Kentucky School News and Commentary: Is Teaching a Science or an Art?

Kentucky School News and Commentary: Is Teaching a Science or an Art?
I agree that teaching is somewhere in between an art and a science but I disagree that it is neither one. I found it interesting how the author compares medicine and teaching at first then compared architecture and teaching at the end. Teaching is not an exact science but I do think that when scientific methods of education are applied to classroom settings that science is involved directly. I think teaching is a bit of an art. Being able to come up with creative ways to present context materials to students that captivate their attention and spark future learning is an art. In my opinion it takes a great deal of artistic ability to make interesting and effective lesson plans. The author of this article made several good points of what it takes to make a good teacher and the two main things were first to use science to make lesson plans and for materials. Secondly, to use the methods to evaluate the actual learning that resulted from the lesson. I found the presentation of the information interesting in this article but disagree with the authors statements that teaching is not a science nor an art. I think it is a lot of both and everything in between.