... from research carried out at the National Training Laboratories in Bethel Maine, USA. Taken from Geoffrey Petty (Teaching Today, A Teachers Guide page 123) Teaching Methods and Student Retention. Research attributes different retention rates to different learning or teaching methods, students retention rates from the following lesson types; Teaching / learning method. Retention Rate 1. Listening to a lecture 5% 2. Reading 10% 3. Audio Visual 20% 4. Demonstration 30% 5. Discussion Group 50% 6. Practice by Doing 75% 7. Teaching others or immediate use of learning 90% As you can see from this table of research findings the students at the moment are taught using, only, points 1 and 3 giving a possibility of only 25%, in effect the student has a 25% chance of remembering the lessons most important points. Using the lesson planned by us the session is given using all of the points from the chart and the student has ...

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