Question

Which of the following is a main aspect of Heuristic method of teaching?

• A. The teacher should give right answer to save time, whenever there is a lag in learning.
• B. The teacher should provide only that much guidance as is rightly needed by the student.
• C. The teacher should create a problematic situation for each student.
• D. The teacher should not provide any types of guidance while learning proceeds

Answer 1

Answer:

B. The teacher should provide only that much guidance as is rightly needed by the student.

• Henry Edward Armstrong who introduced this method for teaching science, “Heuristic method is a method of teaching which involves our placing of children as far as possible in the attitude of a discoverer”.

• In this method, the student has to find out the answer to his/her own problem by unaided efforts.