Methodology of Teaching

This paper includes my own critical reflection about this course and how it helped me develop and improve through out the year.

Methodology of Teaching is a course that has a package of all the important themes such as: classroom management, effective teaching, teaching planning, student diversity, capitalizing on social interaction, problem-based interaction, constructivism approach, and increasing learning student involvement.
These themes help the teacher improve and develop in her career.
This diversity of themes helped me as a teacher to see clearly where are my weak points in order to correct them, develop and improve.

The lesson Teaching Planning increased my information about how a teacher should include the objectives, materials, activities, closure and evaluation in an effective lesson plan. It helped me know better how my goals should be reached and how the objectives set up should be achieved.
The Classroom Management lesson was very interesting and helpful as well. It opened my eyes to see the big student diversity found in my classroom. This diversity was an obstacle for me at the beginning .
After the deep explanation that Dr. Mohayyar provided about Classroom Management and Student Diversity, it became easier for me to work in my class and in other classes and levels too.
It pushed me to understand students’ characters and try to dive deeply in their personality.
Now it is easier for me to manage with students who have different levels of maturity, cultural and background experiences, languages and learning styles.


Increasing Learning Student Involvement lesson made me realize that students learn more and retain information longer when they are put in active roles than they do when passively receiving information from others.

On the other hand, this course improved my self-confidence and self-esteem and motivated me to give my best in presenting my projects infront of the class.
The projects that I was working on, built in me a creativity that I thought it was not found.
The reflection papers that were given to us helped me develop my critical thinking and know better how to arrange my ideas.

As a teacher and as a teaching diploma student, I had to make observations in different classes. It was easy for me to focus on important points in each class because I got a rich background about Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Since this is my first year in teaching, I was not able to use or experience everything yet.
But I am sure that this course will follow me through out all my teaching years and will help me teach better and learn more.
And the presentation of each lesson that Dr. Al Mohayyar provided us on a clear power point will be my reference whenever is needed.

I am sure that this course will help me improve and develop the quality of my teaching learning process .

A special thanks for Dr. Rabih because he was always ready to answer our questions and ready to correct us in a good and motivated way.