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Focus on Learning

Objectives. • Teaching focuses on precise behavioral objectives,

emphasizing the acquisition of information. Training is also con-

cerned with precision but adds an emphasis on interpersonal

skills competencies (learning how to learn).

Content. • Teaching relates content to technical skills. Training adds

personal skills, such as decision making and critical thinking,

and some of the softer skills required in interpersonal relations,

management, and leadership.

Methodology. • Teaching is subject oriented, perhaps emphasizing

the principles toward the end of the list of sixteen learning prin-

ciples, and employs the lecture approach. Training, more person-

alized and geared to the s ...