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: -For much of the student – teacher interaction, the teacher is silent. She is active and setting up situations to force awareness, listening attentively to students speech and silently working with them on their production through the use of non verbal gestures and the tools available.

Detailed explanation-3: -Active learning helps students to become ‘lifelong learners’ In an active learning approach, learning is not only about the content, but is also about the process. Active learning develops students’ autonomy and their ability to learn.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.