CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Silent Way is the name of a method of language teaching devised by Caleb Gattegno. It is based on the premise that the teacher should be silent as much as possible in the classroom but the learner should be encouraged to produce as much language as possible.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cuisenaire rods are used in the Silent Way, a teaching methodology associated with humanism. Example. Rods of one colour are used to represent verbs, another is added at the end to represent the past-ed form. In the classroom. Many uses have been found for rods in the classroom.

Detailed explanation-4: -The silent way was created by Caleb Gattegno whose name is well known for his interest of using color wooden sticks called cuisenaire rods. The main purpose of creating this method was to overcome that teachers talk more time than students.

Detailed explanation-5: -1. Learning is facilitated if the learner discovers or creates. The Silent way belongs to the tradition of teaching that favors hypothetical mode of teaching (as opposed to expository mode of teaching) in which the teacher and the learner work cooperatively to reach the educational desired goals.