Stimulus variation skill pdf

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1. STIMULUS -VARIATION
SKILL
By
Dr. SmitaSrivastava
Integral University, Lucknow

2. Stimulus
Something that stirs or urges to action
The reward was astimulusfor greater effort.
An influence that acts usually from outside the body to partly change
bodily activity (as by exciting a receptor or sense organ)
Light, heat, and sound are common physical stimuli.
In classroom chart , model, activity ,demonstration , voice modulation etc.
are the common stimuli used by a teacher.

3. Stimulus-Variation
The skillfulchange in the stimuli is known as the skill of stimulus variation.
Justto avoid boredom, it is the teacher’s skills to stimulate the students,
increase their active participation, enthusiasm and spirit of study.
Stimulus variation is a way of enhancing children learning by helping them
remain attentive.
It is a way of maintaining students ‘ attention’.
A teacher who is able to vary stimulus his/herlesson become effective as
there is high participation with learners and great achievements of the
lesson objectives.

4. Importance
Draw and maintain attention of students
Increase memory
Knowledge retention
Students’ participation
Effective learning
Complete information
Interactive session
Enhance academic achievement

5. Sub-skills
Pause
Voice modulation
Chart/model/specimen etc.
Facial expression/body gesture
Demonstration/activity
Variation in Questioning
Oral-Visual Switching
Variation in Interaction Style

6. MICRO-PLAN ( SAMPLE)
Sl.
N
o.
Pupil-teacher activity Students
response
1Tell the name of any unicellular organism? Its Amoeba
2(chart showing fission of Amoeba) Students see
and listen
carefully

7. MICRO-PLAN-II
Sl. Pupil-teacher’s activity Students’ response
3 What do you see in this chart Amoeba fission
4 Asyou can see that organism like
amoeba splits in two cells during division
and it can take any place.
Students listen carefully
5 After replicating its genetic material
through mitotic division, the cell divides
into two equal-sized daughter cells. In this
method, two similar individuals are
produced from a single parent cell.
( with proper voice modulation& pause)
Students listen carefully
6 This process iscalled binary fission. Students listen carefully

8. Reference/More readings
http://www.vkmaheshwari.com/WP/?p=212#:~:text=The%20skill%20of%20sti
mulus%20variation%20involves%20deliberate%20change%20in%20attention,
changing
Picture from Bing
THANKS