Levels of teaching learning

Unit II

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

Least thoughtful
 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
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
Memory level of teaching
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

 Nature of motivation

• Extrinsic motivation

• Fear of punishment

• Favour of the teacher

 Methods employed

• Teacher centred or subject centred

• Lecture method

• Narration method
 Testing devices used

• Short answer

• Objective type

• Reproduction of the memorised material

 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
 Demerits

• Carried out at lowest level of students

• Learning by mechanical memorization

• No guarantee of good retention

• Teacher dominance