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Nature of Teaching: Fundamental Concepts

Teaching Aptitude Syllabus


✓ Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding, and Reflective), Characteristics,
and basic requirements.
✓ Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional, and
Cognitive), Individual differences.
✓ Factors affecting teaching related to Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning
environment, and Institution.
✓ Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher-centred vs. Learner-centered methods; Off-line
vs. Online methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs, etc.).
✓ Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern, and ICT based.
✓ Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of Evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher
Education, Computer-based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems.
Concept & Characteristics
• Activity conducted by an experienced person to share experience with inexperienced person/s
• Provision of stimulus to the psychological & intellectual growth of a person by another person
• Concentrated & organized within a specific discipline
• Pre-planned behaviour
• Informed by learning principles & child development theories
• Complex, multi-faceted activity
• Moral activity
• Science as well as an art
• Dynamic & complex
• Continuous & life-long
• Interactive
Objectives:
• Acquaint students with content/subject-matter
• Shape behaviour in a desired direction
• Encourage students to learn & think for themselves
• Develop all-round personality
• Help students adjust & live harmoniously
Maxims of teaching:
1. From simple to complex
2. From known to unknown
3. From seen to unseen
4. From concrete to abstract
5. From whole to part
6. From particular to general
7. From indefinite to definite
8. From psychological to logical
9. From analysis to synthesis
10. From empirical to rational
11. Encouragement to self-study
Principles:
1. Principle of Interest – Students must be interested in the content presented by teacher
2. Principle of linking with life – subject-matter should be linked with real-life examples
3. Principle of definite aim – teaching objectives must be pre-determined & well-defined
4. Principle of selection & planning – selection of appropriate study materials used in teaching
5. Principle of division & revision- simplifying the topic into manageable units & regular revision
6. Principle of democratic dealings – teacher’s behavior toward students should be democratic
7. Principle of motivation – teacher should encourage & counsel students
8. Principle of recreating – different ways of presenting the same subject-matter to make it
interesting
9. Principle of individual differences – individual differences among students should be considered
10. Principle of remedial teaching – identification & eradication of learning difficulties
11. Principle of empathy – being able to consider students’ viewpoints, feelings & intentions
12. Principle of Creativity – creativity & originality of ideas should be encouraged
13. Principle of Reinforcement – promoting desirable behavior by giving rewards or withdrawing
punishment
14. Principle of training the senses – exercises for sharpening the senses should be conducted
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