2. • 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 ( NarrowMeaning)
Teache
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Studen
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Student
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Curriculum/
Society
• Teaching is a tripolar process ( Broad Meaning)
Teacher
3. • 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.
4. 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.,
5. 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
6. 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
8. DIAGNOS
TIC
•Entering behavior of the student
•Initial potential of the student
•Educational Objectives
•Content, instructional material &environment
•His own potentials and capabilities
9. PRESCRIP
TIVE
•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.
10. EVALUATI
VE
•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.
11. 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.
