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Assignment 01: Overview of Instructional Studies in Context
Due date: 16 April 2021
Unique number for this assignment:762388
Purpose: This assignment gives you the opportunity to familiarise yourself with
the content of the study guide and textbook.
Link to module: This is an interim assessment. That means that we assume that
you have started reading your study material and that you are ready to
consolidate your new understanding of teaching and learning.
Instructions
The unique number for this assignment: 762388
Multiple choice questions: Choose the correct option for the questions below and
mark the corresponding number in your response. This assignment can be submitted
online via myUnisa
1. Teaching is
[1] how instruction manifests at schools or in classrooms
[2] any form of instruction
[3] can mean any form of learning
[4] to keep a class occupied for 30 min
state that “teaching is an activity which aims at
presenting certain (learning) content to somebody else in such a way that that
person learns something from it”. They add that teaching is “intentional,
dynamic, systematic and well founded”: teaching is intentional because it has an
educational aim, it is dynamic because
it should yield learning results, it is systematic because it is deliberately
planned and it is well founded because it is based on definite guidelines
(e.g. a curriculum document) and it is evaluated continuously.
Orlich, Harder, Callahan, Trevisan and Brown (2010) explain that teaching is
both a science and an art: an art because it requires a teacher to make
decisions, and a science because it requires knowledge of techniques.
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What is meant by teaching?
Teaching is the process of attending to people's needs, experiences and
feelings, and making specific interventions to help them learn particular
things...........................................................................................................They are
grouping
together teaching, learning and assessment – and adding in some other things
around the sort of outcomes they want to see
Teaching can be defined as engagement with learners to enable their
understanding and application of knowledge, concepts and processes.
.......................................................................................................To teach is to engage
, students in learning; thus teaching consists of getting students involved in the
active construction of knowledge.
2. A teacher is
[1] only employed at a school
[2] someone who has a formal qualification
[3] someone who teachers something to another person
[4] only an elderly person
Teacher: A professionally qualified person who undertakes to
teach in a formal
environment such as a school or college. In informal contexts, it
could refer to anyone who
teaches something to someone else.
Whats is a teacher?
A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a
person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence or virtue.
Informally the role
of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. when showing a colleague how
to perform a specific task
Who is a teacher in simple words?
A teacher is a person who helps people to learn. A teacher often works in a
classroom. There are many different kinds of teachers. Some teachers teach
young children in kindergarten or primary schools.
3. Characteristics of effective teachers
[1] knowledgeable
[2] attend school meetings
[3] participate in sports
[4] disorganised
4. The goal of teaching is to
teaching is to ensure that meaningful learning takes place. This
means that teaching is
more than instructing, and more than presenting lessons – teaching
involves all the teacher’
activities before, during and after lessons. Smith and Ragan
(1999) make the
following distinction between teaching and instruction: teaching is a