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Can someone please describe why teaching is an art, and why teaching is a science?

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This solution briefly validates using personal notes why teaching is both an art as well as a science.

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As you briefly describe why teaching is both an art as well as a science, I feel that it has the art edge for many reasons. In terms of conforming to an art, I believe that the field of teaching strongly requires lots of creativity and innovations as a teacher cultivates students' imaginative processes, using sensory lessons, multiple intelligences, etc.

It also involves fostering students' interpretations as well as their capacities for self-expression. Teachers, too, exhibit their aesthetic sides as they also creatively plan and execute their lessons. Like orators, I also see teachers as artists since they communicate through the artistic process of various instructional, ...

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