In a classroom, for teaching various parts of a plant, a teacher instructs each student to bring a sample of the plant from home to the class. Later, she divides the students into small groups of five students and asks them to draw figures of the plant and label them. By doing so, which of the following benefits is she expecting? I. Developing social qualities like helping, sharing, and accepting responsibility. II. Pooling combined resources for successful completion of the task.
In a classroom, for teaching various parts of a plant, a teacher instructs each student to bring a sample of the plant from home to the class. Later, she divides the students into small groups of five students and asks them to draw figures of the plant and label them. By doing so, which of the following benefits is she expecting? I. Developing social qualities like helping, sharing, and accepting responsibility. II. Pooling combined resources for successful completion of the task. Correct Answer Both I and II
Learning by doing or through participation is considered an effective means for meaningful learning. Doing gives the real experience of solving real-life problems.
It is a way of combining thinking and reasoning with the practical act of manipulating objects for solving a problem.
Important Points
Undoubtedly it promotes self-learning and self-assessment which are the ultimate goal of the learning process. It promotes:
- Sharing of experience among each other;
- Pooling combined resources for successful completion of the task;
- Searching, debating, and coming out with innovative and alternative ways of solving problems
- Developing social qualities like helping, sharing, fellow feeling, and accepting responsibility;
- Developing personal qualities like self-confidence, self-esteem, courage to ask questions.
Hence, we conclude that all the above points are benefits of learning by doing.