CHAPTER 10: DEMONSTRATIONS IN TEACHING

REFLECTIONS

As a teaching technique, a demonstration is a valuable alternative to getting students to 'learn by doing'. While learning by doing is ideal in subjects like science, adopting this approach is not always possible. Just like in mathematics, this type of teaching technique is not applicable in mathematics because we cannot dramatize numbers though there are scenarios that have an involvement of money but not all the time specially applying it in higher mathematics such as Calculus.

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CHAPTER 9: TEACHING WITH DRAMATIZED EXPERIENCES

 REFLECTIONS

If our teaching is dramatic, our students get attracted, interested and affected. If they are affected and moved by what we taught, we will most likely leave an impact on them.

In this chapter there are lots advantages of teaching with dramatized experiences, but there are also negative effects which are as follows:

Advantages

•      Energizing activity / fun to do 
•     Allows participants to contribute actively (even the quieter ones)
•     It is Time efficient 
•     Experiential learning is more powerful than instructions.
•     It delivers complex concepts in a simple manner 
•    Needs little preparation for the teacher/facilitator (unless you want to print out role descriptors)

 Disadvantages

• Participants may be too shy and reluctant
• Can be threatening to some 
• It can become ‘too much fun’ and disrupt the task 
• Participants can get too involved and loose objectivity 
• Participants can overact and show off The observers may not observe well or take notes
• The observers may take ‘sides’ based on their preconceptions 

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