what is teaching

CONCEPT OF TEACHING

Dr. Archana Chaudhari

Meaning• Teaching derived from : to teach which means to instruct

• Process in which one individual makes something known to another

individual

• Teaching is a bipolar process- John Adam ( Narrow Meaning)

• Teaching is a tripolar process ( Broad Meaning)

Teacher Student

Students Curriculum/ Society

Teacher

• Teaching is an important part of the process of Education

• Its special function is to impart knowledge, develop understanding

and skill

• Teaching is communication between two or more persons, who

influence each other by ideas and learn something in the process of

interaction

• Teaching is a process in which learner, teacher curriculum and other

variables are organized in a systematic way to attain some pre

determined goals.

• Teaching includes all the activities of providing education to other.

CONCEPT

Through teaching, the teacher aims at

Giving some knowledge to the students;

Passing some information to them;

Making the students acquire some skill;

Changing the attitude of the learners;

Modifying the behavior of the students;

Giving some experiences of life; etc.,

H.C. Morrison (1934): “teaching is an intimate contact between a

more mature personality and less mature one which is designed to

further the education of the latter.”

N. L, Gage(1962): “Teaching is a form of interpersonal influence

aimed at changing the behavior potential of another person”

B.D. Smith (1961): “Teaching is a system of actions intended to

induce learning.”

Albert Einstein : The supreme art of teaching is to awaken joy in

creative expression and knowledge

DEFINITIONS

CHARACTERISTICS

Teaching is an interactive process

Teaching is both formal and informal

Teaching is art, craft as well science

Teaching is not one sided

Teaching is not an independent activity

Teaching is a planned activity

Teaching is diagnostic and remedial

Teaching is dominated by communication skills

Good teaching is democratic

Teaching causes motivation

Teaching is professional in character

FUNCTIONS OF TEACHING

DIAGNOSTIC

PRESCRIPTIVE

EVALUATIVE

DIAGNOSTIC

•Entering behavior of the student

•Initial potential of the student

•Educational Objectives

•Content, instructional material &environment

•His own potentials and capabilities

PRESCRIPTIVE

•Selecting appropriate contents and organizing them

into proper sequence.

•Selecting proper teaching techniques, strategies

and feedback devices

in view of the individual difference among the students.

•Seeking essential cooperation from the students for

a purposeful interaction.

EVALUATIVE

•Realization of the stipulated objectives.

•Various evaluation devices in the form of tests, observations,

interviews, rating scales, inventories and unstructured projective

techniques are help in exercising evaluative functions.

•Failure in the realization of the objectives is essentially a failure

in the prescriptive or diagnostic functions.

•Students are more active.

The other general functions of teaching are:

• Creating learning situations.• Motivating the child to learn.• Diagnosing learning problems.• Making curricular material.• Explain and inform.• Initiation, Direction and Administration.

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