My Teaching Strategies
As an educator, I always looking forward to vary my style of teaching. Since I always teach a calculation-based courses such as Control System and Thermo Fluid, the style of teaching can be quite challenging. Moreover, pandemic that happened make most educators switch their teaching strategies as fully e-learning based by using ULearn platform. This is become more challenging because educator must creatively think about teaching strategies that compatible with e-learning or other online platform. Online platform such as telegram, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom or Google Meet are really a helpful platform for synchronous and asynchronous learning. All the way, thanks to this pandemic because most educator have to be fast learner and try to be familiarize with such terms to become millenial educator faster than we thought.
The other challenges that we face as an educator for engineering courses are practical/hands on courses. How to switch these hands on module to be fully online learning. For example, manufacturing workshop, engineering lab and etc. More or less, some module have to be taught by constructively analysing case study and give many examples.
Years before COVID19 happened, I promoted active learning as well as class discussion, experiential learning, inquiry based learning and collaborative learning in my classroom and laboratory session. However, starting early 2020, I introduce modern teaching methods in synchronous and asynchronous learning. Online learning is about engagement. There are three engagement in learning engineering education as mentioned by Sumera Rizwan in her article "Modern Pedagogies in Engineering Education" (2021) in this link which are Cognitive, Behavioral and Emotional engagement. Other elements that have to be considered is student psychological and emotional during learning. Therefore, my teaching strategies for current situation involve cognitive engagement and behavioral engagement as well as student psychological validation.