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MicroTeaching Skill of Illustrating With Examples

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ILLUSTRATING WITH EXAMPLES

  • The skill is defined as the art of judicious selection and proper presentation of suitable examples in order to generalize a concept, Idea or principle
  • Teacher uses a personal and specific example to illustrate the content of the topic.
  • A student can easily understand the concept while teacher teaches through different diagrams , explanations and some examples.
  • Few objectives of skill of illustrating with example -

To make a lesson interesting.

To relate known knowledge to unknown knowledge

To make complex things easy and interesting

To make the use of multiple senses or fronts of students

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COMPONENTS

  • .Formulating Simple Example.

A simple example is one which is related to the previous knowledge of pupils. It should be according to the age level,& grade level of students.

  • Formulating Relevant Example

An example is relevant to the concept, when the concept or the rule can be applied to it. This means to say that the rule is explained by the example .Irrelevant examples will create confusion.

  • Formulating Interesting Example

An example is interesting if it can arouse curiosity and interest of pupils. This can be judged by the attending behaviour of students. If the pupils keenly attend to the example, it is really interesting.

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  • Use of appropriate media for examples
  • Appropriateness of media refers to its suitability to age level, grade level, maturity and to the unit taught.
  • The nature of media, whether verbal or non verbal depends on the nature of concept which helps a teacher to select the suitable example during teaching-learning-process.

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  • Use of inductive and deductive approach for example

This involves the teacher giving examples relating to the concept or rule .The pupils on the basis of the examples given, formulate the rule(inductive approach). . After this the teacher asks the pupils to give examples to test whether the pupils have rightly understood the concept or not (deductive approach)

  • Appropriate number of examples
  • Understanding of concepts