My Teaching Statement

I have tried to visualize my teaching statement in the form of a concept map. Your comments are highly appreciated.

Malik's Memorable Learning Experience

Meaningful learning demands much more efforts, time and brainstorming on the teaching as well as learning ends and it is the fundamental building block of the knowledge base of the learner. On the contrary, rote learning fails to contribute in construction of the knowledge base in the learner's mind.

The experience which I am going to share here is my learning experience of an undergraduate level course called "Analysis of Algorithms" at LUMS, Pakistan. Algorithm means the solution of a given computational problem. The instructor didn't teach "algorithms" in the classroom, rather he used to act as a facilitator to discover the "algorithms". He used to push the students to think at run time about the given scenario and establish wonderful algorithms (efficient solution ideas) with his facilitation. The algorithms which the students used to discover themselves (may be with some errors) lay down the n lasting foundation of the knowledge base as compared to those which were taught as the "ready made" algorithms. This discovery-based learning supports construction of strong concept map in the learner's mind.

This experience was really different than the conventional classroom environment. Such kind of teaching is really hard and demands lot of time and efforts to prepare, but I am personally very much convinced of the effectiveness of this methodology.