Demonstrative Teaching Style and its Study with respect to Perception of Secondary School Students in Geography

Globally, Geography is taught either as an independent subject or within an integrated framework. In the secondary school stage, geography is mainly taught as one of a group of subjects called social science or as part of earth science or natural science. It is an accepted fact that learning a subject depends to a great extent on the teachers’ teaching style and their teaching strategies. The demonstration method is the one in which the teacher shows the pupils how something is done by actually doing it. Demonstrations are used to show procedures and to explain techniques. This is a comparative study on the perception of 350 secondary school students on Demonstrative Teaching Style in Geography in relation to location, board and gender. The questionnaire was prepared and the methodology adopted is two sample t-test. The urban students are relatively more proactive in perceptional outcomes followed by the students enrolled under CISCE as far as demonstrative teaching style is concerned. Hence this study justifies the significance of demonstrative teaching style.