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For describing teaching as a profession, which of the following statements are most appropriate? a) Long or short duration of training has effect on making teaching skill repertoire representative b) A well defined performance standard facilitates professional acquisition c) Teaching means an activity aimed at influencing others d) An organised body of knowledge brings sophistication in a profession e) Teaching and learning are like selling-buying transactions Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

For describing teaching as a profession, which of the following statements are most appropriate? a) Long or short duration of training has effect on making teaching skill repertoire representative b) A well defined performance standard facilitates professional acquisition c) Teaching means an activity aimed at influencing others d) An organised body of knowledge brings sophistication in a profession e) Teaching and learning are like selling-buying transactions Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below: Correct Answer a, b and d only

Teaching is a process in which one individual teaches or instructs another individual. Teaching is considered as the act of imparting instructions to the learners in the classroom situation. a teacher is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue. Informally the role of the teacher may be taken on by anyone.

Teaching, Profession, and Professional

  • Teaching is a specialized application of knowledge, skills, and attributes designed to meet the educational need of the individual and society.
  • It helps in inculcating values and guide students to develop social relationships.
  • A profession is an occupation that needs specialized training and formal qualification before one starts to work.
  • A professional is one who has high personal standards and values.

Some of the important characteristics of teaching as professions are :

  • Skill-based on theoretical knowledge
  • Professional association
  • Work autonomy
  • Code of professional conduct or ethics
  • High status and rewards
  • Mobility Professionalism is the expertness characteristics of a professional person.

A professional teacher desires to locate effective communicative skills to achieve preferred educational goals. Like every profession, in teacher education also teacher educators should develop professional ethics and a code of ethics to correct themselves and get self-satisfaction by developing their conduct, behavior, and personality. Teachers and teacher educators develop professional ethics by imposing responsibility on themselves by showing obligation towards students, parents, society, higher authority, and profession.

Conclusion:

For describing teaching as a profession, the following statements are most appropriate:

  • The long or short duration of training has an effect on making teaching skill repertoire representative
  • A well-defined performance standard facilitates the professional acquisition
  • An organized body of knowledge brings sophistication to a profession

Note:

  • Teaching means an activity aimed at influencing others: teaching is imparting knowledge to develop the skills to think independently not to get influenced by other. 
  • Teaching and learning are like selling-buying transactions: Teaching and learning may be compared to selling and buying commodities. No one sells or buys in the teaching-learning process. There is a transaction of knowledge between teacher and learner. During the teaching-learning process, both teacher and learner learn simultaneously. Therefore, both the teacher and learner deliver and receive knowledge.

Related Questions

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Technical skill ____________ to the ability and knowledge to use the pedagogy, tools and techniques involved in the teaching and research of a specific subject. Ability in programming or software designing and operating a computer is, ___________ instance, a technical skill. There are two things a teacher should understand __________ transformational technical skills. In the first place, he must know __________ skill and what level of skill should be applied on a particular student. He should be ____________ enough with their potential to ask discerning questions. Secondly, a teacher must understand the role of each event organised and the transformational skill applied, and the inter-relationships between the events and skills. a computer is, ___________ instance, a technical skill.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second­hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his next­door neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective.
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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
Technical skill ____________ to the ability and knowledge to use the pedagogy, tools and techniques involved in the teaching and research of a specific subject. Ability in programming or software designing and operating a computer is, ___________ instance, a technical skill. There are two things a teacher should understand __________ transformational technical skills. In the first place, he must know __________ skill and what level of skill should be applied on a particular student. He should be ____________ enough with their potential to ask discerning questions. Secondly, a teacher must understand the role of each event organised and the transformational skill applied, and the inter-relationships between the events and skills. understand __________ transformational technical skills.
In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
Technical skill ____________ to the ability and knowledge to use the pedagogy, tools and techniques involved in the teaching and research of a specific subject. Ability in programming or software designing and operating a computer is, ___________ instance, a technical skill. There are two things a teacher should understand __________ transformational technical skills. In the first place, he must know __________ skill and what level of skill should be applied on a particular student. He should be ____________ enough with their potential to ask discerning questions. Secondly, a teacher must understand the role of each event organised and the transformational skill applied, and the inter-relationships between the events and skills. He should be ____________ enough with their