Principles as used in

Teaching and Learning

Vangelin YontingBBTE ITE 3-2N

TeachingTeaching is the process of engaging

students in activities that will enable them to acquire the knowledge, skills, as well as worthwhile values and attitude.

It is a teacher’s job.

LearningLearning is the act of acquiring new, or

modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information.

Principles of Teaching and Learning

These principles are the chief guides to make teaching, and at the same time, learning effective and productive. Considering the changes in the teaching-learning situation of the present world, teachers must be guided with the sound principles of teaching formulated from carefully observed facts and objectively measured results.

Principles of Teaching Active Learning

The students must take some physical activities that can make them interested to learn. They must be mentally active most of the time and physically active some of the time. Many methods

There is no single correct way to teach a class. There are many good ways. The outworn “assign, study and recite” method is disappearing as quickly as the one room school.

Motivation Effective motivation arises from students’ interests,

needs, problems and expressed purposes. Although we humans learn only what we want to learn, it is nevertheless true that relating unknown to known interest can develop interest in the unfamiliar.

Well-balanced curriculumThe curriculum should serve two purposes:

a. To provide essential skills for the students to enable him to become a useful member of society

b. To satisfy the student’s personal and immediate needs

Individual DifferencesGood teaching recognizes individual differences.

The slow learning student, the average student and the bright student – the three common categories – have to be taught in different ways. Encouragement

Daily help to the students in judging their own progress characterizes good teaching Life-like Situations

Learners should be guided into realization that their studies and activities are part of life. It is a sad fact that many learners fail to see any relationship between the school and life situation.

Principles of Learning Learning is an experience which occurs inside

the learner and activated by the learner. Learning is the discovery of the personal

meaning and relevance of ideas. Learning (behavioral change) is a consequence

of experience. Learning is an evolutionary One of the richest resources for the learning is

the learner himself.