Psychological Principles of Teaching

  Psychological principles teaching are those principles which make teaching stimulating and effective by taking into account the psychology of the child.

 

1.Principle of motivation or interests: It is said that half the battle is won if the students are truly motivated for the lesson. Motivation is the petrol that drives the mental engine. Motivation not only promotes but also facilitates learning. Motivation arouses the interest of the child and once he is genuinely interested, he become attentive and consequently learning becomes effective. Hence teacher should property motivate the students by creating interesting learning situations. Teaching should be linked with activities and purposes of life.

 

2.Principles of Sympathy and Kindness: Sympathetic attitude on the part of the teacher is an essential pre requisite of successful teaching successful teaching cannot take place in a situation that lacks sympathy and kindness with the interest and needs of students. The teacher should be good and kind to the students in order to teach them properly.

 

3.Principle of recreation: Successful teaching proves to be a source of creativeness and recreation. It awakens in the learners a desire to be creative and engages them in activity which is a source of pleasure to them.

 

4.Principle of readiness: If the pupils are not ready to learn, it is the duty of the teacher to make him ready for learning. Principle of readiness warns the teacher to take up only those tasks for teaching which are according to psychology of the pupils. i.e. their abilities, interests, attitudes, aspirations, maturation and developmental level.

 

5.Principle of feedback and reinforcement: A child learns quickly if he gets feedback and reinforcement in the form of appreciation of every step.

 

6.Principle of encouraging self learning: The teacher should inculcate the habit of self study, independent work and self learning among the students by providing proper opportunities and training to his students of this purpose.

 

7.Principle of change and rest: Monotony fatigue and lack of attention decrease the speed of learning change in stimulus and other types of changes in the contents, methods and teaching.