The Essence of Higher Education Instruction
Keywords:
Emotional intelligence, higher education, objectives, teaching, reflective thinkingAbstract
To respond to the dynamic global changes, the Algerian Higher Education has constantly brought reforms aiming at enhancing the learning outcomes and more importantly to define the optimal objectives necessary for students to enter the professional world. Yet, the main concern is to raise an awareness of what an effective instruction implies. In this respect, the present paper aims to explore the main components of an effective training which should meet the cognitive and emotional developments of university students. Indeed, as future novice teachers, they need skills to deal with the new situations they may face as the classroom involves a variety of individual differences in terms of personality traits and peculiar learners’ cognitive and affective parameters.
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