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Teaching Concept: 1 - Dr.C.Thanavathi

Teaching is a complex process aimed at causing behavioral changes in students. It involves organizing variables like the learner, teacher, and curriculum in a systematic way to achieve goals. Teaching is dynamic in nature and influenced by social and human factors, making it both an art and a science. The objectives of teaching include shaping conduct, acquiring knowledge, improving learning skills, and providing students to become efficient members of society. Characteristics of teaching include different types of knowledge like content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, as well as maintaining a professional attitude and engaging in reflective practice.

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Teaching Concept: 1 - Dr.C.Thanavathi

Teaching is a complex process aimed at causing behavioral changes in students. It involves organizing variables like the learner, teacher, and curriculum in a systematic way to achieve goals. Teaching is dynamic in nature and influenced by social and human factors, making it both an art and a science. The objectives of teaching include shaping conduct, acquiring knowledge, improving learning skills, and providing students to become efficient members of society. Characteristics of teaching include different types of knowledge like content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, as well as maintaining a professional attitude and engaging in reflective practice.

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Teaching Concept
Teaching is a complex process that brings a socially desirable behavioural change in a
person. In the traditional concept, teaching is the act of imparting instructions to the learners in
the classroom situation. But in the modern concept, teaching is to cause the pupil to learn and
acquire the desired knowledge, skills and also desirable ways of living in society. It is a process
in which the learner, teacher, curriculum and other variables are organized in a systematic and
psychological way to attain some predetermined goals.

Teaching is a part of the teaching-learning process. It is required to bring specific


changes in a person according to the needs of his society and the environment in which he is
living. ‘Teaching is not an act as it is dynamic in nature, so it is termed as a process’. It is also
not a fundamental concept as it is greatly influenced by social and human factors.

Definition of Teaching

Ryburn: Teaching is a relationship which keeps the child to develop all his powers.

Burton: Teaching is the stimulation, guidance, direction, and encouragement of learning.

B.O.Smith: Teaching is a system of actions intended to produce learning.

Gage (1963): “Teaching is a form interpersonal influence aimed at changing the behaviour
potential another person”

Objectives of Teaching Concept

⮚ To bring desired changes in public.


⮚ To shape behavior and conduct.
⮚ Acquisition of knowledge
⮚ To improve the learning skills of students.
⮚ Formulation of belief.
⮚ To provide a social and efficient member of society.

Nature and Characteristics of Teaching

Nature of Teaching:

Dynamic, social and Humane: Teaching is not a fundamental concept because it is greatly
influenced by social and human factors that are dynamic in themselves.
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Both Art and Science: Teaching is both art and science. It calls for the exercise of talent and
creativity making it an art and involving a repertoire of techniques, procedures, and skills that
can be studied systematically, described, and improved making it science.

Diverse in Application: In application, teaching is of diverse nature. It may have various forms
as formal, informal, directional, instructional, formation, training, conditioning, indoctrination,
talking, showing, doing, remedial, etc.,

⮚ To provide guidance and training


⮚ Interaction
⮚ An art to giving knowledge.
⮚ A science to educate fact and causes.
⮚ Continuing process
⮚ Encourages students to learn more.
⮚ Formal as well as informal.
⮚ Communication of information to students.
⮚ Tool to help the student to adjust himself in society and its environment,

Characteristics of Teaching

Content Knowledge (CK) – This describes teachers’ own knowledge of the subject matter.
CK may include knowledge of concepts, theories, evidence, and organizational frameworks
within a particular subject matter; it may also include the field’s best practices and established
approaches to communicating this information to students. CK will also differ according to
discipline and grade level – for example, middle-school science and history classes require less
detail and scope than undergraduate or graduate courses, so their various instructors’ CK may
differ, or the CK that each class imparts to its students will differ.

Pedagogical Knowledge (PK) – This describes teachers’ knowledge of the practices,


processes, and methods regarding teaching and learning. As a generic form of knowledge, PK
encompasses the purposes, values, and aims of education, and may apply to more specific areas
including the understanding of student learning styles, classroom management skills, lesson
planning, and assessments.

Technological Knowledge (TK) – This describes teachers’ knowledge of, and ability to use,
various technologies, technological tools, and associated resources. TK concerns
understanding edtech, considering its possibilities for a specific subject area or classroom,
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learning to recognize when it will assist or impede learning, and continually learning and
adapting to new technology offerings.

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) – This describes teachers’ knowledge regarding


foundational areas of teaching and learning, including curricula development, student
assessment, and reporting results. PCK focuses on promoting learning and on tracing the links
among pedagogy and its supportive practices (curriculum, assessment, etc.), and much like CK,
will also differ according to grade level and subject matter. In all cases, though, PCK seeks to
improve teaching practices by creating stronger connections between the content and the
pedagogy used to communicate it.

Technological Content Knowledge (TCK) – This describes teachers’ understanding of how


technology and content can both influence and push against each other. TCK involves
understanding how the subject matter can be communicated via different edtech offerings, and
considering which specific edtech tools might be best suited for specific subject matters or
classrooms.

Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) – This describes teachers’ understanding of


how particular technologies can change both the teaching and learning experiences by
introducing new pedagogical affordances and constraints. Another aspect of TPK concerns
understanding how such tools can be deployed alongside pedagogy in ways that are appropriate
to the discipline and the development of the lesson at hand.
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Professional Attitude

A professional attitude is the manner in which you conduct yourself in a


professional setting. In this context, the term attitude often describes both how you appear and
how you act. A professional attitude is often more formal than a personal attitude, in terms of
appearance, comportment and interaction. While personal attitudes come relatively naturally
to most people, professional attitudes are often specifically developed and tweaked to best fit
the environment, workplace or group of people you're interacting with.

Reflective Practice

Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to take a critical


stance or attitude towards one's own practice and that of one's peers, engaging in a process of
continuous adaptation and learning. Reflection is a systematic reviewing process for all
teachers which allows you to make links from one experience to the next, making sure your
students make maximum progress.

Reflective practice is ‘learning through and from experience towards gaining new insights of
self and practice’ (Finlay, 2008).

Aims/Goals of Teaching Concept:

✔ Teaching-To bring changes in the behavious of students.


✔ Conditioning-To improve the learning skills of students.
✔ Training-Shaping behavior and conduct.
✔ Instruction-Acquisition of knowledge.
✔ Indoctrination-Formation of belief.

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