By Rolf Arnold

CONTENTS

Author's Introduction:
Teaching and Learning: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Rules for Smart Teaching

Rule 1: Examine your own learning theory!
I learned it somewhere else.
"We are all capable, but are often just out of practice."
Rule 2: Support the competence competence of the learner!
Rule 3: Strengthen the learner's self-learner skills!
If you see that something is not working, let it be!
What to do?
Rule 4: Base the learning content on the learner's experience!
Rule 5: Focus your teaching on developing talent!
Reinvent the learner!
How to avoid learning goals, yet still be effective
Rule 6: Exercise situational and reflective educational activities!
Preparation of the second order
Rule 7: Relate your teaching activity to skill profiles!
"Portfolio, therefore I am?"
Rule 8: Try to create individual learning scenarios!
Rule 9: Promote self-paced eLearning by your students!
Rule 10: Practice triumvirate rule as you select, prepare, and deliver!
Rule 11: Stage the learning process to be an effective experience!
Rule 12: Follow the criteria for vibrant and long lasting learning!
Rule 13: Learn how to "teach in stereo!"
Rule 14:Train your sense of appreciation!
Rule 15: Provide the framework and building materials for the learners' learning projects!
Rule 16: Apply the concept of learning by doing!
Rule 17:Be devoted to your own personality development!
Teachers as mentors
A cure for educational narcissism
Rule 18:Surprise the students by using imaginative methods!
On the gradual disappearance of mediated learning
Rule 19:Expand your repertoire of methods!
Rule 20:Review your own teaching style!
Rule 21:Develop a preference for "open media" developed with the students!
Media should become a form of student expression!
Rule 22:Free yourself from hasty typifications!
The differences in learning behaviors have been widely studied.
Avoid learning types: "All inclusive" didactics!
Rule 23:Practice dealing with classroom interruptions/distractions!
Rule 24:Let outcomes guide your teaching activities!
Rule 25:Follow the didactic debate!
Didactic professionalism
Didactics - the science of professional teaching
Rule 26:Develop and use various forms of professional testing!
Rule 27: Increase the feedback opportunities available to your users!
Rule 28:Participate in the organizational and team development!
Rule 29:Plan your own professional competency development!

Afterword: Thoughts on the patent fears of teachers and educational theorists