COVERING THE BASICS

Covering the Basics

Covering the Basics

Introduction

This article considers three peer-reviewed journal articles, one book chapter, and one scholarly resource as its source documents by providing their title, citation, keywords used, relevant database, comments on present skill level and need for additional skills in database usage.

Discussion

Through this work the purpose is to accommodate the knowledge and learning different methods and teaching techniques, the organization according to the activities in class and the constant search for improvement in the quality of learning studying teaching methods individually and socialized and as the more than twenty existing teaching techniques and recognized today.

Article title

Article citation

Database

Keywords

Search limiters

Skills in this database

Reflections on Teaching Qualitative Methods in Geography

Berg, B. (2001), “Qualitative research methods for the social sciences”, Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

SAGE

Teaching methods

2009-2012 publications

Intermediate

Biographies of Key Contributors in the Field

Hanley-Maxwell, Cheryl, and Lana Collet-Klingenberg. "Biographies of Key Contributors in the Field". Education. Ed. Cheryl Hanley-Maxwell, Lana Collet-Klingenberg, and Gary L. Albrecht. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2011. Reference Online. 23rd, Mar, 2012.

SAGE

Effective Teaching methods

File type: pdf

Advanced

University Teaching

Anderson, L.W. Krathwohl, D.R. Airasian, P.W. Cruikshank, K.A. Mayer, R.E. Pintrich, P.R., et.al,(Eds.). (2001), “Taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives”, New York: Longman.

SAGE

University teaching

2008-2012 publications

Advanced

Researching into teaching methods in colleges and universities

Researching into teaching methods in colleges and universities

By Clinton Bennett, Lorraine Foreman-Peck, Chris Higgins

Google books

Teaching methods

Books

Intermediate

Teaching Methods

Beashel, P. & Taylor, J. (1996), “Advanced Studies in Physical Education and Sport”, UK: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd.

Google

Teaching methods

WebPages

Intermediate

Usefulness of each database:

The SAGE library database was quite useful as its search options were diverse with year of publication mentioned against each search item. The reference and citations were also mentioned in the article that can be followed for further reading. The Google books on comparison were quite generic but there were very few citations and references.

New ideas and discoveries from search:

The methods and techniques of teaching, independent of the theories that originate must abide by some common principles, taking into account the educational development and maturity achieved so far. The following are the principles and a brief description of some of them:

Proximity principle: Integrate education as close as possible in everyday life of the learner.

Principle direction: Render clear and precise objectives to be achieved.

Principle itself and continues up: One tries to respect individual differences, not demanding the same implementation of all learners.

Ordering principle: With the establishment of an order is to facilitate the learning task.

Principle ...