LECTURE METHOD
“simply means teaching through lecture”
- Teacher explains the matter in simple and understandable manner.
- The method is particularly used in the secondary classes and above.
- This method can be used to motivate students, to clarify, to review and to expand contents.
- Lecture method is for imparting authentic, systematic and effective information about some events and trends
- It gives the students training in listening
- It develops good audience habits
- It provides opportunities of correlating events and subjects
- It enables the linkage of previous knowledge with the new one
- Merits
- A well prepared and a well delivered lecture can make social studies interesting
- Lecture gives the teacher an opportunity to come into immediate contact with the pupils
- Lecture gives the pupils training in in listening and taking rapid notes
- Lecture saves time and energy
- Good lectures stimulate brighter student
- It facilitate rapport between the teacher and the taught
- It is more useful for brilliant students
- It helps the implementation of others
Demerits
- Makes students inactive
- There is a very little scope for pupil activity
- May include irrelevant material
- Discourage self-effort by the students
- Every teacher is not expert enough to deliver lecture
- The pupil lose opportunity to make self-study
- Lecture can soon result in monotony
- Lecturing is against the principle of ‘learning by doing’
- An average students may not be able to fix up their attention to a lecture of 40-45 minutes
