Teaching & Learning (2024)

FAQs

What is the definition of teaching and learning? ›

Teaching can be defined as engagement with learners to enable their understanding and application of knowledge, concepts and processes while learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught.

Teaching is the process of sharing knowledge, skills, and experiences with others in a way that helps them learn. It involves a variety of activities, such as planning, instruction, assessment, and feedback. Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge, skills, and experiences.

This process (four-step method of instruction) is used to relate the material that is in the lesson plan with the learner. The steps include preparation, presentation, application, and evaluation. Using this linear approach, the instructor begins with preparation (step one).

In the teaching-learning process, the teacher, the learner, and the curriculum are organised in a systematic way to achieve the educational goals and objectives. Learning is an inferred process and differs from a performance which is the observed behaviour/response/action.

Effective teaching is the knowledge, strategies, processes and behaviours which lead to good student outcomes. Effective teachers have a positive impact on their students and use their expertise to improve learning. These good outcomes are often those that can be measured easily, usually through summative assessment.

According to UNESCO's Learning: The Treasure within (1996), education throughout life is based on four pillars: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be.

Effective teaching involves aligning the three major components of instruction: learning objectives, assessments, and instructional activities.

Pupils learn in different ways: some from notes, some from visuals, some from hearing and some from practicing. The four learning styles can be defined as visual, auditory, kinaesthetic and logical. A different method of teaching can benefit each of the four types.

What are the 3 domains of teaching and learning? ›

The three domains of learning are cognitive, affective, and psychom*otor. There are a variety of methods in professional development events to engage the different learning domains.

Teaching is the practice implemented by a teacher aimed at transmitting skills (knowledge, know-how, and interpersonal skills) to a learner, a student, or any other audience in the context of an educational institution. Teaching is closely related to learning, the student's activity of appropriating this knowledge.

Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, non-human animals, and some machines; there is also evidence for some kind of learning in certain plants.

In education, teaching is the concerted sharing of knowledge and experience, which is usually organized within a discipline and, more generally, the provision of stimulus to the psychological and intellectual growth of a person by another person or artifact.

To conclude, teaching is a process of imparting new knowledge and learning is a process of acquiring new knowledge. The function of one concept is to give knowledge while the other is to acquire knowledge, but both can become possible only when they are both active.