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Maxims of Teaching

Maxims/Principles of Teaching

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Maxims/Principles of Teaching

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  • From known to unknown: This maxim is based on the assumption that the student knows something & aims to increase his knowledge and widen his outlook & interpret all new knowledge in terms of the old.
  • From Simple to Complex: Start with simple concepts and gradually create interest and move to difficult concepts (in maths we start with basic signs and then teach borrowing or carry)
  • From Concrete to Abstract: Concrete things are solid things and they can be visualized but abstract things are only imaginative things – start with solar system and ask them to create models
  • From Analysis to Synthesis: Analysis means breaking a problem into its convenient parts while synthesis means grouping of these separated parts into one complete whole. Example for digestive system, we should first analyse the different parts of digestive system one by one and then gives the synthetic view of it.

Maxims/Principles of Teaching

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  • From Particular to General: While teaching, the teacher should first take particular statements and then based on those particular cases, generalization should be made. Suppose the teacher is teaching present continuous tense while Teaching English, he should first give a few examples and then based on those make them generalized examples in tense is used to denote an action
  • From Empirical to Rational: Empirical knowledge is based on observation and firsthand experience. It is particular concrete and simple. We can see, feel, and experience it on the other hand; rational is based on our arguments, and explanation. Water boils on teaching – first demonstrate and then explain concept of kinetic energy and convection currents
  • From Induction to Deduction: Induction is specific to general and deduction is general to specific - potassium reacts hydrogen, it gives potassium hydride, we come to the conclusion that all elements when reacts with hydrogen to form hydrides
  • From Psychological to Logical: Teacher must first understand interest and then have a logical approach to explain students - example a teacher tells the story of a poem to students when they are not interested in reading, with this a teacher proceeds from psychological to logical sequence.

Maxims/Principles of Teaching

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  1. From Actual to Representative: For teaching excellently, actual objects should be, shown to the children as far as possible. It gives them concrete learning which is more desirable. The learners are able to retain it in their minds for quite a longtime.
  2. From Whole to Part: In teaching, the teacher should try to acquaint the child with the whole lesson first and then the different portions of it may be analyzed and studied intensively.
  3. From Definite to Indefinite: Teacher should always start from definite because definiteness has its limited boundaries and jurisdiction than indefinite things. Definite rules of grammar and then explain letter and story writing
  4. From Near to Afar: Every child is able to learn well in the surroundings to which he belongs. So the child should be acquainted fully with his immediate environment. Gradually he may be taught about those things, which are far from his immediate environment. Able to understand city better than country.

Manishika