Question Bank - Child Development and Pedagogy

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Rekha provided a map of India with landforms and rivers to her students and encouraged them to make initiative guesses about the location of major cities in it. Her approach to teaching-learning is-

A.
Rote memorisation
B.
Discovery learning
C.
Direct instruction
D.
Expository teaching

Solution:

Discovery learning is the type of learning in which students can learn by finding the correct approach for the problem through their cognition.Example: Find the river Ganga on the map.Discovery learning helps students to think critically.Discovery learning helps to make commands of the problem conceptually.Discovery learning improves the skills of the students and makes their thinking divergent.It de-emphasis rote learning or learning based on the memorisation.Discovery learning is mostly based on activities, experiments, and critical thinking based which also encourages the interest in learning in students.No direct instruction is given to the students by the teachers in discovery learning, students can learn by making guesses or concepts through their cognition.So option (2) is the correct answer.Additional Information Rote memorization is defined as memorization by repetition, often without an understanding of the reasoning or relationships involved in the material that is learned.Direct instruction is where teachers use explicit teaching techniques to teach a specific skill to their students. This type of instruction is teacher-directed, where a teacher typically stands at the front of a room and presents information.??Example: Announcement by the teacher.Expository teaching is a lecture presentation or telling strategy used during instruction. The teacher is in control of presenting the subject matter and directs the students through the lesson.

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