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Nature, objectives, characteristics, and basic requirements for teaching	Factors that affect teaching
Methods of teaching	Characteristics of learners
Evolution of teaching systems	Teaching aids

What is Teaching Aptitude?

Teaching aptitude refers to a person’s natural capacity to teach. Furthermore, it can be characterised as a person’s ability to teach once they have received the requisite instruction. To become a good teacher, you must have teaching aptitude.

The Objective of Teaching

The major objective of teaching covers different types of intended learning outcomes.

1. Acquisition of knowledge
2. Development of Understanding
3. Development of Conceptual, intellectual and subject-specific skills
4. Development of values values

In general –

• To Change behaviour and conduct of student
• To improve the learning skills of students, including methodological, critical thinking, writing, creativity, hypothesis etc.
• Subject Knowledge
• To provide a social and efficient member of society

Nature and characteristic of Teaching

Teaching is a social and cultural process, which is planned in order to enable an individual to learn something in his life. We can describe the nature and characteristics of teaching in the following way:-

• Teaching is a complete social process- Teaching is undertaken for society and by society. With ever-changing social ideas, it is not possible to describe the exact and permanent nature of teaching.
• Teaching is giving information- Teaching tells students about the things they have to know and students cannot find out themselves. Communication of knowledge is an essential part of teaching.
• Teaching is an interactive process- Teaching is an interactive process between the student and the teaching sources, which is essential for the guidance, progress, and development of students.
• Teaching is a process of development and learning.
• Teaching causes a change in behaviour.
• Teaching is art as well as science.
• Teaching is face to face encounter.
• Teaching is observable, measurable and modifiable.
• Teaching is a skilled occupation:- Every successful teacher is expected to know the general methods of teaching-learning situations.
• Teaching facilitates learning
• Teaching is both a conscious and an unconscious process.
• Teaching is from memory level to reflective level.
• Teaching is a continuum of training, conditioning, instruction, and indoctrination.

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According to Some definitions, Teaching is the process of attending to people’s needs, experiences and feelings, and making specific interventions to help them learn particular things.
Interventions commonly take the form of questioning, listening, giving information, explaining some phenomenon, demonstrating a skill or process, testing understanding and capacity, and facilitating learning activities (such as note-taking, discussion, assignment writing, simulations and practice).
Difference between Training, Coaching, Teaching and Mentoring
Training, coaching, Teaching and Mentoring are similar words theses are used for the learning process in different ways:
Training :
Training is a technique frequently used in organizations or Institutions to build a person’s skills, knowledge and attitudes in order to meet the accepted standards by a specific industry. Training helps a person master a specific skill in a direct (or “hands-on”) interaction, use Training.
Coaching :
Coaching is usually task and performance-based. It helps the students or learners to learn more efficiently depending upon their ability. It is used in private instruction or coaching in a particular subject or skill.
Teaching :
It means providing formal education for students typically in educational institutes like schools, universities, colleges etc. increasing capability in a general suite of skills through direct interactions with Teaching.
Mentoring :
The role of the mentor is to build capability. The developmental mentor helps the learner discover their own wisdom by encouraging them to work towards career goals or develop self-reliance. Great mentors fill in blind spots, clarify motivations, and remove mental obstacles to success over longer-term interactions.

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1.1 Nature and Characteristics of Teaching

• Provide guidance and training
• Interaction between teacher and students.
• Teaching is the art to give knowledge to students in an effective way.
• Teaching is a science to educate facts and causes of a different topic of different subjects.
• Encourage students to learn more and more.
• Provide formal as well as informal education.
• Communication of information and knowledge to students.
• In teaching, the teacher imparts information in an interesting way so that can easily understand the information.
• Teaching is a tool to help students to adjust to society and the environment.

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Teacher has following objectives in Teaching Session.
(i) Development ability of Critical and Logical Thinking: Develop the ability of critical and logical thinking with process

• Identify the problems;
• Analyze the problems;
• Select relevant facts, principles etc.
• Establish relationships;
• Advance arguments in support of or against an issue;
• Draw inferences and conclusions;
• Verify the inferences

(ii) Development of Knowledge: The student acquires knowledge of various terms, concepts, events, ideals, problems personalities and principles related to the study.

• Recollection of facts, events, years and terms etc.
• Recognize facts, events, concepts, years etc.
• Read the information presented in different forms.
• Show information on maps, charts, diagrams etc.

(iii) Development of Understanding: Develop an understanding of terms, facts, events, years, principles etc. related to the study.

• Classify facts, events, terms, concepts etc.
• Compare and contrast the events, trends, concepts etc.
• Discriminate between the significant and the silly matters,
• illustrated events, and principles by citing examples,
• Identifying the relationship between causes and effects etc.
• Detect errors in the statement and rectify them,
• Arrange facts etc. in a particular known order, and
• Interpret the maps, charts etc. from the source of history.

(iv) Development of Attitudes: Students develop favourable attitudes with

• Show respect towards other people, ways of life, ideas etc.,
• Know about other religions and faiths;
• Establish friendships with other people;
• Practice the noble religions and their principles;
• Cooperate with others in social and historical activities;
• Appreciate cultural differences; and
• Believe in equality for man irrespective of caste, class, creed, color and religion.

(v) Create Interests in The Study: Developed Interests in the study of students with activities relating to

• Participate in historical drama and historical occasions;
• Visit places of historical interests, archaeological sites, museums and archives;
• Read historical documents, maps, charts etc.
• Play active roles in activities of the historical organizations and associations
• Write articles on related topics.
• Teach Case Study and Presentation of related topic.

(vi) Develop Practical Skills: Students develop practical skills with Draw historical maps, charts, diagrams, Preparing models, tools etc. which are helpful in the study and understanding of historical events.
(vii) Development of Adjustment: The manner of teaching should be such that it makes the pupils feel at home in the classroom. The teacher has to ensure that the learner is well adjusted to the environment which includes his classmates, schoolmates and other members of his society at large.
(viii) Achievement of Values: Moral, Cultural and Spiritual values of students are developed by the best teaching methodology. Which express emphatically points out that, “certain basic values as respect for others, responsibility, solidarity, creativity and integrity must be fostered in students”.
Emphasis should be given to educating good qualities like cooperation, goodwill, forgiveness, tolerance, honesty, patience etc. in order to encourage universal brotherhood and to prepare students worthy citizens of the country.
(ix) Make a Friendly Environment: One of the primary objectives of teaching is to make a friendly environment in the place of teaching which is helpful to remain focused on the teaching.

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