employ six powerful forces in the field of education:

#Summary,

#Hope,

#Cooperation

#Interaction,

#Difference, and

#Responsibility.

Continue to practice as professional as a means to a program for liberal arts. They work for different types of students – white, black, Hispanic, Asian, rich, poor, old, young, men, women, well prepared, underprepared.

But how to implement various institutions were dependent on both students and their circumstances. What follows, we describe the various approaches that have been used in various kinds of settings in the last few years. In addition, the strong implications of these principles to the way state and government funds for higher education and how institutions are run are discussed briefly at the end.

As a member of faculty, academic administrators, students and personnel staff, we spend most of our lives working to try to understand our students, our colleagues, our institutions and ourselves. We have conducted research on higher education with dedicated colleagues in the various schools in the country. With the implications of this research to practice, we hope can help us all better.

Address our teachers do, not the subject-matter what, the good practices in undergraduate education. We realize that content and pedagogy interact in complex ways. We are also aware that there are many healthy ferment within and between disciplines. What is taught, after all, is at least as important as what is taught. Contrast with the long history of research in teaching and learning, there is little research on the school curriculum. We can not, therefore, responsible for making recommendations about the content of good undergraduate education. Work which has not been done. This much we can say: “An undergraduate education should prepare students to understand and deal intelligently with modern life. What’s better to start, but in the classroom and on our campus? What better time than now?

Seven Principles of Good Practice.

1. Encourages Contact Between Students and Faculty

Often the student-faculty contact in and outside the classroom is the most important factor in student motivation and involvement. Faculty concern helps students get through rough times and continue to work. Knowing a few faculty members improve student intellectual commitment and encourages them to think about values and their own future plans.

2. Develop cooperation and exchange between students

Learn more enhanced when the team effort as a solo race. Learn both, as well, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated. Working with others often increase involvement in learning. Share your own ideas and respond to other reactions sharpens thinking and deepens understanding.

3. Encourage active learning

Learning is not a spectator sport. Students do not learn much just by sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-package tasks, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they learned, to write about this, related to past experience and apply to their lives daily. They must make what they learn part of themselves.

4. Provide Feedback Request

Knowing what you know and do not know focuses learning. Students need appropriate feedback on performance to benefit from the course. When you start, students should assist in assessing the knowledge and competencies that exist. In class, students often need the opportunity to perform and receive suggestions for improvement. At various points during college, and in the end, students need opportunities to reflect on what they have learned, what they still need to know, and how to assess themselves.

5. Emphasize time on task

Added energy is the same as the time to learn. There is no substitute for time on task. Learning to use one’s time is important for both students and professionals alike. Students must help in learning effective time management. Allocating realistic amount of time means effective learning for students and effective teaching for faculty. How an institution set expectations for the students, faculty, administrators, staff and other professionals can form the basis of high performance for all.

6. Communicating high expectations

Expect more and you’ll get more. High expectations are important for everyone – be prepared for bad, for those not willing to try their own, and for the bright and well motivated. Expecting students to perform well become a self-fulfilling prophecy when teachers and institutions hold high expectations for themselves and make extra efforts.

7. Respect the different talents and the way

There are many roads to learning. People bring different talents and learning styles to the university. Brilliant students in the seminar room May clumsy in the lab or art studio. Students rich in hands-on experience may not do so well with theory. Students need the opportunity to show their talents and learn in ways that work for them. Then they can be encouraged to learn in new ways that do not come so easily.

Teachers and students who hold the primary responsibility for improving undergraduate education. But they need more assistance. College and university leaders, state and federal officials, and accrediting associations have the power to shape an environment that is good for both in higher education.

What is the quality of the environment must have this?

#A strong sense of shared purpose.

#Concrete support from administrators and faculty leaders for those purposes.

#Funds are sufficient in accordance with the goals.

#Policies and procedures are consistent with the goals.

#Continuing the examination of how well goals are achieved.

There is good evidence that the environment can be created. When this happens, faculty members and administrators about themselves as educators. Adequate resources are put in to create opportunities for faculty members, administrators, and students to celebrate and reflect together with their goals. Faculty members receive support and release time for professional development activities. Criteria for hiring and promoting faculty members, administrators, staff and supports the purpose institution. Advising is important. Department, program, and classes are small enough to allow faculty members and students to have a sense of community, the value of their contributions, and to face the consequences of their failure.

Country, the federal government and accrediting associations affect the kind of environment that can be developed on campus in various ways. The most important is through the allocation of financial assistance. Also affect both countries by encouraging sound planning, setting priorities, mandate standards, and review and approve the program. Regional and professional accrediting associations require self-assessment and peer review of the law in making program and institute.

Sources of support and influence can encourage environments for education in both undergraduate by:

#Setting a policy that is consistent with both in undergraduate education,

#Hold high expectations for institutional performance,

#Regulations to maintain a minimum of bureaucracy that is compatible with public accountability,

#Allocating adequate funding for new graduate programs and professional development of faculty members, administrators, and staff,

#Encourage the employment of the under-represented groups among administrators, faculty members, students and professional services, and

#Provide support to programs, facilities, and financial assistance necessary for good practice in undergraduate education.

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