Factors affecting effective teaching learning situation

A. Learner’s factor

• Physiological or biological factors: It includes maturity, needs, physical health, mental health, self-concept, proper nutrition, proper sleep, tiredness, etc.
• Motivational factors: Motivation is the internal process that activates and maintains one’s behaviour over time or influences the desire. It may be intrinsic or extrinsic.
• Intellectual factor: It is the individual’s mental level, one’s ability to understand and solve problems. Each individual possesses different kind of intelligence, and that plays important role in learning or unable to learn.
• Learning factors: Individual’s methods of work or study, exposure to experiments, may affect the learning process.
• Attitude: It is the personal thinking and ideologies. It is reflected in the daily work and working habit of the learner. Attitude may be positive or negative. Positive attitude speeds up the learning process.
• Emotional and social factors: Instincts and emotions, and social factors, such as cooperation, rivalry affects learning.
• Orientation: It is an integrated set of attitudes, beliefs, cultural demand and practices as well as the alignment to oneself and to the circumstances. Learners are interested in the things they believe.
• Family background: A learner belonging to a literate family has different learning trend comparatively.
• Achievement: Learner who have achieved highly before are more likely to achieve high again.

B. Teacher’s factor

• Teacher’s personality: The way in which personality of the teacher interacts with the personalities of the learners affects the teaching-learning process. The value of a teacher is not in the regular performance of routine duties, but in his power to lead and to inspire his learners through the influence of his moral personality and example. Learners love a happy, sympathetic, enthusiastic, and cheerful teacher.
• Teaching strategy: Strategy differs according to the teachers. Some prefer to make summary; some highlight or underline important texts or read the same text several times. Assignments motivate and challenge the learner to work to achieve goals or rewards.
• Counselling and advising: When a learner get a positive counselling and advices, they feel motivated to learn and acquire more and more on the topic.
• Individual differences: Various learners have different level of capacities and capabilities. So, the teacher should be able to able to formulate different strategies, approaches for them while teaching.

C. Physical and environmental factors

• These include classroom, reading materials, equipment and other supplies affects teaching-learning situation; their type and quality.