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Teaching Methods
where knowledge and experience are shared between the teacher and the learners and/or amongst the learners themselves.
Petty states the following advantages of giving students more control and responsibility:
encourages active and deep learning, rather than passive and superficial learning develops self-management and learning to learn process skills as well as delivering the learning product. discourages learned helplessness and learned dependency encourages the development of self-belief, self-reliance and autonomy. less stressful and more enjoyable for the teacher, who also gains the students respect for treating them with respect
Petty G (1998), Teaching Today, Thornes (page 119)
Some teaching methods are bad for achieving some learning outcomes
Some teaching methods are bad for some subject areas or domains of learning Some teaching methods are bad when used by some teachers
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No one method of teaching adults will suit every occasion. What matters is to choose a method or methods which best help adults achieve the task in hand. Experience indicates that a combination of methods is likely to be more effective than any one used singly and that a variety will help maintain peoples interest and motivation.
Daines J, Daines C & Graham B, (1998), Adult Learning Adult Teaching, University of Nottingham (page 19)