TNTEU Syllabus - Core 3 - I Year B.Ed Students - Unit II Meaning and Definition

1. I Year B.Ed - CORE 3
LEARNING AND TEACHING
Ms R SRIDEVI
Assistant Professor, Pedagogy of Mathematics,
Loyola College of Education
Chennai 34
UNIT II
NATURE OF TEACHING
MEANING AND DEFINITION OF
TEACHING

2. The questions and allotment of marks
are as described below:
• Type of course : Full course
• Type of Questions : Essay type
• Questions : 10
• To answer : 7
• Marks : Each carries 10 marks
• Total marks : 70 ( 7 x 10 )
• Maximum word : 600 words / 5 sides
for each question
• Time : 3 hrs

3. Unit II
NATURE OF TEACHING
• Teaching: meaning and definition
• Characteristics of Good Teaching
• Views of great thinkers and
philosophers on teaching
• Becoming a reflective teacher and
his characteristics
• My goals as a teacher

5. MEANING …
• Teaching is a process in which
one individual teaches or
instruct another individual.
• Teaching is considered as the act
of imparting instructions to the
learners in the classroom
situation.

6. MEANING …
• Teaching includes all the activities
of providing education to other.
• The person who provides
education is called teacher.
• He tries his best to make
understand students.
• His duty is to encourage students
to learn the subjects.

7. MEANING …
• The teaching is a bipolar process
– John Adam (Narrow Meaning)

8. MEANING …
• The teaching is a Tripolar process
(Broad Meaning)
Curriculum / Society

9. MEANING
• Teaching is an important part of the process
of Education. Its special function is to impart
knowledge, develop understanding and skill.

10. MEANING
• Teaching is communication between two or
more persons, who influence each other by
ideas and learn something in the process of
interaction.

11. MEANING
• Teaching is a process in which learner, teacher
curriculum and other variables are organised
in a systematic way to attain some pre
determined goals
• Teaching includes all the activities providing
education to other.

12. 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 behaviour of the students;
• Giving some experiences of life;

13. DEFINITION ..…

14. Benjamin Franklin. . .
• Tell me …
I forget
• Teach me …
I remember
• Involve me …
I learn ...

15. DEFINITION…
According to Gage, "Teaching is a
form of interpersonal influence
aimed at changing the behaviour
potential of
another person."

16. DEFINITION…
Burton - “Teaching method is the
guidance, direction and
encouragement for learning”

17. DEFINITION…
Flander - “Teaching is an
interaction process. Interaction
means participation of both
teacher and student and both get
benefit by this. The interaction
takes place for achieving desired
objectives”

18. DEFINITION…
Edmund Amidon defined it as-" Teaching is an
interactive process, primarily involving class
room talk which takes place between teacher
and pupil and occurs during certain definable
activity."

19. DEFINITION…
Brubacher," Teaching is an arrangement and
manipulation of a situation in which an
individual will seek to overcome and from
which he will learn in the course of doing so."

20. DEFINITION…
Skinner- Teaching is the
arrangement of contingencies of
reinforcement.

21. DEFINITION…
Ryans- "Teaching is concerned with
the activities which are concerned
with the guidance or direction of
the learning of others."

22. DEFINITION…
Abbatt Mcmohan- “Teaching is
helping other people to learn.’’

23. DEFINITION…
H C Morrison:- Teaching is an
intimate contact between the
more mature personality and a less
mature one.

24. DEFINITION…
Jackson:- Teaching is a face to face
encounters between two or more persons,
one of whom (teacher) intends to effect
certain changes in the other participants
(students).

25. DEFINITION…
J B Hough and James K Duncan:-
Teaching is an activity with four phases, a
curriculum phase, planning phase, an
instructing phase, and an evaluating phase.

26. DEFINITION…
N.L.Gage ( Democratic point of view ):-
Teaching is interpersonal influence aimed
at changing the behavior potential of
another person.

27. DEFINITION…
Clerk:- Teaching refers to activities that
are designed and performed to
produce in students behavior.

28. THE TEACHER ..…
• The teacher uses different method
for giving best knowledge to his
students.

29. We can define teaching
according to the following
three viewpoints.
Authoritarian Democratic Laissez faire.

30. AUTHORITARIAN
• Teaching is an activity of memory
level only.
• This teaching does not develop
thoughts and attitude in the
students.
• Is known as thoughtless teaching
• This teaching is teachers centric
criticism of the teachers.

31. Democratic
• Teaching is done at understanding level.
• Memory level teaching is the prerequisite (concept)
is first memorized and then understand
• Such teaching is known as thoughtful teaching.
• According to this point of view, teaching is an
interactive process, primarily involving classroom
talks which takes place between teachers and
student.
• Here students can ask questions and criticize the
teachers.
• Here students can ask the questions and self-
disciplined is insisted.

32. Laissez Faire Attitude
• It is known as reflective level teaching.
• It is more difficult then memory level and
understanding level of teaching.
• Memory level and understanding level teaching
are must for the reflective level of teaching.
• It is highly thoughtful activity.
• In this level both students and teachers are
participants.
• This level produces insights.