1-INTRODUCTION TO PSTHE

• Education


  Process of facilitating learning, acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.
• Teaching


  Organized, purposeful, deliberate efforts to bring about desirable ends in an individual.
• Learning


  Integrated, ongoing process enabling individuals to meet specific aims, fulfill needs, and cope with life.
• Teacher


  One of the important elements in the teaching-learning process.
• Learner


  One of the important elements in the teaching-learning process.
• Classroom


  One of the important elements in the teaching-learning process.
• Curriculum


  One of the important elements in the teaching-learning process.
• Materials of instruction


  One of the important elements in the teaching-learning process.
• Administration


  One of the important elements in the teaching-learning process.
• Teachers' Qualities


  Professional and personal attributes related to mastery of subject, understanding of learners, teaching principles, and personality aspects.
• Teachers' Instructional Competencies


  Skills including teaching, guidance, management, and evaluation abilities.
• Personal and Social Competencies

  Observing ethics, setting examples, showing honesty, integrity, leadership, and cultural growth.
• The Teacher's Job


  Involves guiding the learning process, counseling, sponsoring activities, working with parents and the community, and professional responsibilities.
• The Ethics of the Teaching Profession

  Involves relationships with the state, students, associates, parents, school officials, non-teaching personnel, community, and the profession.
• Roles of Teachers


  Include manager, counselor, motivator, leader, model, public relations specialist, parent-surrogate, and facilitator.
• Materials of Instruction


  Various resources available to teachers and learners to facilitate instruction and learning, including audiovisual aids like 2-dimensional materials, 3-dimensional materials, audio-recording materials, and projected materials.
• Learning Process


  Comprises five phases: unfreezing, problem diagnosis, goal setting, new behavior, and refreezing, involving changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior.
• Characteristics of Learning


  Learning is developmental, interactive, and basic, influenced by stages of development, native capacities, previous experiences, verbal communication, perceptual discrimination, and habit learning.
• Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education

  Includes providing effective learning conditions, meeting learner needs, creating openness and trust, emphasizing individual uniqueness, seeking feedback, encouraging student-faculty contact, cooperation among students, active learning, prompt feedback, time on task, high expectations, and respecting diverse talents and learning styles.