International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 3

Breaking learner's isolation and teacher's insulations: a strategy for efficient and effective classroom

  • Author:
  • Vijay Kumar Grover
  • Total Page Count: 13
  • Page Number: 334 to 346

DAV College of Education, Abohar, Punjab, India

Online published on 21 April, 2016.

Abstract

This paper is about improving effectiveness of the classroom beyond the normal efforts of content, methods and methodology. It is about missing communication between teacher and learner/s. this break of communication is by virtue of two major factors- Learner's isolation and teacher's insulation. Here isolation of learner is taken other than resulted from any form of disability. Isolation if ignore till extreme can turn in to depression (self –destructive) or aggression (else-destructive). Author discusses three layers of communication in the class on the Pask's theory of conversation- general language, subject language and Metalanguage. It is the first layer where isolation starts. Author suggests three sets of measures namely- Justice Delivery, Social Network and Compensation to break isolation of learner in the class. Then author focuses on teacher's own insulations in the classroom. These can be deliberate as unconscious. Insulations decreases popularity of the teacher and sense of belongingness to the class. Author suggests three sets of measures- Cognitive, Affective and Conative for breaking insulations of the teacher. In the end two factors are combined to interact resulting in four possible classrooms named as- Worst Classroom, Diplomatic Classroom, and Ordinary Classroom and Best Classroom. The Best Classroom is a classroom where learners have no isolations and teacher has no insulations. This is the both efficient and effective classroom.

Keywords

Learner's Isolation, Teacher's Insulation, Effective classroom, Efficient classroom, Best classroom