Document Type : Scientific - Research

Author

• Sana Safari

PhD Higher Education Management,Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

Higher education institutions confront many chances and challenges like increasing expectations on quality of higher education programs, economic and social conditions, technology changes, student population mobility and changeable paradigms in teaching and learning methods. These issues challenge the traditional methods of academic society. In this context, there is an obvious need for improvement of performance of faculty members. Engineering education emphasize on acquisition of knowledge rather than paying attention to the development of skills and attitudes. Improvement of faculty members performance not only needs expertise in special scientific field but also knowing other skills like learning psychology, evaluation methods, managing and organizing educational processes and so on. In this paper, based on research results, the following questions were answered: 1- what is the concept of teaching and learning? 2- What are the components of teaching – learning process? 3- How much is the significance of components in teaching – learning process?

Keywords

• Teaching - learning process
• Faculty Members
• academic education
• Quality
• performance