Buddhist teaching methods and the development of learning skills in learners of different generations

Abstract

From the policy of expanding educational opportunities to promote and support people of all genders, ages, religions, and languages ​​to access education to reduce educational inequality, combined with expectations from the results of education management according to the specified standards, under the competitive situation of educational institutions and the rate of decline of students and the country's population, some educational institutions and classrooms have diverse groups of students. Teachers therefore play an important role in developing students from the time they enter school until they graduate in order to create changes in knowledge, skills, ethics, and personal characteristics by designing teaching and learning activities to achieve the objectives and learning outcomes of subjects and curricula as specified. In this article, the author therefore applies the teaching methods of the Lord Buddha that he used in teaching the four diverse Buddhist groups until they were able to achieve the Dhamma, which is the learning outcome at different levels, by considering the differences in characteristics of students by dividing them into groups, teaching appropriately, and adjusting the teaching methods according to their knowledge and abilities, combining both theory and practice to create roles and participation processes between groups of students and teachers without bias, designing and developing teaching content from student assessment to find a balance at the beginning of teaching, under a warm atmosphere of respect and honor between groups of students and teachers, focusing on the content of what is taught as important. In this article, teachers must have morality, ethics, and professional ethics according to the characteristics of being a teacher.