it tells the different purpose served by a demonstration during teaching.

1. School of Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching Skills
By- Arun Kumar Gupta
M.Sc. Food Science & Technology
Course- PGDTS-ED-T-03-S:
Teaching Techniques to Facilitate Learning
“Assignment Report on Demonstration- purpose served”

2. Demonstration
psychomotor
and cognitive
objectives.
Supporting
the learning
Introduce
a new skill
Integration
Development
Structure in 3 progressive steps

3. Principles
Learning
by doing
maxim is
followed.
Skills can
be
developed
by
limitation
The
perception
helps in
imitation.
Step by Step
•Stage by stage, explaining each action as the
operation proceeds. Ideal for hearing impaired
pupils because they can understand better as too
many ideas at the same times may confuse them.
Whole process
• The teacher demonstrates the full process from
the beginning to the end without interruption. It
enables the pupils to have a clear view of the
process.
Types of demonstrations

4. Purpose served by demonstration

5. Developing
thinking
through
demonstratio
ns-
•The demonstration can be used to stimulate thinking and questioning.
Motivation
•Maintain student interest in the ongoing subject or topic
•To make pupils think and develop a scientific approach to problems.
Reliability
•In research, it plays a significant role in producing result that can be compare with earlier reported
findings.
•It contributes to student motivation.
•It enhances translation of theory into practice.
Skills
• It offers opportunity to become proficient.
• It should be used to impart skills.
• It gives pupils the opportunity to see and hear the details related being taught.

6. Advantages and disadvantage
• It helps in involving various sense to make
learning permanent.
• Though, teacher behavior is autocratic, he
invites the cooperation of pupils in teaching
learning process.
• It develops interest in the learners and
motivates them for their active
participation.
• It helps in achieving psychomotor
objectives.
• Any simple or complex sill becomes easy to
understand.
• It can be used only for skills subjects.
• Only the attention of the learners is invited
towards the activity demonstrated. They are not
free to discuss about it.
• Due to poor economic conditions of the
government schools, there is scarcity of
audiovisual aids and equipment and the teachers
are not so creative to produce handmade models
for demonstration.
• There is a general lack of sincerity and diligence
among teachers who wish to complete the
syllabus or syllabi at the earliest without putting
sincere efforts.

7. References
• Iline, C. S. (2013) Impacts of the Demonstration Method in the Teaching and
Learning of Hearing Impaired Children. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social
Science (IOSR-JHSS), Volume 12, Issue 1.
• Childs, P. E. (2007). The purpose of chemical demonstrations Why do
demonstrations? Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Sciences, University of
Limerick.
• McClure N. C., Demonstrated the importance and significance of the subject
matter, Fairmont State University; Updated by Michael Theall, Youngstown State
University.