Exploring Teaching Methods: Insights from Nurturing Student Learning

This article aims to identify new ways to educate students in education and to analyses and describe the current situation based on the results of a quantitative survey. The primary result introduced in this article is the description of the current situation in Iran from the teachers' point of view and the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of different teaching methods in educational practice. The primary research method was participatory observation. This article represents the first part of a broader research that focuses on all participants (teachers, parents, students) in the educational process. The research sample consisted of ۴۲ teachers working in schools, particularly in the ۵th and ۶th grades, they teach courses in Geography, Literature, and History. The research sample selection was limited geographically to the regions of Rasht, Lahijan, Bandar Anzali, and Langarud, i.e., North of Iran. In this area, random stratified sampling was used, where the aim was to obtain teachers from both large, fully organized schools and small schools. From the obtained data, it can be concluded that teachers are internally persuaded of the benefits and necessity of the constructivist education system at school. It manifests in their internal preferences of the teaching methods. Pressure from the system and thereby education providers and parents are so intense that knowledge outweighs the application of the learnings, and schools choose methods that to an intense extent support memorization. This paper is supported by the finding that teachers themselves prefer methods that are more based on the activity of pupils, and therefore they belong more in the framework of the constructivist approach.

Keywords:

Education , teaching Methods , teaching methodology , teacher’s occupation