Enhancing Learning Through Stimulus Variation Skills
Discover the importance of stimulus variation skills in education, how it engages students, and enhances learning by maintaining attention through deliberate changes in teaching methods and stimuli. Learn about strategies like making students attend to instruction, varying questioning techniques, and more.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure - Francesco Petrarch
What is stimulus variation ? Stimulus refers to an agent, action, or condition that elicits, accelerates or rouses to physiological or psychological action, activity or response. Variation deals with the approach of changing such stimulus to bring variety into the classroom and avoid boredom. The skills of stimulus variation involves deliberate change in attention drawing behaviour of the teacher in order to secure and sustain student s attention to what is being taught.
Cont... It is the skill to stimulate the students, increase their active participation, enthusiasm and spirit of study. It is a way of enhancing children learning by helping them to remain attentive. A stimulus situation that changes in different ways is one of the most powerful influence in maintaining orienting activity by the students. A teacher must develop the skill to attract and hold the attention of students throughout the teaching.
Making students attend to Instruction Intensity Contrast Movement Instructional Materials Teacher s personal behaviour
Component of stimulus variation skill Teacher s movement Teacher s Gestures Changes in speech pattern Pausing
Cont... Change in Audio-Visual sequence Vary Methodology
Cont... Variation in questioning Ensure you ask questions do not directly answer the question, refer the question to other students. Develop listening skill. Let the student finish his/her question first so as to give you to prepare for suitable and right answer. Do not cut off student s question or explanation.
Cont... Focusing: In three ways: Verbal focusing ( look here , listen to me , note it carefully , this is very important ), Gesture focusing Verbal and gesture focusing
Cont... Varying of non-verbal gesture: Student movement: Variation in sensory channels:
Cont... Oral to visual; oral-visual switching: through this way Oral to visual Oral-oral-visual Visual-oral-visual
