CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The role of the teacher is that of technician or engineer. The teacher’s task is to focus the students’ attention, and provide exercises to help them develop language facility; however, to ensure their self-reliance, the teacher should only help the students as much as is strictly necessary.

Detailed explanation-2: -The teacher shows the learners a small red Cuisenaire rod and a bigger blue one and says ‘The blue one is bigger than the red one’. The learners repeat this. The teacher then substitutes the rods to produce other models, and finally encourages the learners to produce their own comparisons.

Detailed explanation-3: -Silent teaching is a teaching-without-talking technique in which a teacher uses examples instead of words to involve children.

Detailed explanation-4: -The learner is not a bench bound listener but an active contributor to the learning process. 2. Learning is facilitated by accompanying (mediating) physical objects. The Silent Way uses colorful charts and rods (cuisenaire rods) which are of varying length.