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= Teaching vs. Training =

Similarities:
PRINCIPLES
 * Both require imagination.
 * Creativity on how to present the material. How to handle participants/ students. What will be the best way for the participants/students to learn?
 * Both require concentration and focus of the learner as facilitated by the teacher or trainer.
 * The students need to be tuned into the presentation in order to grasp the content.
 * Concentration needs to be held by the teacher or trainer in order to get through the lesson, and to provide the best environment where learning can take place.
 * Both require persistence of the learner to grasp principles, and of the teacher or trainer to facilitate comprehension.
 * Making sure all students understand all the content.
 * Persistence from instructor/trainer to keep going through the frustrating times (hard students, hard concepts to teach, too much to get through, etc.)
 * Both use the communication definition to instruct the students/participants.
 * Creating meaning through the process of exchanging symbols.

PHILOSOPHIES
 * Facilitate in gaining knowledge.
 * Instructor (either teacher or trainer) presents knowledge to students. As well as vice versa, students can allow the instructor to gain knowledge. It is a circular effect.
 * Further education.
 * The student is continuing their education by being present and participating in the training or teaching environment. Also, the instructor/trainer must continue to update their education to be the best presenter of the knowledge they can be.

CONCEPTS
 * Content can be the same.
 * For example, effective communication lesson, nonverbal lesson, listening lesson, conflict management lesson, etc.
 * Both are creative processes.
 * Meaning is constructed one symbol at a time.

PRACTICES
 * Some content delivery and some application of content is practiced in both teaching and training.
 * Usually facilitated by one person (or team) as the teacher or trainer with students or participants as the ones learning.
 * A variety of learning styles must be accommodated in either teaching or training - i.e. visual learners, auditory learners etc.

Differences:
PRINCIPLES
 * Teaching provides fundamental knowledge, training builds on current knowledge.
 * Teaching is for the mind, training is to create/shape habits.
 * Training is intense but limited in domain, teaching gives extensive knowledge within a limited domain (e.g., depth vs breadth).
 * Training makes people more effective at what they do. Teaching helps people understand what they do.

PHILOSOPHIES
 * Teaching is theory related, training is practice oriented.
 * However, both have research behind them - teaching is referenced to academic scholarship more, whereas training has research and scholarship behind it, but it focuses on implementing the content into daily uses.

CONCEPTS
 * Training is a subset of teaching.
 * When teaching an instructor will train an individual on, for example, the CORE model.
 * Training people how to use specific skills instead of teaching them a broad idea.
 * Teaching causes another to know. Training causes another to do.
 * Teaching is subject based. Training is action based.

PRACTICES
 * Training stresses skills and abilities. Teaching focuses on knowledge, educating, and discernment (wisdom).
 * Teacher gives grades. Trainer gets feedback.

**Summary**
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin
 * Telling (traditional teaching)
 * Teaching (training)
 * Involving (balance of both)

**The drawback of traditional teaching and training is that they each tend to exclude the other. Combining them makes for the most effective learning experience.**

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