 Teaching is the act of imparting or providing knowledge or skills to another.

It
encompasses both instructions in procedures, a process to guiding pupils to the
information they will need, and challenging them to engage in thinking about concepts
they construct in their minds. All of these are needed in order to teach students to become
fully functioning individuals with good thinking capacities.
 Before we tackle the major terms, let’s begin by defining their various components of
teaching: principles, approaches, methods, and strategies.
 Principle is defined as a practical and comprehensive learning laws, which affirm the rule
of action.
 Approaches are ways of looking at teaching and learning. Underlying any language
teaching approach is a theoretical view of what language is, and of how it can be learnt.
An approach gives rise to methods, the way of teaching something, which use classroom
activities or techniques to help learner learn.
 Methods are series of related and progressive acts performed by a teacher and students to
achieve the desired objectives of the lesson. It is a well-planned step by step procedure
that is directed towards desired learning outcomes.
 Strategies are sets of decisions on what learning activities to achieve an objective. It’s an
overall or general design of how the lesson will be executed or delivered.
 From the definitions, it is clear to see that the principles, approaches, methods, and
strategies are not the same and therefore cannot be used interchangeably. While an
approach is informed by one’s view or perspective on issues, a strategy is a carefully
planned activities use to achieve a goal; a method becomes the procedure one adopts in
solving an issue whiles a technique becomes one’s own unique ways of solving a
situation at hand. These definitions, notwithstanding, depict a clear relationship between
the terms: teaching approaches provide a basis for the development of teaching methods,
teaching strategies also evolve to define the components of each teaching method and the
teaching techniques provide unique ways of going about a strategy. In other words, the
teaching approach becomes a universal set from which we get teaching methods.
Teaching methods also give birth to teaching strategies from which we are defined by
specific teaching techniques. Finally, learning principles are guides to make the learning
practical and meaningful.

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Approach g Strategy Principle Techniques
Method
Difference Constructivis Child- Small group
encourage Pair work,
s t and centred discussion,
contact discussions,
cognitivist method demonstration
between snowballing,
approach to , buzz groups,
students and collaborating
learning etc faculty, , etc
encourage
active
learning,
communicate
high
expectations,
respect
diverse
talents,
develop
reciprocity,
and give
prompt
feedback
or mentorin
g
Similaritie Objectivist Teacher- Lecture Make Lectures,
s approach to centred method, teaching talks,
learning method whole class both more conferences,
discussion, effective and symposium,
whole class more etc
presentations, efficient.
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