teaching learning process

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2. Meaning of Teaching Teaching is a process intended for learning by including a behavioral change in the taught. It is an activity of facilitating learning.

3. Definition of teaching Teaching is an organized system of specific activities aimed to help the learners to learn something. (According to Smith) teaching as “an interactive process, primarily involving classroom talk which takes place between teacher and pupil and occurs during certain definable activities. (Edmund Amidon (1967)

4. Meaning of Learning • Learning is a process of assimilating information with a resultant change in behaviour. • Learning may be defined as the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes, skills & ways of thinking.

5. Definition of learning learning as- • Any activity can be called learning as far as it develops the individual (in any aspect, good or bad) & makes his behaviour & experiences different from what would otherwise have been. (According to Wood worth) Learning is the acquisition of new behavior or the strengthening or weakening of old behaviour as a result of experience (According to Henry Smith)

6. Style of learning There are two types of learning • Formal Learning • Informal Learning • Formal learning is intentional in nature whilst informal learning is accidental or unintentional. • Formal learning occurs in structured environment such as in classrooms whilst informal learning may happen anywhere such as outside the class, in corridor, at home, market, park etc.

7. Nature or Charectersticsof learning • Learning is a process which is continuous . It is a lifelong process hence learning starts from birth & ends only with the death of an individual. • Learning is the process which leads to mental growth of an individual. • Learning is purposeful • Learning is active process. Learning by doing is the best part of learning • Learning takes place individually& as well as socially • Learning brings about the change in the behaviour in individual

10. Relationship between teaching and learning • Both are complex process. • Both are formal as well as Informal Process. • Both are goal directed process. • Both involve specific tasks. • Both are occur in social context. • Both are interactive process.

11. Both are complex process • Teaching is a complex phenomenon as its nature is scientific as well as artistic. When we consider teaching as an art, we consider it loaded with emotions, feelings, values, beliefs and excitement When we consider teaching as science, then pedagogy is predictable to the extent that it can be observed and measured with some accuracy and research can be applied to the practice of teaching. • Learning is also a complex phenomenon. It is personal to each child and is the process of making sense of and using new information and experiences.

12. Both are Formal as well as Informal Process • Formal teaching is happened in structured classroom for acquiring knowledge and attaining some certificate or degree whilst informal teaching may happen outside the classroom such as home tuition or online teaching without any certificate. • Formal learning is occurred in structured environment such as in classrooms whilst informal learning may happen anywhere such as outside the class, in corridor, at home, market, park etc.

13. Both need social context • Teaching is a social process because it involves student, teacher and societal environment. The society and nature of human( student & teacher) is dynamic not static. • Learning is individual and social as well. Learning is individualized means learner construct the knowledge through assimilation and accommodation by restructuring his schemas whilst learning as a social process and the origination of human intelligence in society or culture

14. Both are Goal Oriented Process • Teaching-learning is a process through which the teacher and learner, curriculum and other variables are organized in a systematic manner in order to attain some pre-determined goals. • Goal of Teaching: To bring desirable modification in the behaviour of the students. Goal of Learning: Harmonious Development of personality and skills

15. Task involved in both Teachers and student Task during teaching learning • Planning the lesson • Present the lesson • evaluate Students' understanding • Participation in activities planned by teacher • Responding according to stimuli.

16. Interactive process • Teaching and communication cannot be separated. Teacher expresses his views on some topic by two types of communication • Verbal Communication • Non-Verbal Communication • Teaching- learning process is highly dominated by communication. In classroom communication teacher and learner/ group of learners play the role of sender and receiver vice versa.