To obtain a teaching apparatus with which a user can perform teaching without paying attention to the recording operation of position data while suppressing a capacity of the position data that is recorded to prevent an interference with peripheral devices.

The teaching apparatus 50 for teaching a motion path to a robot, includes: a receiving unit for receiving operation contents relative to an input unit that are operated when driving the robot; a position detecting unit for detecting a position of the robot; a control unit for controlling the position detecting unit to transmit the position data of the robot when the operation content relative to the input unit is switched to another content; and a storage unit for storing the position data transmitted from the position detecting unit.