The document discusses the stages of teaching and learning. It defines teaching as a process of interacting with students to enable them to acquire knowledge, skills, values and attitudes. Teaching involves organizing strategies and activities to promote learning. It is both a science and an art that is based on psychological research and how those relationships are implemented. Characteristics of effective teaching include careful planning, being suggestive, kind, inspirational, accommodating individual differences, cooperative, experience-based, progressive, confidence-building and allowing self-paced learning. Learning is defined as the acquisition of habits, knowledge and attitudes through experiences that result in behavioral changes. Characteristics of learning include growth, organization of experiences, being purposeful and active. The stages of