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
