The University of Basra holds a dialogue symposium on (the nature of teaching) to develop institutional performance
The College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Basra held a dialogue symposium between the Dean of the College and members of the teaching staff about what teaching is and how to improve it to achieve the goals of the educational institution.
The Dean of the College confirmed that the student’s brain is not a vessel that you must fill, but rather a flame that you must kindle, and that developing the cognitive aspect alone is not enough without the social aspect, and this requires a double effort from the members of the teaching staff, using all the modern teaching methods and in line with the educational position and leaving the binding aside to develop thought. The students and make them search for information on their own. The teacher must also be a guide, mentor, and father to the students, as well as for the female teachers, mentors, guides, and mothers to the students, emphasizing the difference in education according to the different eras. In the age of technology, we must change our methods of dealing with building the personality of our students. Our goals are great, and we are responsible for preparing the most important element in the educational process. He is the teacher, and our role is to produce an educated, conscious, integrated, self-confident personality whom we can trust to build society, emphasizing the importance of the sacred teaching profession as it is the profession of the prophets. The symposium included a presentation of the “Know Thyself” test, the aim of which is to know the individual differences between students and their patterns of thinking and to use a teaching method that is consistent with Types of students and their differences in order to deal with them, lead them, and direct them in light of this. I stressed that the moral and emotional aspects should be present in every cognitive lecture.
The symposium concluded by praising the important role played by faculty members in the College of Education for the Humanities with this huge number of students, wishing them success in achieving the goals of the College of Education for the Humanities in their cognitive and social aspects.
