Concepts of

Teaching
Definition of Teaching
Teaching is one of the instruments of education and is a special function is to impart
understanding and skill. The main function of teaching is to make learning effective. The
learning process would get completed as a result of teaching.

Concept of Teaching
Teaching is a process in which one individual teaches or instruct another individual.
Teaching is considered as the act of imparting instructions to the learners in the classroom
situation. It is watching systematically.

❕ Various Concepts of Teaching

A. Teaching is a Complex Human Activity
B. Teaching is both a Science and an Art
C. Teaching as a system
D. Teaching is one of the most exalted forms of Social Service
E. Teaching is the responsibility of the teacher while learning is the responsibility of
the learners
F. Teaching providing the teachers with opportunities to make desirable changes in
the thinking, attitudes, and behaviour of their learners

1. Human interaction
– teaching is considered a system of actions and interactions; these are personal
and logical which directed toward learning.
2. Organizational Arrangement
– there are 4 phases of activities in teaching such as: curriculum planning phase;
an instructing phase; a measuring phase; and an evaluating phase.
 3. Material Resources
– the process of teaching includes: the selection and development of instructional
units; planning individual lessons; organizing materials for instructional
purposes; designing the methods to be used; classroom management; evaluation
of learner’s achievement; and reporting of learner’s grades (Chandler and Powell,
1970).

Teaching involves imparting a body systematized knowledge. It

affords the development of a level of consciousness of everything
about the world and the totality of facts about life. But more than the
knowledge about realities; teaching also taps the performance skills
of the learners to make them physically, intellectually, and socially
equipped despite varied interventions.

Teaching as a Science Teaching as an Art

Teaching as a science is primarily directed
Teaching as an art is more suited to satisfy
to inform the head. the soul.
Teaching as a science views the teacher as
Teaching as an art goes beyond the
an academician as well as craftsman. prescribed level of instruction. This facet
Teachers used to test to measure learningviews the teacher as an innovator, one
after successful teaching. who is willing to modify and to create new
forms of teaching.
Teaching as a science regard teaching as Teaching as an art looks at teaching as a
mechanical and routinized in order to dynamic and imaginative process.
make it more systematic and more
efficient.
Teaching as a science calls for skillful Teaching as an art makes teaching more
teaching. relevant and responsive to the learner’s
needs, interests, and abilities.
Teaching as a science aims at optimum Teaching is an art is destined to come out
efficiency devoid of creating something with something novel or innovative.
new.
When it emphasizes the cognitive and When the teacher can be able to touch the
psychological aspects of learning. lives of the learners to make them fully
human.
According to Navarro, et.al. (1988), teaching as a system requires an understanding of
the role of the more mature, experienced members of society in stimulating, directing,
managing, and guiding the immature and inexperienced members in their adjustments
to life.

Teaching is guided by the spirit of service. Service may be defined as the performance
of a task for the benefit of others given voluntarily, by request, or by fulfilling a social
need.

Teaching is always a two-way track. The stimulus is teaching and the response is
learning. According to Palma (1992), learning involves a process and brings about an
outcome.

In learner’s development, three important factors should be given consideration,

namely: objectives; learning activities; and evaluation. The interrelationships between
these three factors show that the focus of the teacher’s effort is the learner. The learner
is the core of the teaching-learning process that is aimed at the development of a mature
individual.