INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY 3(2+1)

Lesson 5 : Classification Of Extension Teaching Methods

Classification of Extension Teaching Methods

The classification further explained in detail as follows

Extension Teaching Methods may be defined as the devices used to create situations in which communication can take place between the instructor and the learner or Teacher and student or Extension worker and the rural people etc.

Extension Teaching Methods are classified in U.S.A as According to Use and According to Form.

1. Classification According to use: They are classified as
1. Individual contacts
• Farm and home visits
• Office calls
• Telephone calls
• Personal letters
• Result demonstrations
2. Group contacts
• Method demonstration meetings
• Leader training meetings
• Lecture meetings
• Conferences and discussion meetings
• Meetings at result demonstration
• Tours
• Schools
• Miscellaneous meetings
3. Mass contacts
• Bulletins
• Leaflets
• News stories
• Circular letters
• Radio
• Television
• Exhibits
• Posters
2. ACCORDING TO FORM: Extension-teaching methods are also classified according to their forms, such as written, spoken & audio-visual.

According to Form

1. Written
• Bulletins
• Leaflets
• News articles
• personal letters
• circular letters
2. Spoken
• General and special meetings of all kinds
• Farm and home visits
• Office calls
• Telephone calls
• Radio
3. Visual or objective
• Result demonstrations
• Exhibits
• Posters
• Motion pictures
• Charts, slides and other visual aids
4. Spoken and visual
• Method demonstration meetings
• Meetings at result demonstrations
• Meetings involving motion pictures
• Charts and other visual aids
• Television

All these methods listed above have indirect influence on the learners. In addition to the conscious dissemination of information through the various methods listed above, the indirect (or natural) spread of information, resulting from specific activities and from the total teaching effort is very substantial. This is known as INDIRECT INFLUENCE.