Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Elements, Characteristics

1. TEACHING APTITUDE
PRESENTED BY
SIMRAN KAUR

2. CONCEPT OF TEACHING
▪ Teaching is a face-to-face, formal, direct situation in which the ideas
and instructions pass from one biologically responsive organism to
another in a social matrix.
▪ Teaching is learning-oriented as learning is modification of behavior.

3. TEACHING IN INDIA
▪ In India, the National Policy on Education, 1986 and the Programme
of Action 1986 have emphasized the need for a complete
restructuring of teaching education.
▪ The scheme of Restructuring and Re-organization of Teacher was
introduced in 1987, aimed at teacher’s orientation, training and
upgradation of knowledge, pedagogical skills, and competence.
Under this scheme, following were decided:
1. Setting of District Institutes of Education andTraining (DIET)
2. Upgrading the existing teacher training colleges education and
development of institutes ofAdvanced Studies in Education.

4. DEFINITIONS OF TEACHING
▪ MORRISON: “Teaching is a disciplined social process in which
teacher influences the behavior of the less experienced pupil and
helps him develop according to the needs and ideas of the society.
Thus, teaching is reduced to what the teacher teaches”.
▪ MORRISON: “Teaching is an intimate contact between a more
mature personality and a less mature one which is designed to
further the education of the latter”.
▪ N L GAGE: “Teaching is a form of interpersonal influence aimed at
changing the behavior potential of another person”.

5. DEFINITIONS OF TEACHING
▪ EDMUND AMIDON: “Teaching is an interactive process, primarily
involving classroom talk which takes place between the teacher and
pupils and occurs during definable activities”.
▪ JOHN BRUBACHER: “Teaching is an arrangement and manipulation
of a situation in which there are gaps and obstructions which an
individual will seek to overcome and from which he will learn in the
course of doing so”.

6. NATURE OF TEACHING
▪ Teaching is the specialized application of knowledge, skills and
attributes designed to provide unique services to meet the
educational needs of the individual and of society.
▪ The choice of learning activities whereby the goals of education are
realized in the educational institution is the responsibility of the
teaching profession.
▪ A teacher is said to be a failure if he is unable to transmit knowledge
to the pupils even if he has abilities, merit and mastery of subject.

7. NATURE OF TEACHING
▪ The teacher needs two things:
1. The complete knowledge of the subject matter
2. The scientific knowledge of the teaching styles for disseminating
the knowledge to the pupils

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF TEACHING
▪ A system of actions
▪ A professional activity
▪ Subjected to analysis and assessment
▪ An interactive process
▪ A specialized task
▪ A collection of various modes

9. OBJECTIVES OF TEACHING
▪ To bring desired changes in pupils
▪ To shape behavior and conduct
▪ Acquisition of knowledge
▪ To improve learning skills of students
▪ Formation of belief
▪ To provide a social and efficient member to the society
▪ To understand realities properly and may adjust in a better way

10. ELEMENTS OF TEACHING APTITUDE
▪ Causing to learn
▪ Includes the provision of desirable information
▪ Needs efficient planning
▪ Selective
▪ Sympathetic
▪ Cooperative
▪ An organization of learning

11. ELEMENTS OF TEACHING APTITUDE
▪ Democratic
▪ Progressive
▪ Leads to the emotional stability
▪ Means of preparation
▪ Both diagnostic and remedial

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