The document discusses principles and maxims of teaching. It defines teaching as helping students acquire knowledge and skills while developing their personality, mind, spirit, and character. The purposes of teaching include immediate mastery of subjects as well as overall growth. Key principles of teaching outlined are having clear aims, being activity-based, linking to real life, planning, motivating students, and having a supportive environment. Characteristics of good teaching include appropriate responsibility, indirect control by teachers, well-managed classrooms, and personal relationships between teachers and students. Maxims of teaching provide guidance on moving from known to unknown concepts and from simple to complex ideas.
4. Introduction
• Teaching is an art
It is an activity, which is practiced with skill.
It cannot be reduced to any exact sequential series of actions, it involves
two dynamic factors
The mind's natural activity of the learner.
The intellectual guidance on the part of the teacher, with principal dynamic factor
• Teaching is a science, because it is based on the body of systematically
derived knowledge, converted to principles with which to guide its
practices.
5. Definition
“Teaching is immediate mastery of particular
knowledge or skill. It is concerned with growth and
development of whole personality of the student – her
mind, spirit, character and effective behavior. “
" Teaching is a form of interpersonal influence aimed at
changing the behavior potential of another person.“
- According to N.L.Gage
6. PURPOSES
Immediate mastery over the subject with its
related skills is important, but advancement
toward growth in all spheres of the human
personality.
Development of the wholesome personality, of the
learner.
7. Cont…
To help
students
Acquire,
retain and be
able to use
knowledge.
Understand,
analyses,
synthesize and
evaluate the
knowledge.
Achieve
the skills
Establis
h habits
Develop
attitudes
9. 1. The principle of aim.
2. The principle of activity or learning by
doing.
3. The principle of linking with actual life
and other subjects.
4. The principle of planning.
5. The principle of interest or motivation.
10. 6. The principle of sympathy and the kind
atmosphere.
7. Principle of flexibility and cooperation.
8. The principle of diagnostic and
remedial teaching.
9. The principle of looking ahead.
10. The principle of creativity.
12. 1. Requires appropriate
responsibleness to the
date, the child and the
group placing in the
situation. The child
activities can be rewarded
properly.
2. Requires a
reduction in the
controlling functions
exercised continuously
by the teacher.
Teacher behavior
should be indirect.
3. Requires that the
classroom should be well
managed, so that the
business of learning may
receive full attention.
Teacher’s perform the
functions of controlling with
clarity and with consistency.
4. Requires that the
human environment
should be accepted by
individual that in some
way it tells him he is
important. It suggests a
personal report between
teachers and the students.
5. Keeps or maintains
the interpersonal
relationship supportive
within the classroom. Out
of this a shared problem
solving, attitude
development.
6. Require that the teacher
should be a well-educated
mature person who has
insight and energy for this
demanding job.it requires
the responsive human
environment that fosters
explorations and initiative.
14. KNOWN TO
UNKNOWN
EASY TO
DIFFICULT
SIMPLE TO
COMPLEX
CONCRETE
TO
ABSTRACT
PARTICULAR
TO GENERAL
ANALYSIS TO
SYNTHESIS
WHOLE
TO
PARTS
EMPIRICAL
TO
RATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGIC
AL TO LOGICAL
ACTUAL TO THE
REPRESENTATIVE