Teaching Aptitude Online Course

This course Teaching Aptitude Online Course is prepared for NTA UGC NET Paper 1, CTET, HTET, KVS, NVS, and all other teaching-related exams.

Teaching Aptitude – UGC NET Paper 1 Online Course – Table of Contents

• Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.
• Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.
• Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.
• Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher-centred vs. Learner-centered methods; Off-line vs. Online methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
• Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.
• Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of Evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer-based testing, Innovations in Evaluation Systems.
• MCQs

DEFINITION OF TEACHING

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).

According to Bingham – “teaching aptitude is a specific ability, potentiality, interest, satisfaction and fitness in teaching profession”.The teaching aptitude means an interest in the teaching work orientation, implementing teaching principles and methods. Under the gamut of teaching aptitude, teaching skill occupies a major place.

Every student is a different entity from the viewpoint of his intelligence, aptitude and interest. Under a particular situation, different students may have different perceptions, actions and reactions to a given issue/subject.

Teaching is a social process in which teacher influences the behaviour of the less experienced pupil and helps him develop according to the needs of the society. Effecting coordination among them could be a very difficult task for a teacher and is put to test only on such occasions.

Teaching is an art and science as well. It is a professional activity involving teacher and student with a view to the development of the student. Teaching is a system of actions varied in form and related with content and pupil behavior under the prevailing physical and social conditions.

Smith (1947)” considered teaching as a tripolar process involving (i) agent or source producing learning which may be  human or material; (ii) a goal or target to be achieved; (iii) the intervening variables consisting of learning or teaching situation; involving human or physical conditions and instructional methods”.

Amidon (1967) ” Teaching as a process of interaction between the teacher and the taught as a cooperative enterprise, as a two-way traffic”. The manner of teaching should be such that it makes the pupils feel at home in his class room. The teacher has to ensure that the learner is well adjusted to the environment which includes his classmates, school mates and other members of his society at large.