USE OF TEACHING METHODS AT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

To facilitate the process of knowledge transmission, teachers should apply appropriate teaching methods that best suit specific objectives and level exit outcomes. In the traditional teaching-learning mode many practitioners applied teacher-centered teaching methods to impart knowledge to students comparatively student-centered methods. The subject information produced by the learners is remembered better than the same information presented to the learners by the lecturer. The present study has been attempted by the researcher to explore the teaching methods adopted by teachers in formal mode teaching processes. The methods inputs, its operation and utility have been studied with teaching specificity in the Indian context. In formal education system attendance of students in a classroom is a major task. All teacher tries to accept this challenge and work hard to maintain this task. Adunola, 2011 added quite remarkably, regular poor academic performance by the majority students is fundamentally linked to application of ineffective teaching methods by teachers to impart knowledge to learners. This study revealed that even though 20 teaching methods were to be adopted by teachers of four faculties only vert less number of teaching methods practiced. As a whole, a large majority of teacher of art faculty (96.25 percent) adopted lecture method, 78.75 percent teacher of art faculty adopt discussion method. Hand-on-teaching method adopted by science teacher and teacher educators (25.00 percent).