INTERACTIVE TEACHING METHODS: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES

Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 9, 544 - 548, 27.12.2017

Madona Giorgdze Marine Dgebuadze

https://doi.org/10.18768/ijaedu.370419

Cited By: 23

Abstract

Georgian educational system has gone through the traditional
methods of teaching. One of the main forms of teaching in high school was a
lecture, during which the lecturer was a transmitter and the student was a
recipient of knowledge.

Integration with modern Euro-Atlantic educational space
requires modernization of existing learning methods and the introduction of
modern activities in the process of learning that will facilitate the
establishment of an active, independent and free person with critical thinking.
Western
education system became the main focus of the Georgian educational policy.

The
educational strategy has been changed and its main purpose has become bringing
up of free, active, informed and responsible citizens, equipped with the skills
of critical thinking and loyal to the modern democratic community in order to
meet the demands of present-day democratic society.

The analysis of the research results shows that interactive
teaching best helps students to get maximum involvement in the lecturing
process. The student is not only a passive recipient of knowledge, who is
constantly in the position of the listener but is actively involved in the
lecturing process and gets maximum knowledge. As a result, the information
received is remembered for a longer time.

Recent
studies show that interactive learning helps the learner not only to easily
acquire new material but to memorize it for a longer period of time.

The
article does not attempt to contrast interactive and traditional methods but
rather to highlight advantages of the interactive method and underline its
effectiveness to activate creative thinking, analytic and argumentation skills
in students.

Keywords

Interactive Teaching, traditional methods, teacher’s role

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