The Nature of Teaching
Teaching is a process that facilitates learning.
Teaching is the specialized application of knowledge, skills and attributes designed to provide unique service to meet the educational needs of the individual and the society.
Teaching emphasizes the development of values and guides students in their social relationships.
What is a Profession?
A profession is an occupation that involves specialised training and formal qualification before one is allowed to practice or work.
Society and community place a great deal of trust in the professions.
A formal qualification (university or college diploma, degree) gained over time.
Specialized Knowledge (e.g. teaching secondary Mathematics)
License or permission to practice
Exhibits high agreed standards of behavior and practice
Someone with high personal standards and values
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Constructivism, modular curriculum, credit system, Information technology these all are the emerging trends in curriculum development. These trends should be given proper justice while developing curriculum. Educators should learn to work together with their students, and with other experts in creating content, and are able to tailor it to exactly what they need.
Technology in Teaching and Learning : useful slides for the researchers, academicians and in any field of education at all levels of such as Primary, secondary, higher secondary, and higher education. Can be used both by the teachers as instructional materials, students as learning materials, researchers as references and reviews, and organizations for training purposes. Can be used as innovative teaching method, innovative instructional strategies in teaching contents. Also useful in teaching various subjects like Physics, chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Tamil, English and maths and other subjects. Involves EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, Educational Technology-Objectives, Scope of Educational Technology, Technology in Education, Technology of Education, Teaching with technology, Technology Usage in the Classroom, Technology can enhance teaching and learning .
BEST PRACTICES FOR USING TECHNOLOGY ,
The Nature of Teaching
Teaching is a process that facilitates learning.
Teaching is the specialized application of knowledge, skills and attributes designed to provide unique service to meet the educational needs of the individual and the society.
Teaching emphasizes the development of values and guides students in their social relationships.
What is a Profession?
A profession is an occupation that involves specialised training and formal qualification before one is allowed to practice or work.
Society and community place a great deal of trust in the professions.
A formal qualification (university or college diploma, degree) gained over time.
Specialized Knowledge (e.g. teaching secondary Mathematics)
License or permission to practice
Exhibits high agreed standards of behavior and practice
Someone with high personal standards and values
.............................................
Constructivism, modular curriculum, credit system, Information technology these all are the emerging trends in curriculum development. These trends should be given proper justice while developing curriculum. Educators should learn to work together with their students, and with other experts in creating content, and are able to tailor it to exactly what they need.
Technology in Teaching and Learning : useful slides for the researchers, academicians and in any field of education at all levels of such as Primary, secondary, higher secondary, and higher education. Can be used both by the teachers as instructional materials, students as learning materials, researchers as references and reviews, and organizations for training purposes. Can be used as innovative teaching method, innovative instructional strategies in teaching contents. Also useful in teaching various subjects like Physics, chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Tamil, English and maths and other subjects. Involves EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, Educational Technology-Objectives, Scope of Educational Technology, Technology in Education, Technology of Education, Teaching with technology, Technology Usage in the Classroom, Technology can enhance teaching and learning .
BEST PRACTICES FOR USING TECHNOLOGY ,
This was for EDUC 203 (Facilitating Learning).
This was the topic after Constructivism.
Includes Types of Transfer, Reasons Why Transfer Doesn't Work and Conditions and Principles for Transfer.
This was for EDUC 203 (Facilitating Learning).
This was the topic after Constructivism.
Includes Types of Transfer, Reasons Why Transfer Doesn't Work and Conditions and Principles for Transfer.
Curriculum is a concept that is understood differently by different people in different context, threfore, here I provide an overview of what curriculum is according to Stenhouse.
This model guides teachers to go to the depth of the content. And helps students to attain new concepts. So the model has a great attribute on teaching -learning process.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
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This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
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2. Objectives
1. Discuss Schooling vs. Education
2. Discuss the Art & Science of Teaching
3. Discuss Teaching as a Profession
4. Identify and Describe Professional
Organizations
5. Identify and Describe the
Characteristics of Effective Teachers
6. List the Principles of Teaching &
Learning
4. ed-u-ca-tion [ej-oo-key-shun]
noun
1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general
knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning
and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or
others intellectually for mature life.
2. the act or process of imparting or acquiring
particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.
3. a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a university
education.
4. the result produced by instruction, training, or
study: to show one's education.
5. the science or art of teaching; pedagogies.
5. school-ing [skoo-ling]
noun
1. the process of being taught in a
school.
2. instruction, education, or training,
especially when received in a
school.
3. the act of teaching.
6. The Purpose of Education
Education is:
– an adventure of the self – of private
purpose and experience.
Schooling is:
– A sociopolitical invention that seeks to
design a context or contexts for
shaping many “self’s”
– Children can become educated
without schools.
•From John I Goodlad, 1997.
7. The Purpose of Education
For schooling:
• education should be guided and
conducted to advance not just the
maturation of self, but also some public
need or good.
• The definition of public need or good
varies widely from society to society.
• “Don’t let schooling get in the way of
your education”. Mark Twain.
8. The Purpose of Education
•Transmit Culture
•Self Discipline
•Teach Values
•Teach About Life
•Teach How to Learn
“Give children a desire to learn and to teach them
how to use their minds and where to go to acquire
facts when their curiosity is aroused.” ~Elanor
Roosevelt
10. Teaching is a science
• Study and explanation of
learning
• Systematic process
• Body of knowledge
• An applied science based on research
• Methods of teaching and the
learning environment can be
organized on a scientific or
objective basis
- Good plans, good tests, organized
presentations
11. Teaching is an art
• Artistic process achieving an end
product
• Imagination, intuition, skill
• Category of artistic activity
• Improv, performance art, dynamic,
unique, what, how, & when, to do
• Trade and a craft
• The practice of your trade, is indeed an
artistic process, extreme multi-tasking
• Skills depend greatly upon
personality variables
- Enthusiasm, caring, helpful
12. A vision and a reality
• Teaching is the most difficult of all arts
and the profoundest of all sciences.”
– Horace Mann
• Education is an admirable thing, but it is
well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth knowing can be
taught.
– Oscar Wilde
• What does education often do? It makes
a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering
brook.
– Henry David Thoreau
14. Four Characteristics of
a Profession
• Defined body of knowledge
beyond the grasp of the public
• Control over licensing,
certification, and entry
requirements
• Autonomy in making decisions
• High prestige and economic status.
– From: O. Stein, 1981.
15. Teaching as a Profession
Doctors & Lawyers argue that a profession
involves…
• Lifelong career commitment
• Social service
• Intellectual technique
• Code of ethics
• Independent judgment relative to professional
performance
Does it possess a specialized body of
knowledge?
16. Educational Organizations
• Professional Organizations (ACTE, NAAE)
– Develop in-service for teachers
– Represent members politically
– Provide teacher resources (journals, supplies)
– Insurance
• Teacher Unions (NEA, AFT)
– Professional in-service
– Collective Bargaining
– Insurance
• Trade organizations
– Specific to technical areas (e.g., NCBA, AWS,
etc.)
19. Measures of “effective teaching”?
•Student Learning
– Gain in student knowledge is the
best indicator of teaching
effectiveness
20. Being an Effective Teacher!
• Research on Teacher Effectiveness
consistently finds 5 variables that
are highly correlated with student
learning
1. Clarity
2. Variability
3. Enthusiasm
4. Task-Oriented & Businesslike
Behaviors
5. Opportunity to Learn Criterion
Material (Objectives)
Rosenshien & Furst (1971)
21. Clarity
• Organization of the
content
• Concepts & content
clearly explained
• Gives multiple
examples
• Points out practical
application
• Repeats difficult
ideas
• Assignments &
directions are clear
24. Task-oriented & Business
Like Behaviors
• Objectives
• Concerned with
learning
• Encourages hard
and creative work
• Organization
from syllabus on
first day, to
objectives of daily
lesson, to
assessment
• Timing & pacing
25. Opportunity to Learn
Criterion Material
(Objectives)
• Teach to
established
objectives
• Relationship
between
objectives,
instruction and
assessment
27. Principles of Learning &
Teaching
1. Subject matter must possess
meaning, organization, &
structure
2. Readiness is a prerequisite for
learning, begin at the students
level
3. Students must be motivated to
learn
4. Students will rise to the level of
expectation
28. Principles of Learning &
Teaching
5. Success is a motivating source.
6. Students must be provided with
their learning progress.
7. Reinforced behaviors are more
likely to be learned.
8. Directed learning is more effective
than undirected learning.
29. Principles of Learning &
Teaching
9. Students should “Inquire into” vs.
being “instructed in” the subject
matter.
10. Students learn what they practice
and apply – in a supervised
educational setting.
