Teaching Processes

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Teaching Processes are those things undertaken by the teacher in order to promote and support learning by the students

Working from the basic pedagogy (to a greater or lesser extent) the teacher carries out the following processes. These may overlap

Establishing a working relationship: rapport & a sense of shared purposes and work together to

Achieve agreement on learning focus
Check on prior learning
Design Learning task (scaffold learning activities)
Undertake monitor and mediate activities & learning
Check & evaluate learning
- Learning achieved
- Learning processes used
- About self as learner
Identify opportunities for transference of learning

For these processes to be successful they must integrate successfully with the learning being attempted by the student.

In order for these teacher skills and teaching processes to be 'authentic' they must be meaningful to both teacher and learner as they engage in a collaborative endeavour that will result in learning.

Notions of Teaching and Learning

This leads to key notions of teaching and learning

(a) Teaching as

achieving a working relationship that enables the mediation
placing learning activities in the zone of proximal development (ZPD)
scaffolding learning activities and
mediating of learning experiences

(b) Learning as action learning made up of

learning activities
related to prior knowledge
generating meaningful experiences
subjected to insightful questioning
resulting in learning

Iterative and overlapping

The steps and processes involved in teaching and learning have the overwhelming characteristics of being iterative and overlapping. This is likely to be one reason why a systems approach is rarely adopted in relation to education.