A teaching procedure involved in the clarification or explanation to the…

Teaching methods are classified by the primary channel through which a teacher conveys an idea to students -- verbal explanation, physical demonstration, narrative, or guided problem-solving. The Lecture Method is the procedure built around continuous, structured verbal explanation and clarification of a major idea, concept, or topic, delivered by the teacher to the class.

The stem describes a teaching procedure whose defining feature is the clarification or explanation of some major idea to students through connected speech. Teaching-methodology texts define the Lecture Method in this same way: the teacher verbally explains and clarifies the idea to the class.

Contrasting the remaining methods by what each is actually built around:

• Demonstration method centers on the teacher performing an action or process for students to observe and imitate -- showing, not explaining.

• Story telling method centers on narrating a sequence of events to build interest -- an engaging narrative, not systematic idea clarification.

• Problem solving method centers on students working through a problem under guidance to arrive at a solution -- inquiry-driven discovery, not direct verbal clarification.

The procedure described in the stem -- the teacher clarifying or explaining a major idea to students through verbal explanation -- is the Lecture Method.