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conditioning. Learning is how you acquire new information about the world,
and memory is how you store that information over time. There is no
memory without learning, but there is learning without memory.
"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparently ordinary people
to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in
making winners out of ordinary people" (K. Patricia Cross).
This quotation shows a great significance of teaching and the true role of a
teacher. Teaching is not merely to reform students or to make them expert
technicians, it is to widen their horizon; inflame their intellects; and teach
them to be self directed. Therefore teaching in any discipline and
particularly in nursing, should always strive to move beyond simply
divulging of facts and knowledge or even training of certain skills. Instead,
teachers have the broad responsibility of serving as guide and mentor on an
intellectual journey, opening and broadening curious minds by exposing
students to creative thoughts and ideas. This manuscript was prepared after
observing a class of nursing students, conducted by one of the authors, as a
reflective process of faculty in order to portray learning experiences for
better teaching methods.
The concept of teaching is changing drastically in recent times. The
boundaries of knowledge are no longer restricted to textbooks and lectures.
The student of today has access to journals, Internet resources, educational
videos, online conferencing and much more. The basic concept of teaching
is shifting from uni-directional flow of knowledge as in lecturing to more
interactive Teaching Learning sessions. One to one approach, problem based
learning (small group learning), online learning are few of the popular
options.
Self directed learning has been described as “a process in which individuals
take the initiative, with or without the help of others”, to diagnose their
learning needs, formulate learning goals identify resources for learning,
select and implement learning strategies and evaluate learning outcomes.
An education design in which at their own pace, without the aid of an
instructor. It will work well for some educational needs and not well for
others and proved great opportunity for individual learning.
The death kneels for programmed instructions founded in the late 1960s with
push towards.
According to research students have no awareness about self directed
learning in Pakistan because in basic schools mostly traditional way of
teaching are used so in this setting the students can not express their
abilities. How to assess your need for self directed learning in educational
environment. The aim of study is to explore the meaning variation
perceptual experience of phenomenon of self directed learning from the
perspective of the student and investigate factors that facilitate or impede
self directed learning.
Self directed learning is the descriptive model of the life long learning based
entirely on the focus of control for decision making about the objectives and
means of learning.
As a student, getting rapped on the knuckles on a wintry morning because
you did not form a letter correctly was a routine practice of the teachers at
the school which I attended. The teacher entered the room, expecting the
students to copy pages of notes from the chalkboard. The student who
reproduced these without missing a single punctuation mark, spelling
mistake and perfect handwriting got full marks.
In the past forty years not much has changed in the practices of teaching &
learning in Pakistan. The tendency to teach by the method of Repetition -
Conditioning - stimulus-response Pavlovian and operant conditioning &
shaping behavior Skinner - the leading proponents of the Behaviorist styles
of teaching continue.
Having no pedagogy which is the art (Art refers to a diverse range of human
activities and artifacts )or science an effort to discover, understand, or to
understand better, how the physical world work - Pedagogy generally refers
to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction, also sometimes referred
to as the correct use of teaching strategies) along with lack of any serious
study of theories and practices in education around the world and virtual
absence of teacher professional development programs are some of the
causes of the decline in teaching & learning in the schools in Pakistan.