Category: Notes: Teaching Aptitude

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Teaching aids assist students in learning. These aids consist of video, audio and hands-on tools to help involve the students and enhance the learning experience. Students tend to get more involved when learning if teaching aids are implemented into the curriculum. Hands-on aids, such as computers, maps and other tools that require some sort of […]

No two teachers are alike, and any teacher with classroom teaching experience will agree that their style of teaching is uniquely their own. An effective teaching style engages students in the learning process and helps them develop critical thinking skills. Traditional teaching styles have evolved with the advent of differentiated instruction, prompting teachers to adjust […]

There are different types of teaching methods which can be categorized into three broad types. These are teacher-centered methods, learner-centered methods, content-focused methods and interactive/participative methods. (a) INSTRUCTOR/TEACHER CENTERED METHODS Here the teacher casts himself/herself in the role of being a master of the subject matter. The teacher is looked upon by the learners as an expert […]

To know factor affecting teaching is so important because after analysis all factors which affecting teaching , teacher can improve himself and can become good teacher and create better citizen for country . If study teaching subjects , we find many factors which affecting teaching which can write in list of these factors. Teacher knowledge, […]

Analyzing learner characteristics is essential since this will help you to determine what strategies to use in actual instruction. Identifying the characteristics of learners entails gathering information on the learners’ cognitive, physiological, affective, and social characteristics (Smith & Ragan, 1999). Learner information can be obtained from surveys, interviews, observations, results of previous course performance, and […]

Steps of Teaching In order to make teaching an effective process one needs to follow certain steps. These steps are so important that these cannot be removed from the process of teaching. If a teacher deviates from these steps, the outcome of the teaching may be biased. 1. Planning Without a plan one can not […]

Characteristics of Teaching: “The aim of teaching is simple: it is to make student learning possible…To teach is to make an assumption about what and how the student learns; therefore, to teach well implies learning about students’ learning” (Ramsden, 1992). The task of the teacher in higher education has many dimensions: it involves the provision […]

Nature of Teaching: In its broadest sense, teaching is a process that facilitates learning. Teaching is the specialized application of knowledge, skills and attributes designed to provide unique service to meet the educational needs of the individual and of society. The choice of learning activities whereby the goals of education are realized in the school […]

Teaching methodology is a very important component of teacher education or instructor training within the realm of teaching as a profession. Before we venture further to look into the essentials of teaching methodology, it is necessary to define some key concepts. These concepts are teaching, learning and finally teaching methodology. The understanding of these concepts […]