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Unit 22: Meaning, Nature and Strategies of Teacher Controlled Instruction

motivational level of the students and introduce a competitive spirit among them. This Notes
results in better learning by them.
• It provides an opportunity to the students to apply their knowledge and understanding to
solve problems faced by them in real life.
• It is most suited for relieving emotional blocks of the students by providing them an
opportunity to express their attitudes, inner feelings, beliefs through role playing socio-
drama, etc.
• It provides training in inter-personal skills, such as empathising, teaching, managing, etc.
• This method brings out many latent personality uaits, qualities and capacities of the students
which they might not even be aware of. Thus, it paves the way [or cnhmcing self esteem
and confidence among the students.
Precautions in Organising Activity-based Instruction: The following precautions need to be taken
while resorting to activity-based instruction.
(i) Before using the activity-based method of instruction, you should ensure that the students
have the pre-requisi~ek nowledge and skills required in executing the activity. In case the
students lack the requisite knowledge and skills, they should be privided with them.
(ii) The success of activity-based instruction depends a great deal on the proper planning of the
activities, involving formulation of the objectives, laying down clear-cut procedure to
undertake activities and scoring procedures, organization of the class into groups, assigning
roles, directly implementing and evaluating the activities. It is, therefore, essential that you
should plan the activities properly before using them for instructional purposes. Resorting
to activity-based instruction without proper planning and adequate preparation does more
harm than good.
(iii) An important feature of activity-based insmction is learning by doing. Your role mainly is
to plan and organize the activity and guide the students. You should not express your
opinion in the matter due to sheer force of habit. Such an intervention normally deprives
students of the expected initiative. You should be careful not to intervene when the activity
is in progress.
The success of the activity-based insmction also depends upon the prior preparation made by the
students. You should ensure that the students have made adequate preparation before they carry
out the activities.

What precautions should be taken in organising activity based in struction?

Self Assessment
2. Multiple choice questions:
Choose the correct option
(i) The demonstration method is effective for developing skills in .................. .
(a) students (b) teacherss (c) principles (d) educators
(ii) Team teaching is a method of instruction in which .............. teachers organise to provide
instruction to a large group of students.
(a) one of more (b) two or more (c) three or more (d) four or more
(iii) Shaplin (1967) grouped team teaching into ....................... categories.
(a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four

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