INNOVATIVE WORK

 

INNOVATIVE WORK

REPORT

 

1.     INTRODUCTION

An innovative work can be defined as a “new idea, device, or method”. It is something original and more effective and as a consequence, new that “breaks into” the pupil. Two interesting dimensions of innovation including: degree of novelty and type of innovation. Innovative work should be a catalyst to growth. Innovation may be linked to positive changes in efficiency, productivity, quality, competitiveness and intellectual development. Through innovative work the teacher can improve students’ performance by providing group work opportunities and resources to innovate. It is necessary to create and nurture an environment of innovation.

Teaching and learning process is one of the most important educational processes which comprehensively cares from achieving educational objectives all the way up to assessment. Due to the fact that it is a highly complicated process in terms of both nature and procedures, it is often observed that each student has a unique learning style that is formed by having a specific learning pattern used for gaining knowledge from the educational experiences presented to them. Such favored learning patterns ought to be highly considered by students, teachers, as well parents as they are crucial for making the best use of them to improve means of instructions in addition to knowledge acquisition by the students. Recognizing effective learning patterns makes the learning process more effective, economical, efficient, easier, and continuous (Gaines, 2012). A teacher can thus utilize such patterns to offer educational experiences using appropriate methods which are favored by students.

 ‘‘A picture is worth a thousand words,’’ but only if one can comprehend it. Otherwise, it is just a page decoration at best and a waste of space at worst. Considering how many graphics are found in textbooks and other non-fiction texts for children and adults and the amount of information they contain, it is important to understand what readers are doing when they see these graphics, how they are processing them, how they are understanding them, and whether these graphics are contributing to their overall comprehension of the text. This study begins to address some of these questions by investigating: What is the relationship, if any, between children’s processes prompted by the graphics in informational text and their overall comprehension of those texts?

 

2. Purpose of the Work

 

            As a part of Teaching Practice Session 2, I opted an Innovative Work based on the Chapter “Rosa Parks Sat Still”. Based on this Chapter I prepared an Infographics to make the students familiarise the storyline of the chapter. As part of the Innovative work preparation I also developed the skill of using different online educational tools to make classes more interactive and engaging. The use of infographics in educational process will reduce language barriers when teaching in an educational institution since infographics improve the perception of educational content regardless of the language environment of students. The use of innovative technology-enhanced media as a pedagogical tool has been the subject of great interest in education and has remained a prevalent approach in the last few years (Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2012; Ferreira, Baptista & Arroio, 2013; Potter & Banaji, 2012). It is important for educators to understand how students process the information contained in infographics since infographics can provide a way to reach students with varied learning styles, particularly visual learners (Lankow et al., 2012; Smiciklas, 2012). Furthermore, Davis and Quinn (2013) suggest that effective and well-prepared infographics can work as useful learning materials to support the development of students. Similarly, Lazard and Atkinson (2015) state that infographics consisting of text and visuals have a positive effect on the growth of the readers.

 

 

  

 

 

Conclusion

Since the world has recently become more accumulative in the sense of information, we feel

bored while receiving and dealing with such a huge amount of data. Hence, the need for such

infographic designs emerged as they have a vital role in simplifying such information and making such data processing much easier and faster. As for teaching the fundamentals of English language for the student who do not have a English speaking environment enables the student to learn better, I believe that teaching the visual approach first makes reading much faster. It fosters information in the students’ minds and enables them to read it easily and analyzing data smoothly in an attractive way.