Finance Smart Teaching Method (FSTM) / Hasni Abdullah … [et al.]

Effective design of curriculum and course content specifically pedagogical techniques to produce quality teaching and learning has been greatly emphasized by the Ministry of Education for years. Undeniably, one of the key elements that is necessary for the educators in practicing quality teaching is directly related to the quality of learning process. Hence, one of the best strategies to promote conducive and engaging learning atmosphere is to create an innovative learning tool. In order to meet the objective, Finance Smart Teaching Method is designed to simplify the learning process particularly for banking students taking the course of finance. FSTM will grant the users quick reference for any relevant terms and points that are extremely useful for each chapter without having to refer to the whole chapter. On that note, FSTM summarizes the gist of each chapter without great effort and trouble-free to refer to by the users. Thus, the preliminary investigation was conducted to study the effects of using FSTM using an online questionnaire. This is done in order to know how efficient this innovative teaching approach could be. Based on the results, it can be seen that students managed to understand the concept very well with the FSTM. The result shows how creativity and innovation teaching approach contribute to the effective of teaching and learning process.