TEACHING - LEARNING SPECIFICATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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 facultymembers. Engineering education emphasize on acquisition of knowledge rather thanpaying attention to the development of skills and attitudes. Improvement of facultymembers 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- whatis 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 – learningprocess?