Saturday, January 22, 2011

LB #10 Demonstration in Teaching

1. What does demonstration mean?
               Demonstration is showing how a thing is done and emphasizing of the salient merits, utility and efficiency of a concept, a method or a process or an attitude. 

2. How should demonstration be done to make it work? To make your demonstration work, you should planned and rehearsed your demonstration. Your materials and equipment should be ready.

LB #9 Teaching with Dramatized Experience

Dramatized experiences can range from the formal plays, pageants, to less formal tableau ,pantomine, puppets and role playing. Plays depict life, character or culture or a combination of all three.A pantomine is " the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only".A tableau is a picture like scene composed of people against a background, puppets, unlike the regular stage play, can present ideas with extreme simplicity.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

LB #8 Teaching with contrived experience.

What are contrived experiences? These are "edited" copies of reality and are used as substitutes for real things when it is not practical or not possible to bring or to do the real thing. The model of the atom,the globe, the planetarium , the simulated election process and the preserved specimen fall under contrived experiences.