Teaching Aptitude Concept || Teaching's Characteristics || Models of Teaching

TEACHING APTITUDE

    • Teaching aptitude is the process of assessing applicants for the teaching profession based on their knowledge and skills.

    • It refers to the fundamental traits needed to become a good teacher. This comprises qualifications, intellect, attitude, and a variety of other characteristics that are expected of a good teacher.

    • Teaching entails contact between the teacher and the pupils. They participate to help each other. Both have their own goals, and the goal is to attain them.

Teaching is just preparing pupils to stand on their own two feet in society.

1. The deliberate guidance and administration of the learning process are referred to as teaching.

2. Teaching is the process of giving students with the opportunity to achieve generally lasting change via participation in experiences supplied by teachers.

3. Teaching is the skilful use of information, experience, and scientific principles with the goal of creating an atmosphere conducive to learning.

4. Teaching is a process in which the student, instructor, and other factors are structured in a systematic manner to achieve certain pre-set goals.

5. Teaching is an activity that teaches a kid the necessary information and abilities, as well as the preferred ways of life in society.

Teaching's Characteristics

1. The primary function of education is to give direction and training.

2. Teaching is a two-way street between the instructor and the pupils.

3. Teaching is the art of imparting knowledge to pupils in an efficient manner.

4. Teaching is a science that educates students on the facts and reasons of many topics.

5. Teaching is a never-ending process.

6. A teacher can only teach successfully if he is completely confident in his topic.

7. Teaching motivates pupils to study more.

8. Teaching is both formal and informal.

9. Teaching is the transmission of information to students. In teaching, the instructor communicates material in an engaging manner so that pupils may readily absorb it.

10. Teaching is a tool for assisting students in adjusting to society and its surroundings.

Teacher-Centred education

• In teacher-centred education, pupils focus solely on the teacher.

• During activities, students work alone, and cooperation is discouraged; you speak, and the pupils just listen.

Characteristics

• During instruction, teacher speaking outnumbers student talk.

• Whole-class training is given often; small-group or individual instruction is given less frequently.

• The instructor has a big say in how class time is spent.

• Teachers heavily rely on textbooks to drive curricular and instructional decisions.

• Typically, classroom furniture is organised in rows of desks or chairs facing a chalkboard, with a teacher's desk adjacent.

Learner-Centred education

    • Learner-Centred education entails a completely new way of looking at, thinking about, and acting on education. It focuses on three important qualities of the learner.

     • For starters, each learner is viewed as being distinct in significant ways. They each have distinct histories, situations, and starting places, as well as distinct strengths, difficulties, interests, and goals. All these distinct characteristics necessitate distinct responses from their learning system.

     • Second, each learner is viewed as having limitless potential, which will blossom at its own speed and in its own way. Each student is a sight to behold.

FEATURES

1. Learner-centred teaching involves students in the dirty, difficult task of learning.

2. Explicit skill instruction is part of learner-centred education.

3. Learner-centred teaching enables students to reflect on what and how they are learning.

4. Learner-centred education inspires students by allowing them to have some influence over the learning process.

5. Learner-centred instruction promotes cooperation.

Content-Based Instruction

    • The topic or subject matter is the emphasis of a CBI lesson. Students are engaged in learning something throughout the class.

     • This might be anything that piques their interest, from a serious science issue to their favourite pop celebrity or even a current news article or film.

     • They learn about this subject by utilising the language they are attempting to acquire as a tool for generating knowledge rather than their native language, and as a result, they develop their linguistic skill in the target language.

    • This is regarded to be a more natural technique of acquiring linguistic ability and matches more to how we learned our first language.

Content-Focused methods

     •   Multimedia presentations, exercises, and demonstrations are all part of the lessons.

Pros:

   • Allows for the incorporation of a range of formats, such as lectures and multimedia presentations.

Cons:

    •  Although it is well-suited for teaching mathematics, music, physical education, arts, and crafts, it is challenging to address individual student requirements in bigger classrooms.

Interactive/Participative Methods

• Encourage self-learning and assist students in developing critical thinking abilities and information retention, which leads to self-actualization.

Pros:

• This teaching method encourages pupils to ask questions and develops abilities in finding answers and solutions via investigation; it is great for science and comparable disciplines.

Cons:

• Rather than presenting information and measuring knowledge through memory, this challenge encourages teachers to connect with students and drive them toward inquiry. As a result, it's a little more difficult to quantify.

Best Teaching Style for Today's students

• Traditionally, teaching does not overreach with a smorgasbord of all-encompassing instructional techniques.

• Modern style, emphasising student-centred learning

• To establish a well-focused style based on their particular characteristics, strengths, and goals

• Necessitate several sorts of teachers, ranging from the analyst/organizer to the negotiator/consultant.

Consider the following factors when teachers choose the ideal teaching approach for their students:

1. Empty vessel

2. Active vs. passive

3. Knowledge vs. information

4. Interactive classrooms

5. Constructivist teaching methods

Empty vessel theory

The "Empty vessel" theory, which holds that the mind is basically empty and that the "professional" instructor is required.

Active vs. passive

Group-oriented interactive teaching techniques, facilitator and delegator, promote gifted and competitive pupils over passive youngsters with a wide range of learning capacities.

Knowledge vs. information

A variety of teaching methods, including the facilitator, delegator, demonstrator, and approaches, aids in the acquisition of in-depth knowledge and mastery of a particular subject by the largest possible audience.

Interactive classrooms

In-class laptops and iPads, videoconferencing, and podcasts all play an important part in teaching approaches. With technology in mind, it is critical that teachers assess their student's knowledge as they study.

Constructivist teaching methods

• Accept components of alternative teaching, such as modelling, mentoring, and testing via rubric scaffolding.

• To encourage student involvement and a hybrid approach to teaching.