Relationship between teaching and learning

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Teaching
Learning
Characteristics of Learning
Similarities between Teaching and Learning

1. Relationship between Teaching and Learning Dr. Pooja Walia Assistant Professor Department of education Mizoram University

2. Meaning of Teaching Teaching is a process intended for learning by including a behavioural changes in the taught. It is an activity of facilitating learning. According to Smith “Teaching is an organized system of specific activities aimed to help the learners to learn something”.

3. Definition of Teaching “Teaching is intimate contact between a more mature personality and a less mature one which designed to further the education of the latter”. Morrison (1934). Edmund Amidon (1967) defined teaching as “an interactive process, primarily involving classroom talk which takes place between teacher and pupil and occurs during certain definable activities”.

4. Meaning of Learning Learning is a process of assimilating information with a resultant change in behaviour. Learning may be defined as the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes, skills & ways of thinking.

5. Definitions of Learning Crow & Crow: ‘Learning is acquisition of knowledge, habits and attitudes. It involves new ways of doing things in order to overcome obstacles or to adjust to new situations. It enables the person to satisfy interests to attain goals.’ Henry Smith: ‘Learning is the acquisition of new behavior or the strengthening or weakening of old behavior as a result of experience.’ Wood worth defines learning as- “Any activity can be called learning as far as it develops the individual (in any aspect, good or bad) & makes his behavior & experiences different from what would otherwise have been”.

6. The Learning Process

7. TYPES OF LEARNING There are two types of learning Formal Learning Informal Learning Formal learning is intentional in nature whilst informal learning is accidental or unintentional. Formal learning occurs in structured environment such as in classrooms whilst informal learning may happen anywhere such as outside the class, in corridor, at home, market, park etc.

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNING Learning is a process which is continuous & it never stops at any phase. It is a lifelong process hence learning starts from birth & ends only with the death of an individual. Hence we can say that learning proceeds from womb to tomb. E.g. when a child takes birth he first learns to cry for food, and at each phase of life at every step the child learns to walk, run, talk, write alphabets etc. Learning is the process which leads to mental growth of an individual. The growth takes place along with the learning. Basically when learning takes place the individual learns to adjust & adopt with the environment.

9. CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNING Learning is purposeful. Though learning takes place at every place & at every moment all the learning are not useful. Hence those learning which are useful & meaningful are learnt. Learning is active process. Learning by doing is the best part of learning e.g. it becomes easy for the science students to learn the concepts in science when they perform practical.

10. CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNING Learning takes place individually& as well as socially e.g. When a seminar or workshop is conducted, then all the members of the group learn to share their thoughts, each one learns something new from the other individual. Learning brings about the change in the behavior in individual e.g. a child is always taught values & manners, & due to this teachings, a child learns to respect their elders & teachers, learns to speak politely etc, which bring about the change in his behavior as the child grows.

11. Relationship between teaching and learning Teaching and learning are interconnected key players in achieving significant change regarding individuals’ holistic improvement. Both are complex process. Both are formal as well as Informal Process. Both are goal directed process. Both involve specific tasks. Both are occur in social context. Both are interactive process.

12. Both are complex process Teaching is a complex phenomenon as its nature is scientific as well as artistic. When we consider teaching as an art, we consider it loaded with emotions, feelings, values, beliefs and excitement and difficult to derive rules, principles or generalizations. When we consider teaching as science, then pedagogy is predictable to the extent that it can be observed and measured with some accuracy and research can be applied to the practice of teaching. Learning is also a complex phenomenon. It is personal to each child and is the process of making sense of and using new information and experiences. Children do this when they make connections between the experiences and knowledge they already have and new information they encounter.

13. Both are Formal as well as Informal Process Teaching and learning both are formal and informal process. Formal teaching is happened in structured classroom for acquiring knowledge and attaining some certificate or degree whilst informal teaching may happened outside the classroom such as home tuition or online teaching without any certificate . Formal learning is occurred in structured environment such as in classrooms whilst informal learning may happen anywhere such as outside the class, in corridor, at home, market, park etc.

14. Both need social context Teaching is a social process because it involves student, teacher and societal environment. The society and nature of human( student & teacher) is dynamic not static. Learning is individual and social as well. Learning is individualized means learner construct the knowledge through assimilation and accommodation by restructuring his schemas whilst learning as a social process and the origination of human intelligence in society or culture

15. …. First, through interaction with others, and then integrated into the individual’s mental structure. Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people ( interpsychological ) and then inside the child ( intrapsychological ). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals. (Vygotsky, 1978, p.57)

16. Both are Goal Oriented Process Teaching-learning is a process through which the teacher and learner, curriculum and other variables are organized in a systematic manner in order to attain some pre determined goals. Goal of Teaching: To bring desirable modification in the behaviour of the students. Goal of Learning: Harmonious Development of personality and skills

17. Task involved in both Teachers' Task during teaching Learners' Task during learning Planning the lesson Present the lesson evaluate Students' understanding Participation in activities planned by teacher Responding according to stimuli.

18. Interactive process Communication is a process to share ideas, view between two or more than two persons. Teaching and communication can not be separated. Teacher express his views on some topic by two types of communication Verbal Communication Non Verbal Communication Teaching- learning process is highly dominated by communication. In classroom communication teacher and learner/ group of learners play the role of sender and receiver vice versa.

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