This document discusses teaching and learning skills for nursing sciences. It defines teaching as imparting knowledge through the learning process. It explains that teaching is both an art that requires skills and a science based on systematic knowledge. It outlines various teacher competencies like having knowledge of child development, suitable teaching methods, and positive attitudes. It also lists competencies that contribute to good mental health in teaching, such as having a philosophy of life. The document then discusses maxims of teaching, general teaching principles, and teaching skills at different stages of a lesson like planning, introduction, presentation, and closing. It also covers the concept of learning as a relatively permanent change in behavior from practice and experience.

1. KLE’S INSTITUTE OF
NURSING SCIENCES – HUBLI
TEACHING & LEARNING SKILLS

2. 1.1. Concept of Teaching :
“Teaching is a distinctively human activity. it is imparting of
knowledge and the learning process, the means by which the
student assimilates a share of it.
Teaching is an art because it is practiced with skills and a
science, because it is based on a body of systematically derived
knowledge converted to principles with which to guide its
practices.
Teaching Skills :
1. Introduction :

3. 1.2 Meaning of Teacher competence :
The common wealth Report (1974) explains teachers
competency as “In order to be competent the teacher must have a
knowledge of child development of the material to be taught and
suitable methods his skills must enable him to teach, advice and
guide his pupils, community and culture with which he is involved,
his attitudes should be positive without being aggressive, so that
his example is likely to be followed as he transmits explicitly and
implicitly the national aims and moral and social values.

4. 1.3 Competencies contributing to good mental health in
teaching :
1. Each teacher should acquire and maintain certain
qualities which are characteristics of mature personality.
2. Each teacher should develop a philosophy of life and
education.
3. Each teacher should possess knowledge of the nature of
human growth and development.
4. Each teacher should possess an appreciation and
understanding of the meaning and practice of democracy
in the classroom.
5. Each teacher should have an understanding of the
objectives and function of each social institution as the
family, the religious, institutions, Govt agencies and the
schools.

5. 9. Each teacher should possess abilities in effective
use of expressive and receptive communication.
6. Each teacher should have knowledge of the ideas, leader
and events that produced the heritage of the nation .
7. Each teacher should have knowledge of the life, cultural
and Government of peoples in various countries.
8. Each teacher should have an understanding of the moral
values and ethics of the teaching profession.

6. II. Maxims of Teaching :
1. Proceed from known to unknown –
2. Easy to difficult :
3. Simple to complex :
4. Concrete to abstract :
5. Particular to general :
6. Analysis to synthesis :
7. Whole to parts :
8. Empirical to rational :
9. Psychological to logical :
10. Actual to the representative :

7. III General Principles of Teaching :
1. Definite Aim :
2. Learning by Doing :
3. Linking with action life & other subjects :
4. Planning :
a) Selection :
b) Division :
c) Revision :
5. Interest or Motivation :
6. Sympathy & Kind Atmosphere :
7. Flexibility & Co-operation :
8. Diagnostic & Remedial teaching :
9. Looking Ahead :
10.Creativity :

8. IV. Teaching Skills at Different Stages of Lesson : Teaching skills
are classified for the sake of convenience otherwise they are
interrelated
Planning Stage : The activities carried out in this stage :
A.) Writing Instructional objectives :
1 Formulating objectives :
• Teacher centered objectives :
• Subject matter centered objectives :
• Behaviour – Centered objectives :
• Learner centered objectives :
2 Three domains of objectives :
a) Cognitive Domain (Intellectual skills & knowledge)
Recall of facts :
Interpretation of data :
Problem solving :
b) Conative or psychomotor skills or practical skills :
Imitation :
Control :
Automatism :

9. c) Domain of attitudes : (Communication skills)
Attention :
Response :
Inter nationalization :
B) Selecting Content :
a) Time management :
b) Organising the content :
C) Selection of AV AIDS :
Guides for selecting AV aids are :
a) Aid must be easy to see and understand.
b) Simple and direct
c) Easy to handle and transport
d) Emphasizes the key point
e) Convey upto date ideas.
f) Accurate
g) Please the senses.
h) Select the colours which are natural of related items,
appealing attractive, clears & visible appropriate to
the pictures.

10. II. Introductory Stage Skills :
Introducing the topic should start from discussing and
reviewing the previous class and then the today’s topic should
be introduced by asking some related questions
III. Presentation Stage Skills :
A) Questioning Skills : It includes
Probing Question :
Fluency in asking question :
Higher order questions :
Divergent question :
B) Presentation Skills : Includes.
Lecturing :
Demonstrating
Explanation
Explanation with examples –
Discussion.

11. C) Audiovisual Aids Skills :
Using sufficient teaching aids
Using black board
Stimulate variation :
Silence and non verbal cues :
D) Managerial Skills :
Promoting pupil involvement & participation
Ability to judge while teaching how much interest the
students
are taking in the lesson.
IV. Closing Stage Skills :
A) Planned recapitulation : A revision or repetition of the
knowledge learnt in the lesson.

12. Learning Skills :
I. Concept of Learning : Learning is may
relatively permanent change or
modification of behaviour that results as a
result of practice or experience.
II. Steps in Skills (Learning)
• Preparation :
• Presentation :
• Comparison of Association :
• Generalization :
• Application :

13. CONCLUSION

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