This document discusses the teaching-learning process and the roles of teachers and learners. It states that effective teaching requires subject expertise, teaching competency, and qualities like adaptability, enthusiasm, leadership and open-mindedness from the teacher. The key aspects of teaching are imparting information, inspiring students, and building relationships. Learning is an individual activity that requires effort from both the teacher and learner to take place successfully through modifying behaviors. Both teachers and learners must understand how the other learns for the process to be effective.
4. What a Lecturer Does?
• Interpersonal Role
– A figure head, Leader, a liaison
• Information Role
– Monitors, Disseminates and Spokesperson
• Decision Role
– Entrepreneurs, Disturbance handler, resource
allocator, negotiator
5. Teaching: What is It?
• Teaching is imparting new information to
pupils
• Teaching is inspirational
• Teaching is a human relationship
– A relationship of love, not of fear
– A friendly relationship between the teacher
and the taught.
7. Teaching
• Is management of learning
• It is both an art & Science
• Subject-matter expertise + teaching-
competency = ‘necessary and
sufficient conditions’ of teaching
ability.
8. Lecturer must remember
• Student is working for himself not for the
teacher
• Learner begins where he is, not where the
teacher is
• Education is a matter of time and place
• Interest enhances effort
• Student is the center of the teaching
• A teacher may tire a class, just as a class
may tire a teacher
9. Learner
• Students
• Students don’t know how learning takes
place
• Student is working for himself not for the
teacher
• Learner begins where he is, not where the
teacher is
• Interest enhances effort
10. Learning
• It’s an activity
• Acquisition of knowledge or skills through
study, experience, or being taught
• Learning is the process of progressive
behavior adaptation (Skinner)
• It involves new ways of doing things, and it
operates in an individuals attempt to over
come obstacles or to adjust to new situations.
(Crow and Crow)
11. Learning: Fundamentals
• It is individual to a learner
• If learner is inactive, learning doesn’t take
place
• Self motivation is fundamental for learning
• Learn more effectively when they learn at
their own pace
• Different people learn at different rates with
different stimuli and in different environments
• Knowledge of results of performance has a
favorable effect on the subsequent learning
• Successful learning drives for more learning
12. Teaching-Learning Process
• Inputs
– Teacher effort
– Learner effort
• They generate Teaching-
learning process
• If effective & efficient
– Creates learning
experiences
– Results in Output
• Behavior modification
13. Teaching–Learning Process
• Teachers would have to learn how
learners learn
• Teachers should recall their own learning
experiences/days
• Learners would have to teach themselves
14. Lecturer must therefore have
• Adaptability
• Carefulness – accuracy definiteness and
thoroughness
• Consideration
• Co-operation
• Dependability and consistence
• Enthusiasm – alertness, animation,
inspiration
15. Lecturer must therefore have
• Fluency
• Forcefulness
• Sense of Judgment
• Industry – Patience and perseverance
• Leadership initiative and self confidence
• Magnetism – cheerfulness and sense of
humor
16. Lecturer must therefore have
• Open-mindedness
• Originality – imaginativeness,
resourcefulness
• Progressiveness
• Promptness
• Refinement – modesty, simplicity, morality
• Scholarship – intelligence, and intellectual
curiosity
• Self control – calmness, dignity, poise,
sobriety
17. Ethics for a Lecturer
• Be just, courteous, and skillful in managing
relations with students
• Should maintain confidentiality of
information pertaining to students
• Lecturer’s conduct should show that
education makes students better
• It is the burden of the lecturer to keep
himself abreast of the modern trends in
education