Exploiting Influential Factors in Teaching Oriented Towards the Development of Learners’ Capacity

Abstract

The article focuses on teaching in the direction of developing learners’ competencies through the influence of four factors, namely knowledge, skills, attitudes, and situations. Previous studies have shown that properly exploiting these four factors will contribute to effectively reaching the teaching goals, that is, creating the best capacity for learners. Therefore, this study has selected an approach to the problem of improving teaching quality in the direction of developing learners’ capacity. This involved putting the elements of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and teaching situations in the same interactive relationship and to find ways to exploit them most effectively. Using this approach, educational managers should influence the construction of curriculum content (knowledge), create appropriate teaching conditions and environments (situations), establish a mechanism for academic freedom, and relate schooling to life to train learners in skills and attitudes. Teachers can exploit all four factors in the teaching process to improve teaching quality. Using such an approach, a questionnaire was designed to carry out an educational survey with 394 respondents (including 112 graduate students of educational management and 282 pedagogical students living and studying in 41/63 provinces of Vietnam). The survey results affirmed a number of observations and assessments about the current situation of teaching in the direction of developing the learners’ capacity in Vietnam. Solutions to improve the effectiveness of these activities are proposed.