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Skill of stimulus variation

This document discusses the skill of stimulus variation, which involves deliberately changing teaching behaviors and activities to maintain student attention. It describes several techniques for stimulus variation, including movement within the classroom, gestures, modulated voice, different interaction styles, pausing, focusing on key points, and encouraging physical participation from students. The objectives of stimulus variation are to enhance student thinking, involvement, understanding, liveliness, and minimize boredom. Specific examples provided include moving around the classroom, using body language, varying the volume and tone of voice, and allowing students to participate at the board.

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Skill of Stimulus Variation Dr.M.Deivam Assistant Professor Department of Education The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University) Gandhigram, Dindigul District, Tamil Nadu – 624 302
INTRODUCTION • The skill of stimulus variation involves deliberate change in attention drawing behavior of the teacher in order to secure and sustain students’ attention to what is being taught. • Teacher often use this skill for effective teaching. We must sustain the students attention, normally duration of student’s attention 10 to 15 minutes. So if we use stimulus variation skill, one can increase the attention of students.
Cont., • The variation may be introduced in several ways depending upon the teaching activity. For example, movement from one to another place, modulation in voice, change in interaction pattern etc we have to use appropriate teaching activity to sustain the student’s attention.
Objectives 1. To enhance the students capacity of thinking. 2. To enhance the active involvement of the students in the teaching. 3. To enable the students for understanding the concept. 4. To enhance liveliness in teaching. 5. To enhance continuous thinking of students for understanding concepts. 6. To grasp the attention of the students. 7. To minimize students mental fatigue and boredom.
Movement • The student teachers purposively move from one place to another. For example, taking chalk piece, writing on the blackboard and doing the demonstration or explaining the chart on diagram.
Gesture • Gesture comes under the non-verbal communication, this include nodding head, moving hand and indicating shapes and size. The moving object always arrest the human attention. So gesture is very important in stimulus variation.
Modulation in voice • When the teacher want to say very important points or show his/her emotional feelings. We have to use voice in modulation then and there, even if students are not listening in the class room when the teacher voice increase to say important point, then students automatically listen in the subject.
Interactional styles • We can say interaction, when two or more person communicates each other. In the class room following three types of interaction are possible. • Teacher to Class ( Teacher talks to class and vice versa ) • Teacher to pupil ( Teacher talks to pupil and vice versa ) • Pupil to pupil ( Pupil talks to pupils ) Above all three types of interaction must for sustain the student’s attention in class room.
Pausing This means “stop talking” by the teacher for a moment. When the teacher becomes silent during teaching, it at once draws the attention of the pupils with curiosity towards the teacher. • To emphasize an important point • To create suspense & arouse thinking • To provide time for students to think for something before they respond • To promote student participation by providing encouragement and opportunity to comment or question. • To draw attention by contrasting speech with silence • To give students time to make notes before continuing with the lecture or dictation. To show disapproval for student misbehavior.
Focusing • When the teacher want to highlight the important points through verbal focusing, while taking class says look at me, note this points or underline this points and listen to me etc. • The teacher writes important points on the blackboard, and highlights the point in color chalks. This way is increase the students attention in the class room.
Physical participation of pupils • Physical participation is very essential among student teachers, we may allow students to do demonstration, and allow the students to write the important points on the blackboard.
Don'ts 1. To move like pendulum. 2. To come forward & go backward unnecessary. 3. To seat on the table. 4. To touch head or nose unnecessarily. 5. To touch lips with the tongue. 6. To stand on the same place for long time. 7. Avoid board work. 8. Repetition of the same activity. 9. To move shoulders 10. To rotate neck again and again. 11. Touch the eyes 12. To move the eyebrow 13. To play with chalks 14. To tight the pant
Components 30 Seconds for each column 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Movement Gesture Modulation in voice Interactional styles Pausing Focusing Physical participation of pupils
Skill of stimulus variation