The Nature of Teaching
Introduction:
The Nature of Teaching
The nature of teaching has been conceptualized and explained n countless ways, one conceptualized is that teaching is the act of providing activities that facilitate learning, another view runs likes this”Teaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what the teacher is doing in her classes, if the student are not learning something significant, she is not teaching, when the student fails, the teacher fails more. Quite similar to the two foregoing definitions is one attributed to a writer named Jacetot : To teach is to cause to learn.” according to the conceptualization by ho howee (1970),the teacher is not a dispenser of knowledge nor a person in change of the education that goes on in the classroom. The teacher's role, in Howee view, is one of producing the climate, providing the resources, stimulating the student to explore, investigate and seek anwer, in a rich environment, the teacher becomes a guide and facilator than a director.
An equally intersting conceptualized of teaching is the one formula by Brown Thornston(1979) who delineated certain ditinction between taeching and educational information giving, these authors consider both instructional functions essential but different from one another. Tn their view, information giving may usually be performed quite adequetly and economically through planned use of books, records and tapes, film or computers. Teaching, on contribution of the instruction as motivation, assigner, interrogation clarifier, illumination, evaluator, and director of the intellectual exchange that leads to learning.
Also worthy of our consideration the view of teaching propounced by Silberman(1966) who states that teaching is both art and science.teaching is an art because it calls for the exercise of talent and creativity and teaching is a science for it involves a reptoire of teachniques, procedures and skills that can be systematically studied and described, and
The Nature of Teaching
The nature of teaching has been conceptualized and explained n countless ways, one conceptualized is that teaching is the act of providing activities that facilitate learning, another view runs likes this”Teaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what the teacher is doing in her classes, if the student are not learning something significant, she is not teaching, when the student fails, the teacher fails more. Quite similar to the two foregoing definitions is one attributed to a writer named Jacetot : To teach is to cause to learn.” according to the conceptualization by ho howee (1970),the teacher is not a dispenser of knowledge nor a person in change of the education that goes on in the classroom. The teacher's role, in Howee view, is one of producing the climate, providing the resources, stimulating the student to explore, investigate and seek anwer, in a rich environment, the teacher becomes a guide and facilator than a director.
An equally intersting conceptualized of teaching is the one formula by Brown Thornston(1979) who delineated certain ditinction between taeching and educational information giving, these authors consider both instructional functions essential but different from one another. Tn their view, information giving may usually be performed quite adequetly and economically through planned use of books, records and tapes, film or computers. Teaching, on contribution of the instruction as motivation, assigner, interrogation clarifier, illumination, evaluator, and director of the intellectual exchange that leads to learning.
Also worthy of our consideration the view of teaching propounced by Silberman(1966) who states that teaching is both art and science.teaching is an art because it calls for the exercise of talent and creativity and teaching is a science for it involves a reptoire of teachniques, procedures and skills that can be systematically studied and described, and