2006-09-04 15:47:18 · 144 answers · asked by code_red 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
"Those that can't do - teach".
The knowledge of subject itself is probably considered science.
yahoo's dictionary that i use says:
science: The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
art: Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
kind of bogus, boring, definitions.
I think the more important underlying question is:
"what is the key of getting what's in my head into others and generate the same enthusiasm that I have for the subject matter?"
The ultimate goal of a teacher is to make disciples. People who perpetuate the discipline they are wishing to convey.
Take tennis for example. Someone invented the game. That someone taught the game. Now it is an never ending perpetual reality of disciples!
A funny thing...
You can take the same exact curriculum and have different teachers explain the same thing in infinitely different ways. However, only a few can make the subject interesting and appealing (if the subject in and of itself is in the beginning boring to the student). What separates them????
The sum of the matter is this!
It is an art! I believe it is an art that can be learned, like replicating a person making a cake. If you like the way a cake tastes, then copy the baker! Then teach someone else to make the same cake, and so on, and so on...
Does that make teaching a scientific art???
2006-09-04 16:09:09 · answer #1 · answered by extremelyradicalman 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Art and Science of Teaching
2006-09-04 15:50:30 · answer #2 · answered by Stars-Moon-Sun 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Being a student as well as a teacher I strongly believe that teaching is not a science infact its a great 'art'
Yes, sciences can be learned by simple learning but if we want to learn an art we have to practice it....
When I first time started teaching I had a feeling that I can do it easily as I have already learned all these things, but when I started teaching it was revealed to me that despite of knowing everything about the subject, I have to convey this to others not to mysaelf and thats the most difficult thing in teaching someone....
You can easily learn something yourself but to let other people learn is really an art, so teaching is infact an art...
2006-09-05 23:42:58 · answer #3 · answered by Ω Nookey™ 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The act of teaching is mostly an art, while the content taught is mostly science. We have all been subjected to instructors who knew the content, but were incompetent at teaching.
Just as likely, we have also been exposed to charming instructors who knew very little about the content they were teaching (think back to high school algebra and history teachers).
In a some courses of study, we meet teachers who truly know the content, and can motivate and teach at the same time. This situation was the least likely as I progressed thru K-12.
In college, I met all 3 types, -BUT- it seems that there are more safeguards to eliminate the least competent in ability and/or knowledge from college classrooms. As evidenced by today's college freshmen, there are no such safeguards in the K-12 classrooms.
2006-09-05 15:55:11 · answer #4 · answered by RetiredProf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not so sure you could call teaching a science or an art...Teaching is a skill and although you must learn sound techniques to instruct as to teach individuals, it is still a skill that somehow becomes honed to the subject one must teach. Be it mathematics, reading, language whatever the subject mater to be taught is learned and dispensed through such individuals that have a skill in dispensing that learned information. You might on that same level of thinking consider that teaching may also come to some individuals easier than others, making the task of teaching a valuable talent.
Without teachers and coaches all learned things would have left our society as we know it almost non-existent. So we owe the teachers in this world a great amount of credit for everything we enjoy in our lives today.
2006-09-06 04:39:55 · answer #5 · answered by sheila love 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teaching is an art, even when you are taking a science class.
Nevertheless there are people who will make an arts class a real science.
2006-09-05 19:07:23 · answer #6 · answered by Saadi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well take a look at what the two words mean:
Science: Discipline, knowledge and skill (art, can also be a definition of science)
Art: Skill, talent, knack, ability
Teachers have to posses both, science and art to be able to teach successfully. A good teacher has skill and talent to keep the students interested, an ability to interject their topics in a way that the student understands and they must posses the knowledge and discipline to perform their jobs.
2006-09-05 16:54:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a lot more like an art than a science. But it could be a bit of both. How much of which you need probably depends a lot of whether you are teaching courses like science or courses like art!
2006-09-05 16:43:40 · answer #8 · answered by Rvn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Teaching is neither an art or a Science. It is a Learned Skill.
2006-09-05 11:50:45 · answer #9 · answered by FreedomLover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The art of teaching is a science.
2006-09-05 05:48:04 · answer #10 · answered by lkraie 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋