1Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
2Professor and Head, Department of Community Medicine, GSL Medical College, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India
3Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Noble Medical College, Biratnagar, Nepal
4Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology, Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
5Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Gian Sagar Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India
*Corresponding author email id: dr.sushant.mishra@gmail.com
Online published on 16 January, 2019.
Teaching refers to a process which facilitates transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes fromexpert to student. It is an art as well as a skill. Various teaching learning strategies are available for facilitating learning in students. Both large group as well as small group teaching can be utilized for optimal results.
Large group teaching is a convenient and oldest way to transmit large amount of information to large number of students. However, large group teaching is primarily teacher centered and if non interactive, can hamper learning.
It is learner centered and keeps learner in active mode. The facilitators and students together prepare the lectures and the students are encouraged to interact on subject matter. Strengths of small group teaching are flexibility, interaction, reflexivity, engagement. Whether large group or small group teaching should be adopted depends on various factors like: number of students, domain addressed, infrastructure.
Domain addressed, Infrastructure, Large and Small Groups, Learning, Teaching
