Reading material for Lesson 2.1 Educational Psychology and Teaching
6. Teaching / Training
“Teaching/training is an instructional activity of delivering a particular skill or subject or something that someone tells you to do. It is aimed at bringing about meaningful
learning through a method that is morally and pedagogically acceptable. It involves a teacher/trainers, a learner, content in the form of knowledge, facts,
information and skill to be imparted. Teaching is considered as deliberate actions undertaken with the intention of facilitating learning”.
There are fundamentally two ways of understanding teaching/training. The first view is teaching/training as an instructor -centred activity (Fig 1) in which knowledge is transmitted from someone who has acquired that knowledge to novice learners.

The second view is teaching/training as a learner- centred activity (Fig 2) in which the instructor ensures that learning is made possible for novice learners and supports, guides, and encourages them in their active and independent creation of new knowledge and skills.
