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teaching
has definitions from the fields of education,work
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[ noun ] (work,education) the profession of a teacher
Synonyms Examples "he prepared for teaching while still in college" "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Teaching guides are included with each record . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Time_and_again in counseling and teaching , one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern_world are only_too painfully obvious . The same thing is also evidenced by the extreme `` culture Protestantism '' so often observed to characterize the preaching and teaching of the American churches . (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)It is in the quality of the teaching of all this that a question may arise . The local decorator who rushes in for a_few hours of teaching may but more likely may_not have these qualifications . |
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[ noun ] a doctrine that is taught
Synonyms Examples "the teaching of religion" "he believed all the Christian precepts" Used in print (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)Much effort has been expended in the sincere effort to apply the teaching and admonitions of religion . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (education) the activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill
Synonyms Examples "he received no formal education" "our instruction was carefully programmed" "good teaching is seldom rewarded" Used in print (Bern Dibner, "Oerstad and the Discovery of Electro...)Oldenburg 's contributions were soon exhausted and the boys had to turn_to a wider circle of the town 's learned , such_as the pastor , to supplement the simple teaching . |
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