Transforming the Reluctance to

Enthusiastic
Eight decades of social work education
in India: Gaining momentum but
Struggling for Professional Status
Ethical guidelines for
practice evaluation.

Bridging
Acaemic & Practice
Desperate need for NCSW
 Indegeneous Approaches

SWRP in India has neglected the societal

reform approach

Rural reconstruction experiment models

Culturally specific EBA –models

Rational &Relational Models

The Seven Laws of Teaching
Research to SWS
The Progressions from B to A
• Teaching is causing.
• Causing people to learn.
• Learning is change.
• Learning means a change in your thinking,
• a change in your feeling, and a change in your
behavior.
• Your goal as a teacher is to develop lifelong learners.
Inspire the students to have a passion for learning,
growing and transforming the person -Enthusiastic
1. Law of the Teacher

If you stop growing today,

you stop teaching tomorrow
 The Law of the Teacher

Ideas for developing a passion for learning,

growing, transforming:

Maintain a consistent reading program

Examine your teaching. “The

unexamined life is not worth living.”

What are some ways we can

evaluate our impact and effectiveness
from the viewpoint of our students ?S
 The Law of the Teacher –
How?
• “… effective teaching comes only through a changed person. The
more you change, the more you become an instrument of change in
the lives of others. If you want to become a change agent, you also
must change.”
• The two factors that will influence you the most in the years ahead
are the books you read and the people you’re around.
• “Experience does not necessarily make you better; in fact it tends to
make you worse, unless it’s evaluated experience. The good
teacher’s greatest threat is satisfaction – the failure to keep asking,
‘How can I improve?”
• A good teacher learns “where” a student is, knows where they need
to go and becomes intent on getting them there quickly and joyfully
– but, a teacher only knows the way if they have been there before.
2. Law of the
(Learner)Education

The way people learn determines how

you teach.
The Law of the Learner
• The ship needs a captain and you cannot get
underway until all hands are on deck – so, do
not begin a class until all eyes are on you, all
ears open and all mouths muted.
• Silence can be a great silencer!
• Pause if needed to re-gather the troops.
• Never try to teach on credit – only spend the
attention that they have!
• Appeal to their sense of wonder and
amazement to keep their attention. Remember,
they are still young enough to be amazed by
new and amazing things.
The Law of the Learner: Encouragement
• Teaching tends to be most effective
when the learner is properly motivated.
▫ Extrinsic motivation : motivation from without.
▫ Intrinsic motivation : motivation from within.
• Developing a strong sense of felt need:
people will not learn what they have no
felt need for, and will invest themselves
in learning that for which they do have
a felt need.
 Motivation
• Your task with all extrinsic motivation is to
trigger intrinsic motivation. Internal motivation
leads to maturity (self starter).
• You motivate people by correctly structuring
their training experience. Training involves 4
major stages:

Telling stage (we are usually strongest here)

Showing stage—providing a model
Controlled environment doing—role playing
Uncontrolled environment doing—real life action
The Law of the Learner: Encouragement

• The key question is: Are you

motivated? – Motivated people become
change agent.
• If one-tenth of what you believe is true,
you ought to be ten times as excited as
you are.
3. Law of the Communication
The language used as a medium between the teacher and
the learner must be common to both.

To truly impart information requires the building of

bridges.
The Law of the Communication
• Communication is the reason for our
existence as teachers. – It’s also our
number one teaching problem.
• To truly impart information requires the
building of bridges. This means really
knowing one’s students, which in itself
means spending time with them outside
the classroom. Communication will be
more effective to the degree that it is
something the teacher deeply knows,
feels and does.
 The Law of the Communication –
Intellect, Emotion, and Volition
• All communication has three essential
components: intellect, emotion, and
volition – thought, feeling, and action.
• Whatever it is I want to communicate to
another individual, it involves

▫ … something I know,
▫ … something I feel,
▫ … and something I’m doing.
4. Law of the Activity
The lesson to be mastered must be explicable in terms of
truth already known by the learner- the unknown must be
explained by means of the known.

Maximum learning Maximum-involvement.

The Law of Activity
• Maximum learning is always the result of
maximum involvement. Students will
learn best as they are most active in the
process. They need to be guided in their
practice, taught to properly evaluate their
experience, and learn not by repeating
their mistakes but by doing the right
things.
• Hearing is the most inefficient means of
learning – people only retain at the most
10% of what they hear. But they will retain
up to 50% of what they see and up to 90%
of what they do.
 The Law of Activity–
Quality Activity
• Purposeful activity implies quality activity.
▫ Practice makes better.
▫ Experience is the best teacher.
▫ We learn by doing.
▫ ………
- Well-guided practice makes better
- Properly evaluated experience is the best teacher
- We learn by doing the right things

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5. Law of the Heart
Teaching is using the pupil’s mind
to grasp the desired thought or to
master the desired art.
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Teaching Process
• How people learn determines how you
teach – stimulating and directing the
learner’s self-activities.
• The teacher must excite and direct the
learner’s self-activities, tell the learner
nothing – and do nothing for him – that
he can learn or do for himself.
• What’s important is not what you do as a
teacher, but what the learners do as a
result of what you do.
The Enthusiastic Teaching Process –
Think, Learn & Work
• Basic goals:
▫ Teach people how to think – If you want to
change a person permanently, make sure
his thinking changes, and not merely his
behavior.
▫ Teach people how to learn – Create
learners who will perpetuate the learning
process for the rest of their lives.
▫ Teach people how to work – never doing
anything for a student that he is capable of
doing for himself.

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6. Law of the Heart
Learning is thinking into one’s
own understanding a new idea or
truth.
The Law of the Learning Process
• This is when your lesson becomes their
truth
• Teaching exists to change lives
• Remember “Everyone who is fully trained
will be like his teacher.”
• This is when the student can become a
teacher for themselves and for others
Where Learning Happens
• Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but
heart to heart.
• Plato’s triumvirate of ethos
(character/credibility), pathos (compassion) and
logos (content). Ethos, pathos and logos are like
a pyramid where each is dependent upon the
previous. – Character, Compassion, Content.
• Without the foundation of character/credibility,
there will not be the confidence in the teacher
which is foundational to the implicit contract
between teacher and student.
• The student needs to know that the teacher cares
about him, and third of course, is content.
7. Law of Review and
Application
The test of teaching done must be a reviewing,
rethinking, reknowing, reproducing and applying of
the material that has been taught.
The Law of Readiness
• The teaching-learning process will be
most effective when both student and
teacher are adequately prepared.
▫ Example :Assignments/Reports
 They precipitate thinking – assignments
are mental warm-up.
 They provide a background, a foundation
on which to build.
 They develop habits of independent study –
and this is the most important benefit
Good Assignments/ Reports

• The characteristics of good assignments:

▫ They must be creative, not simply busy
work. Need a clear objective ; designed with
a purpose.
▫ They must be thought-provoking. They
should question more answers rather than
answer more questions. Stretch the
learners’ minds.
▫ Assignments must be doable.
Thank you