Demonstration strategy

What is demonstration strategy?

It is a teaching method that allows students to see the teacher activity engaged as a learner and a model rather than merely telling them what they need to know.

Purpose of demonstration

1. To stimulate interest in a particular topic:

2. To illustrate points efficiently:

3. To provide a change of pace:

4. Lack of equipment

5. Time constraint

6. Risky experiments 

Principles of an effective demonstration

·         Behaviors being demonstrated must be modeled   accurately.

·         Learners must be able to clearly perceive what is going on,

·         Appropriate during demonstration explanations and discussions can enhance the student’s performance.

Types of demonstration.

1.      Pure-demonstration.

2.      Demonstration -with –commentary.

3.      Participative demonstration.

   Procedure/ how

1.      Carefully plan the demonstration:

2.      Practice the demonstration:

3.      Develop an outline to guide the demonstration:

4.      Make sure everyone can see the demonstration:

5.      Introduce the demonstration to focus attention:

6.      Ask and encourage questioning:       

7.      Plan a follow up to the demonstration:         

Advantages of demonstration strategy

•  Seeing before doing [Benefit from seeing before having to do]
•  Task guidance [teacher will guided the procedure step by step]
•  Economy of supplies [Fewer supplies needed because not everyone needs to handle material]
•  Safety [Allows teacher to control potentially dangerous materials or machinery instead of students]
•  Helps people who learn well by modeling others [Those who learn by observing others demonstration]
•  Promotes self-confidence.
• Allows attention to be focused on specific details rather than general theories.
•  It makes the pupils familiar with the nature and use of apparatus.
•  In this method no time is wasted.
• Pupils are told beforehand [teacher informed all the students before conduct practical in lab]

Disadvantages of demonstration strategy

• Limited view [Students may not have an equal view of demonstration, so some may miss an aspect of the demonstration]

—  May not be appropriate for the different learning rates of the participants.

—  Teachers do not try for more experiments than those given in the text book prescribed.

—  Less Oral discussion.

• Not hand-on [Practical as required may not go hand in hand with demonstration work.]

—  Teacher preparedness [ample time should be set aside to practice the demonstration]

—  Resources.

Demonstration strategy mainly talks about seeing, hearing and doing. It’s the teaching with steps by steps. Practically showing how it is being done. It really depends upon the class strength which types of demonstration teacher should focus. Here the most important point that teacher should keep in mind is that demonstration should be clear and seen by everyone.