Learning and Teaching Concepts

Conceptualization of Learning

• Learning is defined as relatively permanent changes in the potential of behavior that results from experience.
• Key characteristics of learning include disposition, capability, performance, and probabilities.

Teaching

• Teaching is a deliberate intervention that involves planning, organizing, and employing various capabilities to achieve learning goals.
• The teacher's task is to teach the curriculum and verify the effectiveness of the learning process.
• A good teacher does not guarantee the learning process, but aims to develop students' basics and discover and solve cognitive content problems.

Relationship between Learning and Teaching

• Teaching is one of the factors affecting the learning process.
• There is a causal relationship between teaching and learning.
• The question arises whether what is taught is what is learned, and what other factors affect learning.

Types of Learning

• Learning can be a process or a product.
• Types of learning include motor learning, verbal learning, conceptual learning, discriminatory learning, and problem-solving learning.
• Attitudes can also be learned.

The Learning Process

• The learning process involves motivation, goal, learner characteristics, environment, emotions, and metacognition.
• Factors that lead to learning include motivation, goal, learner characteristics, environment, and emotions.

How We Learn

• The senses act as information receptors.
• Brain and neuronal changes occur during the learning process.
• The quality of environmental influences and the social context also play a role in learning.