The document outlines the essential elements of teaching and learning, focusing on the roles of teachers, learners, and the learning environment. It discusses the various attributes and influences that impact learners, including their abilities, interests, and backgrounds, as well as the teachers' professional and personal attributes that foster effective teaching. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of a conducive learning environment, characterized by proper physical arrangements, positive interactions, and support for individual learning styles.

1. THE ELEMENTS of TEACHING
and LEARNING
Yenna Monica D. P.

2. The Principal Elements that make teaching
and learning possible and attainable:
The Teachers, the Learners, and a Conducive Learning
Environment

3. Learners
 Prime mover of the educational wheel
 Key participants in the learning process
Favorable Environment
 Provides essential features and ingredients that
could make headway in guiding the processes and
methodologies needed for a smooth linkage of the
elements
Teachers

4. The Learner
 Nature of the learner
 Fundamental Equipment of the
Learner
All learners are equipped with cognitive as well as appetitive faculties,
however, they differ in the degree to which they are utilized and
expressed on the account of the learners‟ abilities, aptitudes, interests,
values and attitudes, and home background.
 Ability
- dictates the prospects of success in any purposeful activity
- determines capacity to understand and assimilate information
 Aptitude
- innate talent or gift
- natural capacity to learn certain skills
 Interests
- learners vary in activities that are undertaken due to a strong appeal or
attraction.
- lessons that gibe the learners the chance to express themselves will be
more meaningful and effective
 Family and Cultural Background
- students who come from different socioeconomic background manifest a
wide range of behavior due to differences in upbringing practices
 Attitudes
- an individual „s perspective and disposition
- some positive learner attitudes are curiousity, responsibility, creativity
and persistence

5. The Learner
 Gardner’s Multiple
Intelligence Theory
 Verbal-Linguistic
 Logical-Mathematical
 Spatial
 Bodily-Kinesthetic
 Musical
 Interpersonal
 Intrapersonal
 Naturalist

6. The Learner
 Learning Styles
 Sensitive-thinking (Mastery Learner)
 Intuitive Thinking (Understanding Learner)
 Intuitive-Feeling (Self-Expressive)
 Sensing-Feeling (Interpersonal Learner)
 David Kolb’s Learning Styles

7. The Teacher
 Professional Attributes
 control of the knowledge base of teaching and learning
and use this knowledge to guide the science and art of
his/her teaching practice
 Repertoire of best teaching practice can use these to
instruct children in classrooms and to work with adults in
the school setting
 Disposition and skills to approach all aspects of his/her
work in a reflective, collegial, and problem-solving
manner.
 “life-long” learners
 Personal Attributes
 Passion
 Humor
 Values
- open mindedness (promoting respect and trust between
teachers and learners)
- fairness and impartiality (no discrimination, must be
unbiased and objective in judging the learners‟ work and
performance)
- professionalism (knowledgeable, skilled, and value-
laden)
 Patience
 Enthusiasm

8. The Learning Environment
The place where teaching and learning can take place in the most
effective and productive manner.
To plan and implement all teaching and learning activities, it must
consist of the:
 Classroom
 Instructional features
 Non-threatening classroom climate

9. The Learning Environment
 Arrangement of Furniture
- (table for demonstration)neatly arranged with sufficient spaces
in between
- (display shelves) for safe keeping of projects, collections,
outstanding work
- (bulletin board) for posters, announcements and illustrations
- board (black or white) for clarifying step-by-step procedures
and making clear diagrams, illustrations and figures
- (teaching devices e.g globes, maps, charts) can be kept in
nearby cabinets together with simple tools and materials
- (Day‟s lesson table) to set aside supplies, tools and/or
materials for the day‟s lesson
 Physical Condition of the Classroom
- clean and orderly set-up
- natural light and flowing fresh air/ proper ventilation
- free from noise and distractions from the surroundings
- light fixtures are located where needed
 Interactions
- cater to diverse situations
- primary goal: to motivate learners to work harmoniously, thereafter,
inculcate the values of cooperation and congeniality
 Facilitates Learning
- encourages people to be active
- promotes and facilitates the individuals discovery of the personal
meaning of idea
- emphasizes the uniquely personal and subjective nature of learning in
w/c difference is good and desirable
- consistently recognizes people‟s right to make mistakes
- tolerates ambiguity
- Evaluation is a cooperative process with emphasis on self evaluation
- encourages openness of self rather than concealment of self
- people are encouraged to trust in themselves as well as in external
resources
- people feel they are respected and accepted
- permits confrontation

10. THE ELEMENTS of TEACHING
and LEARNING
Yenna Monica D. P.
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