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Lexford Johnson Post 1

• 8 March 2021, 11:13 AM

Active Teaching

Active teaching engages both the teacher and the students. It allows a conscious attempt to bring students to discover their own strengths and weaknesses. The role of the teacher is facilitator of students' academic and social growth, where students become aware of and take responsibility for their own learning. The teacher actively plans for and guide the students along a continuum that makes learning more purposeful for the students.

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FLORENCE KISIRKOI Post 2 in reply to 1

• 8 March 2021, 9:10 PM

In active teaching all are included in the learning process; the teacher and the learner- where the teacher is the facilitator, carefully in control but learning too and guiding the learning process.

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Rose Nyambura Post 3 in reply to 2

• 8 March 2021, 11:34 PM • Edited by the author on 8 March 2021, 11:35 PM

Florence, it is of paramount importance that teacher educators at higher institutions of learning (Universities) in Kenya produce teachers who clearly understand the concept of LCE. All teacher trainers need to be inducted but some are clearly stuck in the traditional lecture methods!!! This is a great challenge but with continous workshops organised at departmental and school/faculty level, LCE education will become a reality.

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FLORENCE KISIRKOI Post 4 in reply to 1

• 10 March 2021, 4:14 AM

You are right Lexford in active teaching all learners are engaged in learning activities where the teacher is a facilitator. Now let us think of this scenario where teachers have never been exposed to that kind of teaching and they are working with large classes of about 70 students in high school.

Think of another scenario where teacher educators are preparing teachers in large classes of 300 hundred students. the teacher educators themselves have never been exposed to active learning let alone the student teachers they are preparing to teach. How can we intervene in such situations. These are true scenarios in Sub Saharan Africa schools and higher education  institutions of teacher preparation.