The document discusses the elements of teaching and learning. It states that teaching involves stimulating, directing, and guiding learners to evaluate learning outcomes, while learning refers to changes in behavior caused by experience or self-activity. The key participants in the teaching-learning process are the teacher, learner, and learning environment. It then focuses on the learner, describing them as an "embodied spirit" consisting of both a body and soul. The learner has physical senses and mental abilities like perceiving, imagining, reasoning, feeling, and choosing. As teachers, it's important to care for the learner's physical and spiritual needs by providing knowledge, exercise, food, and spiritual thoughts to feed both their body and soul.

2. CHAPTER 1
THE LEARNER
UNIT 1 :
THE ELEMENTS OF
TEACHING AND LEARNING

3. Introduction
Let us first understand:
Teaching – is perceived as stimulating, directing,
guiding the learner and evaluating the learning
outcome of teaching.
Learning – changes in individual’s behavior caused
by experience or self activity.
Teaching-learning process- the heart of
education. It is the most powerful instrument of
education to bring the desires changes in the
students.

4. mover
Key participant
provide
ELEMENTS
OF TEACHING
AND
LEARNING
TEACHER
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT LEARNER

5. WHAT ROLE DOES EACH PLAY IN
THE TEACHING-LEARNING
PROCESS?

6. The Learner
“every child is a potential
genius”
Chapter 1

7. The learner as an embodied spirit
The learner is an embodied spirit. He is neither body
nor spirit alone. Body and Soul exists in mutual
dependence. (Kelly,1965)
The learner has the power to see, hear touch, smell,
and taste, perceived, imagine, retain, recall,
recognize past mental acts, conceive ideas, make
judgment , reason out, feel and choose.

8. A union of a
sentient body and
a rational soul

9. As Teachers
Let us care for the
embodied spirit-
learner.
Let us feed his/her
body as well as

10. BODY
The brain to be filled
with knowledge.
Physical needs such
as;
 Exercise or short
games before
starting the class
lessons
 Eat
 Snack time/ recess
time
 FEEDING
PROGRAMS
HEALTH MATTERS
checking the health
conditions of the
learners
Sensations
Feels
pleasure and
pain

11. SPRITUAL/SOUL
Matthew 4:4
“Man does
not live by
bread alone
but every
word that
comes from
the mouth of
God”
Needs to be fed by
sublime thoughts,
Principle of
spiritual acts
Source of
intellectual
abstraction,
self-reflection &
free rational
volition