Which learning strategy involves children teaching others what they have…
2024
Which learning strategy involves children teaching others what they have learned?
- A.
Conditioned learning
- B.
Rote learning
- C.
Expository teaching
- D.
Reciprocal teaching
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Correct answer: D
In pedagogy, instructional strategies differ in who holds the explaining role during a lesson: in some strategies the teacher retains that role, while in others it is deliberately handed over to the learners themselves. A family of peer-mediated strategies operationalises this hand-over through structured turn-taking and dialogue moves—predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarising—so that a learner consolidates her own understanding precisely by having to communicate it to a peer.
The stem asks for the strategy where children teach others what they themselves have learned. That description matches reciprocal teaching, in which students take turns leading a discussion for one another using exactly those moves, confirmed as the answer by the CTET official key for this item.
Conditioned learning forms a stimulus-response link through repeated pairing (as in classical or operant conditioning); it explains how a behaviour is acquired, not how understood material is passed on through peer explanation.
Rote learning is retention of information through repetition and memorisation; it concerns how information is stored, not how one learner communicates it to another.
Expository teaching keeps the explaining role with the teacher, who presents and organises the content directly for the class.