Teaching Strategies

According to The World Book Encyclopaedia (1988) teaching is a process by which a person helps other people to learn. Teaching strategies are tools that teachers and professors use to partake knowledge about the subject matter to the students efficiently. If one is to wonder, he/she will notice that different forms of teaching were being done by the professors, and that teaching method is also a factor and it also affects his/her progress in the education program. As decades pass, some teaching strategies have been evolved, and sometimes even newer strategies were discovered and performed, and technology has also taken part in this innovation. Every student has his/her own ‘typical’ teaching method that is most effective to be used to them in their process in learning, which means different students have different preferences depending on their capabilities, and on which particular method is proven to be effective to them. A movie entitled ‘Forrest Gump’ once quoted: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Of course, not every single strategy is perfect and each has its own flaw, and that makes it necessary to conduct a research to gather information about how those teaching methods work, as well as its effect to the students. In The World Book Encyclopaedia (1988), Abraham cited something about the teacher’s duties: A teacher’s job consists of four main duties: (1) Teachers must prepare for their classes. (2) They must guide, or assist the learning of students. (3) They must check student progress. (4) Teachers must set a good example for their students. In carrying out these duties, teachers try to identify and respond to the needs of individual students.
Mathematics is one of the subjects that some of the students have difficulty dealing with. Some students may find in fairly easy to understand and solve arithmetic problems, while some were perplexed at the mere sight of complicated numerical problems, and then they find