Differences between teaching methods and principles

b)            DELIBERATE LEARNING: - Takes place when the trainee is presented with some new knowledge, information, skill and technique and a “deliberate” or conscious effort is made to learn and reproduced it when needed. It is this type of learning, which mostly concerns the trade or craft training.

The principle sub-divisions of this type are:-

A) ROTE LEARNING – It is a process of memorizing by verbal or physical repetition.

Advantages: - Once learned by this method, the material rarely forgotten completely.

Disadvantages: - Subject to boredom and fatigue while learning – interest reduces.

These disadvantages must be avoided by:                                                                                    

1) Severely restricting the period of rote learning.

2) Planning to give variation to the training programme.

FEATURES:-

a) Early performance must be completely accurate in every step, otherwise, the result will be useless.

b) Frequent and accurate repetition is necessary for a practical period.

c) Un-necessary fatigue and boredom must be avoided.

B) MECHANICAL LEARNING: - Known as “Learning by the selection of the successful variant” or “trial and error learning”. It takes by the successive application of various solutions to a problem until the correct answer is found.