Definition of teaching given by various psychologists:

Definition of teaching given by various psychologists:

1.H.C. Morrison – Teaching is an intimate contact between a more mature personality and a less mature one which is designed to further the education of the latter.

2.Edmund Amidon - Teaching is defined as an interactive process, primarily involving classroom talk, which takes place between teacher and pupil and occurs during certain definable activities.

3.B.O. Smith – Teaching is a system of actions involving an agent, an end in view, and a situation including two sets of factors – those over which the agent has no control (class size, size of classroom, physical characteristics of pupil etc.) and those that he can modify (way of asking questions or ideas gleaned.)

4.T.F. Greens – Teaching is a task of a teacher, which is performed for the development of a child.

5.Farrant - Teaching is the process that facilitates learning.The teacher has an important role to play because he acts as catalyst, actively stimulating learning.

6.Teaching has been defined by Wells, G. (1982) as cluster of activities that are noted about  teachers such as explaining, deducing, questioning,motivating, taking attendance, keeping record of works,students‘ progress and students‘ background information.