Factors Affecting Classroom Teaching

V.Harikrishnan (Author)
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science. KSR College of Arts and Science, Tiruchengode, Tamilnadu, India hari_v85@hotmail.com
Abstract What makes good education is widely debated however it is not disputed that quality education is a necessary precondition for delivering good education. This paper focuses on the internal and external factors which affects the students learning process. An indirect objective of this paper is to provide a quality education to the students that enable them to survive in this competitive world. The internal factors such as the syllabi, presentation mode, etc and external factors such as Class room, furniture etc makes a huge impact on the performance of the student. So the best mix of these factors should be provided to get the best out of the students.

Mr.M.Prakasam (Author),
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science. KSR College of Arts and Science, Tiruchengode, Tamilnadu, India Prakash_mr@rediffmail.com II. LEARNERS We should first make our students to be a Learner instead of keeping him as just a student, because a student always does things on a compulsion, whereas learners do it with their own interest. If we find the difference between a student and a learner, then we can step up to make this possible.
TABLE 1. DIFFERENCE STUDENTS AND LEARNERS

Students Relationship Students are with educators employees, expected to obediently follow instructions. Relationship with other Students Motivation Students are competitors

Learners Learners are citizens with a vested interest in the learning society.

I. I. INTRODUCTION What makes good education is widely debated however it is not disputed that quality education is a necessary precondition for delivering good education. But, this paper focuses on the internal and external factors which affects the students learning process. An indirect objective of this paper is to provide a quality education to the students that enable them to survive in this competitive world. By providing the right mix of instruments (Teachers Quality, Environment, Processes, etc), education can be taken to the next level where students will not think of education as a burden. Here we could see some aspects which affect the Teaching-Learning process. A quality education will require these aspects:

Learners are collaborators

Make your students to be Learners Keep Classroom Environment to be healthy Content Processes used to deliver the content Analyze the Outcomes Compensation

Obligation: Responsibility: Students are Learners are culturally motivated by an obliged to work understood and for the teacher realized value in & for their work, compensation especially when it is valuable to others. Institutiondefined grades and gateways to college (another institution) and a good job (another institution) A sense of ongoing accomplishment that is not delivered but earned, and not symbolic but tangible and valuable an investment.

Let us consider all these aspects for a college.

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Mode of Operation

Compliant, groupdisciplined, objectiveoriented, and trainable

Persevering, selfdisciplined, group-, goal-and productoriented, resourceful, and learning in order to produce and accomplish rather than simply achieving learning. Curious

A. Colors This is one of the external factors which affects the students mindset. Why is color such a powerful force in our lives? What effects can it have on our bodies and minds? There are some color effects that have universal meaning. Colors in the red area of the color spectrum are known as warm colors and include red, orange and yellow. These warm colors evoke emotions ranging from feelings of warmth and comfort to feelings of anger and hostility. Colors on the blue side of the spectrum are known as cool colors and include blue, purple and green. These colors are often described as calm, but can also call to mind feelings of sadness or indifference. Several ancient cultures, including the Egyptians and Chinese, practiced chromotherapy, or using colors to heal. Chromotherapy is sometimes referred to as light therapy or colourology and is still used today as a holistic or alternative treatment. Variety of color is important. Dark, highly saturated colors can be used strategically in a classroom to avoid distraction from equipment like televisions, video monitors and projectors. In classrooms, students and teachers need to feel stimulated and motivated, but not so much so that the colors discourage concentration. An effective technique is to paint the teaching wall a deeper or brighter shade than is used on the sidewalls. This does two things: It attracts attention to the front of the classroom, yet the eyes get a visual break when focus is shifted to the sidewalls. B. Mobile Furniture One of the most important factors of designing a perfect classroom is the good selection of furniture. We wanted to have such tables and chairs, which allow for an easy and quick rearrangement of the room for different types of learning (frontal teaching, individualized learning, pair study or group work). Therefore, we designed mobile furniture, which means tables mounted on wheels and rolling chairs, which makes possible to reach the desired rearrangement of the furniture within three minutes. Trapezium-shaped tables make possible to higher the variability of the sitting order

Why? Equipped

Compelled

..with packaged ..with tools for knowledge and exploring a tools for networked variety recording of content, packaged experimenting with knowledge that content, and prescribed and discovering, paced learning concluding, and constructing knowledge selfinvented learning Measuring Measuring what the what has been learner can do with learned. what has been learned.

Assessment

So, the students ultimately do things on a compulsion. It is the responsibility of the teacher to create interest in the subject and make them to be active in the classroom. Once they start to listen, they will start to interact with the staff member which makes the session to be lively. Give the students a chance to form a group and do some activities that will enhance their learning ability. III. ENVIRONMENT Building an Ideal Classroom is a tough ask considering the scenario of any Arts and Science Colleges. But if it is done, then the students will feel a lot better and it gives a different feel to the students as well as the staff members. Wall Colors Mobile furniture Whiteboards

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sanitary. Also, since they require the use of modern inked markers, users do not have to worry about getting their hands grubby anymore. A white board can be used to jot down lectures, plot graphs, make diagrams, sketch drawings, etc. With the use of multi-colored markers, presentations and lectures can be enhanced and made more attractive and attentiongrabbing. And the thought that the annoying, earsplitting sound sometimes emitted by chalks on blackboards can be completely erased from memory, further makes white boards a favorite on campus IV. CONTENT The Curriculum should emphasize deep rather than broad coverage of important areas of knowledge. It should focus mainly on providing the basic concepts clearly. . For Under Graduate Programmes, instead of framing an advanced curriculum, it will be wise to keep the basic subjects. In all content areas, curriculum should be based on clearly defined learning outcomes and these outcomes should be properly sequenced. The order in which the subjects are placed in each semester should also be considered. The allied/Interdisciplinary course selected should complement the core papers. The choice of text book is also important and it should be fixed based on the level of students. Most foreign authors use English will be tough for a student to refer and understand the content. Also the book selected should have the essence of the subject well presented V. PROCESSES Apart from delivering the content in the syllabus, it will be good if the staff members prepare a Course plan which should have information as follows: Objective of the Subject (Why this particular subject has been included in the curriculum), Genesis of the Subject (History of the subject with timeline), Topics Hierarchy (A blue print of the syllabus with the topics ordered in a hierarchical manner), Related Subjects (The technologies/subjects related to the subject), Applications (The list of applications which are created by taking this subject as base), New Trends (The current trends in existence of the subject), Key Terms (Key terms of the subject), Job Opportunities (The job openings a student may get who learns this subject), Text Books/Reference Books, Website References/ Journals /Magazines. In its most fundamental definition the use of multisensory media in education is identical to multimedia in education. Multi-sensory learning does not require

Figure 1. Possible Furniture Arrangements As in the above diagram, the chairs can be rearranged to give a different feel for different subjects. For Example, some subjects may require the students to form a group and do things as a group. Some faculty may require their students to sit in a position which should look like surrounding him, so that everybody in the classroom feels like sitting in the first row of the classroom. These kinds of different arrangements will give some sort of different feel to the students inside the same classroom. C. Whiteboards The use of whiteboards instead of black boards is suggested. The blackboard and chalk partnership domination was ousted by white boards when students and teachers alike grew increasingly agitated over their pitfalls. Chalk is made up of mineral called gypsum. It gives off a powder that was a huge irritant to the respiratory tract. In fact, some students and teachers actually suffered from respiratory problems due to chalk dust. Also, blackboards and chalks can get quite messy, especially with that not-so-ingenious method of erasing the writings done on the board. Aside from dust and powder flying in all directions, the persons hands also tend to get covered up in residue. Additionally, unlike the white board, a blackboard can get easily stained with frequent use. 1). Advantages of a White Board White boards entered the campus scene around the 80s. They are dust-free, powder-free, and more

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a computer. Obviously, before computers, teachers experimented in the combination of media content using paper cut and paste approaches to illustrate ideas. These early approaches have been providing results comparable to multimedia, albeit arguably with less efficiency, and much more limiting in scope and reach. Multimedia computing, therefore, in many ways relates more to function than to form. Digital multimedia provides opportunities for enhancing two basic aspects of educational use of multimedia: authoring and interactivity. Multimedia, a combination of various digital media such as images, sound, video and text which together compiles an integrated multi-sensory interactive application to present the information to an audience. According to Agnew, Kellerman and Meyer (1996) multimedia means an individual or a small group using a computer to interact with information that is represented in several media, by repeatedly selecting what to see and hear next. Using multimedia in education results in the increasing productivity, because people remember 20% of what they see, 40% of what they see and hear, but about 75% of what they see and hear and do simultaneously. It means, by using multimedia tools we can create a learning environment, where the communication of the information can be done in a more effective manner and it can be an effective instructional medium for delivering information. Multimedia in education is first a form of authoring, that is, integrating multiple types of media around an educational theme and objective, and making it available to students in a learning context such as a classroom directed by teacher, or a self-instruction situation driven by a student or student group. Authoring also provides a fundamental form of interactivity in the process of composing multimedia material, and then in the experience of using the educational material. Interactive software provides opportunities for other forms of interactivity when the multimedia composition includes programming logic that allows students to use and probe the learning module such as question-and-answer interactions, or researching material by following a particular trail of content around some self-directed interest. Authoring and interactivity also characterize non-computer approaches to using multiple media, but computers provide a potential advantage in supporting a more decentralized, and in some ways richer environment for learning.

Digital multimedia learning environments will not replace teachers, but we believe they have great potential for complementing classroom learning. The use of digital camera to shoot the seminars and presentations given by students will help the students to realize what they do on the dais. They were able to assess their performance and it provides a way to correct even their small mistakes that were done unknowingly. VI. OUTCOMES An important and often overlooked element of evaluating teaching is an accurate description of a professors teaching. Such a description should include the number and level and kinds of classes taught, the numbers of students, and out-of-class activities related to teaching. Such data should be very carefully considered both to guard against drawing unwarranted conclusions and to increase the possibilities of fairly comparing workloads and kinds of teaching, of clarifying expectations, and of identifying particulars of minimum and maximum performance. Another kind of data that should be systematically gathered and examined by the teachers colleagues includes course syllabi, tests, materials, and methods employed in instruction. Care should be taken that such scrutiny not inhibits the teacher limit the variety of effective teaching styles, or discourage purposeful innovation. On the other side, the multimedia learning environments will surely make an impact on the students. The environment (the external factors) also will keep the students to feel a lot more comfortable.

VII. CONCLUSION As discussed in this paper, most of the factors that affects student learning dealt with external causes (furniture, wall colors, white board). However, a very critical factor is the students willingness to learn. If a student is eager, motivated, or goal oriented, the likelihood is that student will learn. If not, the student may regurgitate the education given to him or her but not retain it. The thing here is, sometimes these external factors may create some sort of interest on the students to stay focused during the class hours. So adopting (some of) these facilities may find a way to

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make the students feel comfortable and active in the classroom.

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