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teaching Definition

teach·ing (c̸hiŋ)

noun

  1. the action of a person who teaches; profession of a teacher
  2. something taught; precept, doctrine, or instruction: usually used in pl.

teaching Synonyms

teaching

n.

pedagogy, instruction, schooling, normal training; see education 1, 3.

teaching Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • phonics: The original research was based on a comparison between two slightly different approaches to the teaching of phonics.
  • mathematics: The emphasis was on the teaching of mathematics in secondary schools but there are links relevant to the PhD crisis.

Converse of object

  • enhance: Each page is laid out in the same way with a range of features that enhance the teaching of handwriting.

Adjective modifier

  • biblical: What are we to say about the dating of these fossils in the light of biblical teaching?
  • undergraduate: The Division plays a major role in the organization and delivery of undergraduate teaching in Clinical Medicine for the undergraduate medical curriculum.
  • false: Secondly, the priests had " caused many to stumble " by their false teaching ( 2.8 ).
  • face-to-face: Open learning is inherently neither more nor less expensive than face-to-face teaching.
  • research-led: His interests cover curricula development, output-driven learning, research-led teaching and assessment strategy.
  • formal: They took up their posts in January 1992 in order to introduce the formal teaching of the language in schools.

Modifies a noun

  • assistant: In many schools recognition of the role of teaching assistants already exists.
  • profession: The status of the teaching profession has not been enhanced by teacher unions pretending otherwise.
  • method: Teaching methods Lectures 20 hours, tutorials 4 hours.
  • staff: Teacher members of the school's teaching staff, elected by the teachers.
  • material: The Met Office produces some excellent teaching materials on the weather.
  • hospital: Setting The Emergency Department of a large teaching hospital in South-East England.

Noun used with modifier

  • small-group: Instead, ReLaTe is focused particularly at small-group teaching and tutorials, where there is much more of a two-way interaction.
  • postgraduate: For those involved only in postgraduate teaching and supervision the contents of the course address few of the teaching situations they will face.
  • Buddhist: In this book he skilfully and poetically explains the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path and other basic Buddhist teachings.
  • language: On the surface, the lecture is not a teaching method that lends itself easily to language teaching.
  • mathematics: The 11-18 curriculum for secondary school mathematics teaching is very extensive and thus the program is demanding.
teaching Quotes

Nothing is more difficult than to determine what a child takes in, and does not take in, of its environment and its teaching. This fact is brought home to me by the hymns which I learned as a child, and never forgot. They mean more to me almost than the finest poetry, and they have for me a more permanent value, somehow or other.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

What matters is not what any individual thinks, but what is true. A teacher who does not equip his pupils with the rudimentary tools to discover this is substituting indoctrination for teaching.

—Peters, Richard Stanley

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

—Barzun,Jacques

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