Nature and objectives of teaching

What teaching is

Teaching is a planned activity that helps learners learn. It is both an art and a science: it needs skill and creativity, and it is based on principles of how people learn. Good teaching is learner-centred, interactive, democratic and diagnostic.

Maxims of teaching

• From known to unknown.
• From simple to complex.
• From concrete to abstract.
• From particular to general.
• From whole to part (psychological) and part to whole (logical).

Objectives

Bloom’s taxonomy groups objectives into three domains: cognitive (thinking), affective (feelings and values) and psychomotor (physical skills).