Article Summary
In the 2021 article “The cognitive challenges of effective teaching,” Chew and Cerbin outline the nine major cognitive challenges of effective teaching and provide potential recommendations that can be implemented to address each. From the study, it is evident that teachers play a crucial role in facilitating better education and need to identify better strategies to help students learn and impact their teaching capabilities.
Cognitive Challenges of Effective Educating
Chew and Cerbin state students and their mental mindset as the first setback under which they believe a particular course is irrelevant, thus developing a negative attitude. As a remedy, educators need to explain the importance of the class to the learners. Metacognition and self-regulation are other challenges in which students judge their level of understanding, leading to the regulation of their learning habits. Teachers need to ask questions and provide assignments to help adjust their schooling. Student fear and mistrust are also identified in which they develop negative emotions and reactions toward the course making education difficult. Educators need to provide reassurance and improve trust with the learners.
The lack of sufficient prior knowledge is also a challenge identified as the level of understanding is different. Online questions and regular tasks were highly recommended to promote teaching. It was also identified that learners hold mistaken beliefs that may impact their ability to grasp the truth. The potential remedy includes providing diagnostic tests and identifying the nature of the learners’ misjudgment. Ineffective education strategies lead to poor results among schoolers, and the recommended remedy is using a constructive approach. Other issues identified by Chew and Cerbin are the transfer of learning, constraints of selective attention, and mental effort, which affect teaching. The main suggestion for preventing these setbacks was the teachers’ adoption of better education approaches.
Personal Reaction
The article is helpful in the education field as it highlights the possible setbacks affecting teaching and learning and provides possible solutions for each issue likely to be faced. It is good as it further provides educators with the necessary knowledge to use while eradicating the potential challenges likely to be faced in teaching and learning. The framework provided is crucial and can be used by future and current teachers to promote effective education.
Reference
Chew, S. L., & Cerbin, W. J. (2020). The cognitive challenges of effective teaching. The Journal of Economic Education, 52(1), 17–34. Web.