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Levels of Teaching Learning

The document discusses memory level teaching, which involves rote memorization of facts with little critical thinking. Key aspects include passive learning, a teacher-centered approach, and the use of repetition, fear and rewards to motivate memorization for tests requiring short answers or reproduction of material. While it provides a foundation, the approach relies on mechanical memorization without ensuring good retention and understanding.

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Levels of Teaching Learning

The document discusses memory level teaching, which involves rote memorization of facts with little critical thinking. Key aspects include passive learning, a teacher-centered approach, and the use of repetition, fear and rewards to motivate memorization for tests requiring short answers or reproduction of material. While it provides a foundation, the approach relies on mechanical memorization without ensuring good retention and understanding.

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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

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