Levels of teaching learning

Unit II

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Least thoughtful

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Phases of memory
1) Learning: learning of some
facts.
2) Retention: to make the
contents in the minds.
3)Recall: the learnt material
experiences when brought to
conscious mind
4) Recognition

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

Memory level of teaching
• Least thoughtful behaviour

• Factual information before the learner

• Least involvement of thinking and reasoning

• Memorisation of the facts or associations

• Reproduce when needed

• Rote learning
Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU
Memory level of teaching

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

Memory level of teaching

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

Memory level of teaching

• Dates and sequence of the historical events

• Names and number of bones and muscles in the

human body

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Underlying psychological
theories

• Theory of mental faculty or mental discipline

Faculty of memorisation through exercise,

repetition and practice

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Underlying psychological
theories

• Herbartian theory of apperception

Factual information through mechanical

memorization

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Underlying psychological
theories

• Thorndike’s connectionism

Mechanical establishment of S-R connections

Low of exercise

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Underlying psychological
theories
• Theory of conditioning

Classical and Operant conditioning

Task of habit formation through repetition of

the association between stimuli and response

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Objectives

• Acquisition of presented facts through rote

learning

• Retention and reproduction

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

Nature of subject matter

• Systematic manner

• Fixed order for proper retention and easy

recall

• Association with previous knowledge

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Role of teacher

• Dominant and authoritarian

• Exercise for repetition

• Too much teacher centred

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Role of learner

• Passive role

• Mechanical memorization

• Little scope for interaction

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Nature of motivation

• Extrinsic motivation

• Fear of punishment

• Favour of the teacher

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Methods employed

• Teacher centred or subject centred

• Lecture method

• Narration method

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Testing devices used

• Short answer

• Objective type

• Reproduction of the memorised material

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Merits

• Teaching small children

• Provide solid base for higher structure of

teaching learning at advance level

• Systematic and well connected pieces of

information with minimum duration of time

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU

 Demerits

• Carried out at lowest level of students

• Learning by mechanical memorization

• No guarantee of good retention

• Teacher dominance

Dr. Nisanth.P.M, Assistant Professor, Dept of Education, RGU