Some Thoughts on Todays

EFLTeaching-Learning
Strategies

Rida Wahyuningrum
English Department
Adi Buana PGRI University, Surabaya

REMEMBER
THESE
EFL TEACHERS?

A CHANGE
IN
CURRICULUM

The theme of 2013 Curriculum is to make

Indonesian scholars productive, creative,
innovative, affective through the reinforcement
of integrated attitude, skill, and knowledge.

Teachers should have professional skill and

knowledge in implementing the curriculum in
terms of :

1.
2.
3.
4.

Effective and meaningful instruction

Well-organized instruction
Adequate teaching-learning strategies
Teaching-learning procedure : competence
and character building
5. Criteria of achievement

DESIGNING EFFECTIVE AND MEANINGFUL

TEACHING-LEARNING ACTIVITIES
What is meant by effective and
meaningful learning?
Please, check the following addresses
http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/brief/v5n3/sec3.htm
http://jennyreiling.efoliomn.com/philosophystatement
http://notesfromnina.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/3-coreconcepts-of-meaningful-learning/
http://notesfromnina.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/3-coreconcepts-of-meaningful-learning/

2013 Curriculum proposes an effective and

meaningful teaching-learning design as follows:

1. Warm Up (inquiry)
2. Exploration
3. Consolidation
4. Competence and character building
5. Evaluation

WARM UP (INQUIRY)

1. Starters at the level of students

schema
2. Encouragement with interesting,
stimulating, and useful teaching
material
3. Stimulating activities for learning
new things

EXPLORATION
1. Introducing competencies to
achieve
2. Engaging the new material with
that of students prior knowledge
3. Selecting appropiate methods in
various ways to enhance the
students understanding towards
the new material

CONSOLIDATION

1. Involve students actively in

understanding and interpreting the
material
2. Involve students actively in the
process of problem solving

COMPETENCE AND CHARACTER BUILDING

1. Motivating students to apply
concepts, competencies, and
character learned in the classroom
into their daily lives.
2. Practising concepts, cometencies,
and character directly through
teaching material and activities so
that students are triggered to apply
them in their daily lives.

EVALUATION
1. Develop appropriate and accurate
assessment.
2. Use the result of assessment to have
reflection on taching-learning
process (teachers and students
weaknesses, problems in both
competence and character building.

Innovative Methods of Teaching

I hear and I forget.

I see and I believe.
I do and I understand.
- Confucius
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.Winston Churchill

MULTIMEDIA LEARNING PROCESS

Text
Images

Audio
Video
Animation

MIND MAP
Innovative way Mind Map.
Developed by Tony Buzan 1960.
Making notes with keywords and images.
visual and sensory tools at our disposal.
Recollect information for long time.

AN EXAMPLE OF MIND MAP FOR

SCALAR QUANTITIES

TEACHING WITH SENSE OF HUMOUR

Laughter is a natural, universal phenomenon, with
beneficial effects, both physical and psychological.
Everyone loves a teacher with an infectious
sense of humor.
Cordial relationship.
Ability to relax people and reduce tension.
Advertising strategy.
Cartoon
When there is a willingness to change, there is hope for
progress in any field.
Students enjoys humor in forms of funny anecdotes

MNEMMONICS - WORDS- WORDS WORDS

APPROACH
Concept approach.
Associated meaning.
Increase word power
Dictionary.

ROLE PLAYING AND SCENARIO ANALYSIS BASED

TEACHING
Role playing
Practical approach
Theory supplemented by practical.

INNOVATIONS
Internet ready phones
Handheld computers
Digital cameras
Mp3 players
Laptops
E-learning

OUR GOAL: Clarity is the key

Courses

Industry requirments
Specialization
Medium

Students needs

Evaluation
&Assessment
+ On-the-Job Training

INNOVATIVE METHODS

TEACHER THE GREATEST INNOVATOR

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone
who keeps learning stays young.
To teach is to learn twice
Teachers should guide without dictating, and participate without
dominating
The critical factor is not class size but rather the nature of the teaching as it
affects learning.

LEARNING NEVER ENDS

Rida Wahyuningrum
English Department
Adi Buana PGRI University, Surabaya