The learner

Principles of Teaching 1

Principal elements that make the

teaching and learning possible
Teacher prime mover of the
educational wheel
Learner key participant in the
learning process
Conducive learning environment
Provides essential features and
ingredients that could make a
headway in guiding the teaching
learning process.

Fundamental equipment of the

learner
Cognitive faculties
Five senses
Instinct
Imagination
Memory
intellect

Appetitive faculties
Feelings and emotions
will

Five senses
Part of learners sentient body.
It is important that his/her senses
function normally.

instincts
Latin word instinctus means
impulse
This means that the learner has a
natural or inherent capacity or
tendency to respond to
environmental stimuli such as danger
signs for survival or self preservation
- manifested in his/her signs for
survival or self-preservation.

imagination
Ability to form a mental image of
something that is not perceived
through the senses.
Ability of the mind to build mental
scenes, objects or events.

memory
Cognitive faculty of retaining or
recalling past experience.
Memory work- basic in learning but,
of course, we do not encourage
memorizing without understanding

intellect
Another cognitive faculty of the
learner
By his /her intellect, the learner can
engage in cognitive processes as
forming ideas or concepts, reasoning
out and making judgment.

Appetitive Faculties
Feelings and emotions
Emotion on/off switch for learning
Positive feelings and emotions make the
teaching-learning process an exciting & a
joyful, fruitful affair.
Negative feelings make the same process
a burden.

Will
The learners will serves as guiding
force and the main integrating force
in his/her character.

Factors that contribute to the

differences among learners
5 distinguishing elements
Ability
Aptitude
Interests
Family and cultural background
Attitudes and values

Gardners Multiple intelligence

theory
With Howard Gardners theory on
multiple intelligences, the concept of
the learners intelligence has gone
beyond linguistic and mathematical
intelligences

Learning Styles

Environmental
Emotional
Sociological
Physiological
Psychological