Understanding the theory of teaching and learning

Understanding the theory of teaching. How does education work for students and teachers as a bipolar process with both being two ends and how the aim of a teacher is to make it into a unipolar process. What are maxims of teaching.

1. Understanding the theory of teaching

2. Education as a process Bi-polar Two ends: Educator and Student Factors which affect education – Teaching and Learning Cognition – Prerequisites/prior knowledge Behaviour Curriculum Learning Styles

3. What constitutes teaching? Its an art and a science Teachers require: Knowledge and the process of teaching (In theory) Real Classrooms: Management of the class, experience, psychological realisation of the needs of the students

4. An aid to the teachers: Maxims of Teaching What is a maxim? A Guideline Procedure/Rules for making teaching more effective Benefits: Simplifies the teaching process Facilitates purposeful teaching Helps understanding Develops creativity Helps learning by doing Develops critical thinking, analysis and synthesis in students

5. Known to Unknown Seen to Unseen Simple to Complex Particular to General Indefinite to Definite Concrete to Abstract Whole to Part Psychological to Logical Analysis to Synthesis Inductive to Deductive Empirical to Rational Training of Senses