This document discusses the characteristics of teaching and learning. It defines teaching as the interaction between teachers and students, where the teacher's role is to encourage learning. Effective teaching is defined as communicating and learning, while ineffective teaching is communicating without learning.
Some key characteristics of teaching mentioned are that it provides guidance, is an interactive and artistic process, is continuous, and should encourage students to learn and adjust to their social environment.
Learning is defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior resulting from experience. It occurs through direct practice and observation. Learning is a lifelong process that shapes our knowledge, language, habits and skills. Characteristics of learning mentioned are that it is universal, continuous, purposive, and based on experience