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CHAPTER 1 The nature of teaching: Process of providing learning Enable learners to acquire knowledge Becoming an Educator: A Challenge Teaching

- noblest and most important profession in the world. It is a vocation. Host of challenges Must minister to the needs of young people Must work under the watchful eye. Not only confined in the classroom Teaching to provide: Autonomy Exercise judgement Challenging works Clear goals Job security Public support and appreciation Sufficient resources Teaching as an Art and as a Science:

American psychologist whose work on animal behavior and learning process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay the scientific foundation for modern educational psychology.

Method of Teaching Organized, orderly, systematic procedure. Forms of Teaching 1. Authoritarian 2. Democratic Device and Tool of Teaching 1. Material 2. Non-material Principle of Teaching A rule consistently directing ones action teach, Anglo-Saxon to show, teach Functions of Aims and Objectives in Teaching 1.Attainment of the aims of a course 2.Selection of desirable subject matter

Thorndikes Major Law of Learning: a. Law of readiness b. Law of exercise/ law of disuse c. Law of effect *Edward Lee Thorndike

3.Selection of desirable student activities 4.Study of the method to be used and the selection of effective teaching devices.

5.Measuring the effectiveness of the learning and teaching activities. Learning Acquisition of knowledge of all kinds. Outcomes of Learning 1. Cognitive 2. Affective 3. Psychomotor Types of Learning 1. Cognitive learning 1. Associative learning 2. Problem solving learning 2. Attitudinal or affective learning 1. Aesthetic learning 2. Intellectual learning 3. Psychomotor learning 1. Bodily movement 2. Manipulative dexterity 4. Other kinds of learning 1. Congenital 2. Temporary 3. Permanent Laws of Learning Primary laws of learning 1. Law of instinct 2. Law of readiness 3. Law of exercise a. Law of recency

b. c. d.

Law of disuse Law of frequency Law of primacy

Secondary or subsidiary laws of learning 1. Trial and success or multiple responses 2. Mind set 3. Analogy 4. Effect 5. Gradual reaction change 6. Piece meal influence

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