What Is Teaching
WHAT IS TEACHING?
Teaching is to provide instructions and knowledge to someone. The term teaching is commonly used to name the set of activities which someone intentionally undertakes to guide someone to learn something. The overall purpose of teaching is getting someone to truly understand what it is that is being taught. An example of teaching is my mother teaching me how to properly cook curry chicken her goal was to teach me how to cook the curry without burning it; she used to say “burnt curry ruins the pot”.
WHAT IS TEACHING?
Learning is the acquiring of knowledge, skills, values and behaviors by study, experience of instructions. The imparting of knowledge is known as teaching, but when the teaching is introduced in a formal setting it becomes education. Therefore, they all go hand-in-hand.
Teaching should be about listening, questioning, being responsive and remembering that everyone learns differently. It is about presenting concepts to be clearly understood by all, not just facts. A good teacher should help his/her students see the connections between the facts.
It should peak the interest of the learner. Often times students are asked to memorize a lot of information in order to pass a test, sounds crazy right; but it is true. Students today are more focused on only what they need to know to pass the class. The question is have they really learned anything? If the test is passed does that ensure the student has learned the material or merely just memorized it? J.S. Atherton (2011) wrote that “students are also learning from other sources including colleagues and the sheer experience of being in the educational system”. In my own personal experience it was how the subject was presented that determined the extent of my learning.
I remember one day in science class my teacher was telling the class about clouds and tornadoes and to be honest I really wasn’t paying attention until he said today we are going to
Teaching is to provide instructions and knowledge to someone. The term teaching is commonly used to name the set of activities which someone intentionally undertakes to guide someone to learn something. The overall purpose of teaching is getting someone to truly understand what it is that is being taught. An example of teaching is my mother teaching me how to properly cook curry chicken her goal was to teach me how to cook the curry without burning it; she used to say “burnt curry ruins the pot”.
WHAT IS TEACHING?
Learning is the acquiring of knowledge, skills, values and behaviors by study, experience of instructions. The imparting of knowledge is known as teaching, but when the teaching is introduced in a formal setting it becomes education. Therefore, they all go hand-in-hand.
Teaching should be about listening, questioning, being responsive and remembering that everyone learns differently. It is about presenting concepts to be clearly understood by all, not just facts. A good teacher should help his/her students see the connections between the facts.
It should peak the interest of the learner. Often times students are asked to memorize a lot of information in order to pass a test, sounds crazy right; but it is true. Students today are more focused on only what they need to know to pass the class. The question is have they really learned anything? If the test is passed does that ensure the student has learned the material or merely just memorized it? J.S. Atherton (2011) wrote that “students are also learning from other sources including colleagues and the sheer experience of being in the educational system”. In my own personal experience it was how the subject was presented that determined the extent of my learning.
I remember one day in science class my teacher was telling the class about clouds and tornadoes and to be honest I really wasn’t paying attention until he said today we are going to
References: Atherton J S (2011) Learning and Teaching; What is learning? [On-line: UK] retrieved 20 January 2013 from http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/whatlearn.htm Atherton J S (2011) Learning and Teaching; Bloom 's taxonomy [On-line: UK] retrieved 20 January 2013 from http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/bloomtax.htm