1. Good teaching : Memorization or Understanding
Dr. Md. Shahadat Hossain Khan
Assistant Professor
Department of Technical and Vocational Education (TVE)
Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh
Mob:

2. Main focus Recent trends in Teaching and Learning
New concepts in teaching and learning
Where we are and what we can do !!

3. Trends: University teaching and learning
40 years
2000-NOW

4. Findings: common perspective “Teaching”
Intermediate ?
Learning -focused
Content-focused

5. Students’ Learning
Learning
Surface level
Deep level

6. Relation between Teaching and Learning
Content-focused
Teaching
Surface level learning

7. Learning focused
Teaching
Deep learning

8. Teacher-Centered –Surface learning (Memorization)
‘Very simple, IT enables me to use my own notes, so I am just, conveying my notes to them’..(Teacher’s View )
‘I hate to say it, but what you have got to do is to have a list of ‘facts’; you write down ten important points and memorize those, then you’ll do all right in the test….then you’ll get a good mark’….(Student’s view) .

9. Student-centered---Deep learning (Understanding)
“They [students] do research on what is happening [in the industry], for example, in the latest cabling structure, information, or in wireless technology or fibre optic, although it depends on the topic, or how to configure a router or how to do problem solving. So the skills that they are developing, I think, are much broader than the actual requirement of the unit”(Teacher’s View )
‘‘We were able to discuss various ways of tackling problems, not just going by the book, but rather thinking of ‘real-world’ issues. From our conversations, we were able to learn about mobile communication from another’s perspective.’’ (student’s view)

10. “One of the aims of a engineering education is a high- quality learning outcome, the research on student learning consistently confirm that to achieve that aim surface approaches to learning should be discouraged and deep approaches to learning is encouraged” (Prosser & Trigwell, 1999, p.97 )
Good teaching is based on constructive alignment, that is, teacher support of a student's deep approach to learning (Biggs 2003, p. 11)

11. Source: (Kember & Kwan, 2000)

12. Recent innovation: teaching approach
Psychological perspective
Phenomenographic/Phenomenological
perspective
Lecture method
Demonstration method
Group discussion method
Problem solving method
Project method
A teacher-focused, information-oriented strategy
A teacher-focused, feedback-oriented strategy
A teacher-focused, practice-oriented strategy
A learning-focused, facilitation-oriented strategy
A learning-focused, industry-oriented strategy

13. Discussion