INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY 3(2+1)

Lesson 5 : Classification Of Extension Teaching Methods

Summary

• The extension-teaching methods are the tools & techniques used to create situations in which communication can take place between the rural people & the extension workers.
• Instructional or teaching methods classified into individual, group and mass methods
• Farm and home visit Farmer’s call, Personal letter, Adaptive or minikit trail, Farm clinic and Result demonstration come under Individual methods.
• Method demonstration, Group meeting, Small group training, Field day or Farmer’s day, Study tour come under Group method
• Farm publication, Mass meeting, Campaign, Exhibition, Newspaper, Radio and Television come under Mass method
• Another way of classifying extension teaching methods into According to use and According to form