Teaching | Teaching Skills | Teaching learning Process | Teaching learning Methods

What do you mean by Teaching?

Teaching is a series of events through which a teacher attempts to bring desired change in behavior of the students. This brings about a change in the feeling, thinking and action of the students. It helps them to adapt to their environment.

Teaching | Teaching Skills | Teaching learning Process | Teaching learning Methods

What are the Teaching Skills?

A great teacher is one who a student remembers and cherishes forever. Teachers have long-lasting impacts on the lives of their students and the greatest teachers inspire students towards greatness.

Various Teaching skills are used for making teaching effective so that learning takes place. Different educationalists have classified these skills differently.

 Some of these are as follows:-

ü  Stimulous variation

ü  Set induction

ü  Closure

ü  Silence and non-verbal cues

ü  Reinforcement

ü  Asking questions

ü  Probing questions

ü  Divergent questions

ü  Higher order questions

ü  Attending behavior

ü  Illustrating

ü  Lecturing

ü  Planned repetition

ü  Completeness of communication

What is Teaching Learning Process?

Teaching involves interaction between teacher and students for students to understand a given concept. The motive behind teaching is to develop cognitive skills and brings changes in the behavior of the students which is called “learning” in educational psychology.

Learning is a constant process which never ends. Thus, we can say that teaching and learning both are two sides of the same coin. There are various principles of teaching learning process. 

Some of them are discussed below:-

    1) Definite Purpose:

Before teaching, a teacher should define his teaching purpose. In other words, the teaching should follow certain goals or aims. These goals can be of two types – ‘ general goals ‘ and ‘ specific goals ‘ both of which are related to the subject and teaching content simultaneously.

)   2) Correlation:

The principle of correlation forces on the teacher to teach with the help of the correlation method. In other words, it can be said that this principle follows the rule of inductive to deductive teaching. This method not only makes teaching effective, but also makes learning permanent for the students.

    3) Motivation:

Motivation is the most important factor in the development of a student. It can be internal or external. Internal motivation is the result of students’ internal reward, but external motivation is related to the behavior of the teacher towards the students. Motivation helps both the teacher to teach and students to learn.

    4) Reinforcement:

This process is based on the concepts of behavioral psychology. The theory about reinforcement producing learning was propounded by the famous behavioural psychologist named BF Skinner. According to this theory human behavior is governed by two types of reinforcements , one is positive and other is negative.

     5) Stimulation:

This refers to a state of arousal within the individual. It means that when an individual is stimulated, he is more effective and active during the learning process. Factors like environment, personal interests, teaching technology, teaching learning material etc are examples of agents of stimulation.

     6) Revision and Practice:

The proverb ‘practice makes a man perfect’ means that a teacher must provide exercises for practice to enable the students to revise their lesson and learning. It is also used to evaluate the students’ learning and the teacher’s teaching.

What are the Methods of Teaching-learning?

There are four methods of presenting the subject matter. These are as follows:

a) Telling Method: This includes lecture, discussion, story telling and so on.

b) Project Method: This includes project, problem-solving, textbook method and so on.

c) Visual Method: This includes demonstration, supervised study etc.

d) Mental Method: This includes inductive, deductive, analysis, synthesis etc.