MODERN teaching philosophy emphasizes learning by doing, requiring students to actively engage in tasks to acquire knowledge and skills. The teacher’s role has shifted from simply transmitting knowledge to facilitating learning.

In this approach, teachers should not take on students’ responsibilities, making it crucial to establish clear boundaries between their roles in the learning process.

Contemporary teaching methods encourage learners to actively participate in developing knowledge, which the teacher then validates. Defining these roles ensures an effective learning environment. Without clear boundaries, teachers risk taking over students’ responsibilities, depriving them of the opportunity to learn through practice.

Teachers must analyze the syllabus to determine which concepts require direct instruction, which need guidance, and which learners can explore independently. 

Some topics are complex and require teacher explanation, while others can be understood through reading. Some concepts may need initial reading, followed by teacher elaboration for clarity. Structuring lessons with this in mind enhances teaching efficiency.

There are concepts which learners can understand to a certain extent but they need teacher’s elaboration to be sure. With this kind of understanding, teachers need to come up with a teaching methodology that ensures efficiency.

Teachers can assign learners to read certain topics and bring their findings to the class for more discussions and clarifications. This helps in testing learners understanding especially through the question and answer approach.

Teachers can demand learners to discuss in groups what they have learnt in books before they present in class. Through presentations learners get an opportunity to explain what they have read and discussed. By so doing, they develop mastery of the content.

Leaners who prefer reading make lessons more attractive due to a high level of participation. It is the role of the teacher to encourage learners to read as they build language competence and knowledge which enables interactions in class. 

Teachers need to direct learners to read so that they develop curiosity because readership is manifested in answering of examinations whereas good readers find it easy to elaborate some points while those who do not read satisfactorily struggle to produce explanations. 

Ability to read and explain manifests competence among learners hence teachers need to emphasize reading and explaining as the base of teaching and learning process due to the following advantages.

Dividing the teaching and learning process among teachers and learners enables teachers to avoid wasting energy through explaining things which learners can read and understand on their own. Class time is always short, hence the need to make sure that the time is well managed by enabling each party to do their duties.

When the teacher explains what learners can understand on their own, it may result in learners losing interest in the lesson. Normally, the human mind prefers to get new things to remain motivated. Teachers need to be good time managers by avoiding unnecessary elaborations.

Making learners more engaged into the lesson. When learners are given some tasks to do they are made to be more responsible and fully engaged into a lesson. For learners to participate effectively in lessons they need to be given tasks which will make them work hard to generate or search for new knowledge. 

As the new teaching approaches emphasize learner-centred type of learning, it is more important for teachers to avoid expressing things which learners should explain.

Developing a reading culture; reading is among the prerequisite for lifelong learning. Books contain a lot of new knowledge which can be acquired through reading. This reality makes it necessary for learners to develop a habit of reading to suffice demands of the current teaching philosophy.

Timely completion of syllabus; when the teaching and learning process is divided among teachers and learners rightly, the possibility to cover syllabuses on time increases making results more feasible. 

When syllabuses are completed on time, learners get enough time for revisions which is the mother of study. It is through revision that both teachers and leaners can fill gaps which might exist during the teaching and learning process.

Each party in the teaching and learning process needs to show cooperation so that success can be registered. This is due to the fact that competence among learners is developed easily when learners fully participate in the teaching and learning process where they get practical skills. 

When learners know their duties, they are likely to put much effort which will result into more efficiency in the teaching and learning process. Engaging learners into the teaching and learning process enables them to develop a sense of responsibility leading to provision of quality education. Reading and explanations cannot be ignored in the effective teaching and learning process.