Identify the characteristics and basic requirements of reflective level teaching in the following list of statements: (a) Teacher presents the information and ideas systematically to help recall them when needed (b) Teacher conducts drills and exercises to fix up the ideas in the minds of students. (c) Issues are raised and discussed with a view to sift the potential rational solution of problems. (d) Teacher asks students to give examples and parallel ideas. (e) Academic sessions are conducted in a dialogic mode to explore and explain the basis of arguments. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Identify the characteristics and basic requirements of reflective level teaching in the following list of statements: (a) Teacher presents the information and ideas systematically to help recall them when needed (b) Teacher conducts drills and exercises to fix up the ideas in the minds of students. (c) Issues are raised and discussed with a view to sift the potential rational solution of problems. (d) Teacher asks students to give examples and parallel ideas. (e) Academic sessions are conducted in a dialogic mode to explore and explain the basis of arguments. Choose the correct answer from the options given below: Correct Answer (c) and (e) only

Reflective level of teaching.

  • Definition: Morris L. Bigge defines reflection as, “careful, critical examination of an idea or supposed article of knowledge in the light of testing evidence which supports it and the further conclusions towards which it points. 
  • Reflective level teaching does not depend upon the memorization, understanding of concepts, and their application only; it demands the use of higher mental processes such as reasoning, thinking, analyzing concepts, imagination, ideas and thoughts; and other bodies of knowledge critically, finding out the facts.
  • Reflective level teaching-learning comprises the highest level of learning by the learner to develop new insight to solve problems, to explore the field of knowledge, to discover, to test, and retest the achieved facts, to understand and present generalizations in the light of the new evidence.
  • It also means thinking deeply about something. The reflective level of teaching is considered to be the highest level at which teaching is carried out. It is highly thoughtful and useful. A student can attain this level only after going through memory level and understanding level
  • This level is also known as the introspective level. Reflecting on something means giving careful thought to something over a period of time
  • Teaching at the reflective level enables the students to solve the real problems of life.
  • At this level, the student is made to face a real problematic situation. The student by understanding the situation and using his critical abilities succeeds in solving the problem.
  • At this level, the emphasis is laid on identifying the problem, defining it, and finding a solution to it. The student’s original thinking and creative-abilities develop at this level.

  1. The teaching at this level is not teacher-centered or subject-centered, it is leaner-centered.
  2. There is an interaction between the teacher and the taught at the reflective level teaching.
  3. At this level, teaching is highly thoughtful and useful than teaching at the memory or understanding level.
  4. The process of teaching and learning at this level is dynamic and unique.
  5. The students are provided with problematic situations and they need to follow certain procedures to solve the problems independently.
  6. Since the reflective level of teaching is not teacher-centered learning, so, most of the activities are in the form of interaction between the teacher and the learner.

​​​​Hence, option (3) is correct.

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