Five Steps of Ignatian Paradigm in Teaching and Learning

As a lecturer, I found a lot of problems in teaching and learning process. Not all of students have high motivation in learning, especially in the class. Only about 30% students can reach the aim of the subject. The other 70% do not have efforts to get the subject's aim. I try to observe why they aren't have interest to the subject. I teach a subject that have lack of theory, and students being bored with that. It's a big problem for me as a teacher.
I found a book from Jesuit community about how they design the teaching and learning method in the class. This method is called Ignatian Pedagogy. There are five important steps in this paradigm:

1.Context of learning.
Fundamental theory and the aim of the subject must be introduced to students in the beginning of the class. Knowing the aim and fundamental theory, students are motivated about the importance this subject to their future. I try to design the simplest fundamental theory so it can be understand by students easily.

2.Experience
After they got the fundamental theory and know the aim of the subject. I design a case study and give them task to observe this case study. I try to design a case study that present in their daily live and easy to understand. As an example in database design subject, I ask the students to analyze the requirement of a local company in order to build an information system for that company. Students choose the company by them self and observe by their own method.

3.Reflection
In this steps, students try to give feedback to their own analysis by discussing it. After that, they must design the system based on their analysis in formal method given at the context of learning step.

4.Action
The students try to implement to code based on the design they made before. In this action, the students have a new problem on how to implement the design into code. They try to solve this problem by learning the programming language that they need by them self. Of course we must help them by giving the resource that they need and supervise them.

5.Evaluation
This is an important step for the students to evaluate their task. The students perform their task in a presentation and the other students and me give feedback to what they have did. Students so happy when they finish their task and evaluated by other students and the lecturer.

By doing something, they learn by them self about the subject. As lecturer, I just want to be a facilitator for them. And by doing something, students will have an experience that will stay longer in their mind compared with only listening in the class or reading a textbook. I'm happy with the result, because more then 50% of students that passed this subject with good mark. I ask students to evaluate this method and almost all of them said that this method is easier to understand. I try to implement this pedagogy in all of my subject such as Computer Organization, Database Programming, Relational Database Management System, Database Administration, Embedded System, etc. Hem, anyone to share with me about teaching and learning method......