TEACHING AND LEARNING

The ultimate objective of any teaching is effective learning by the pupil. Strategies for teaching have, therefore, to be designed on the basis of relevant phases of the internal processes of learning. The phases are:


• Getting motivated

• Apprehending (the pupil coming fact to face with the key points)

• Acquisition

• Retention (transfer from short-term to long-term memory.

• Recall

• Generalization (applying the knowledge gained to new situations)

• Performance (the pupil demonstrates through performance)

• Feedback

The mental processes are influenced by factors such as the pupil’s questioning ability, and the availability of learning resources including teacher’s guidance. A teacher is an instrument that facilitate, promotes, hastens, and influences the activities in the internal processes in the pupil during learning.