WHERE IS THE PROBLEM IN EDUCATION: THE TEACHER OR THE METHOD?
Keywords:
education, teacher, teaching methods, educational problems, teaching effectiveness, pedagogical competenceAbstract
This article looks at what's going wrong with education. It tries to figure out if the main problems are because of the teacher or the teaching methods that the teacher uses. The article wants to know if the teacher is the problem or if it is the way that the teacher is teaching that's the problem. It is looking at the teacher and the teaching methods to see what is going wrong, with education. The main goal of this study is to find out what things hurt the process. The results show that problems with education are really about how the teacher can use methods, not the methods. In conclusion, improving educational quality depends on developing teachers’ professional competence and using teaching methods appropriately.
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