Lesson 7

Direct, Purposeful
Experiences
and Beyond
Prepared by:
Niña Kristel Romano and Dynna Esmille
How do we learn special skills?
Like...
It is...
“Learning by Doing”

Because...
“ Experience is the Best Teacher”
 Direct , Purposeful Experiences
• These are our concrete and firsthand
experiences that make up the foundation
of learning.
• These are rich experiences that our
senses bring from which we construct the
ideas, the concepts, the generalizations
that give meaning and order to our lives.

• They are sensory experiences.

 Examples of Direct Activities
Preparing Meals Doing Power Point Presentation

Making a Piece of Performing a Lab Experiment

Furniture
Delivering a Speech Taking a Trip
 Indirect Experiences
• These are experiences of other people
that we observe, read or hear about.
• They are not our own experiences in the
sense that we see, read and hear about
them.
• Climbing a mountain is firsthand, seeing
it done in films or reading about it is a
vicarious, substitute experience.
 Direct Experiences as Purposeful
• It involves asking of questions that have
significance in life.
• These are undergone in relation to a
purpose-learning.
• These direct experiences must not be
the period or the end. We must be
brought to a higher plane referred as
the level of generalization & abstraction.
• According to John Dewey,
An ounce of experience is better than a
ton of theory...
- Students should be occupied with learning
for real reasons or ends that they themselves find
relevant, and not just with something that is to be
learned because it is imposed within schools.
Learning should also be connected to the outside
world.
 Implication to the Teaching-Learning
Process
• First, let us give our students opportunities
to learn by doing.
• Second, let us immerse our students in the
world of experience.
• Third, let us make use of real things and
instructional materials for as long as we
can.
• Fourth, let us help the students develop the
five senses to heighten their sensitivity to
the world.
• Fifth, let us guide our students so that
they can draw meaning from their
firsthand experiences and elevate their
level of thinking.
• Lastly, let us not be tempted to get
stuck to the concrete and fail to bring
up our students’ to the higher level of
thinking process.
Dale’s Cone of Experience
No Questions?
Thank you...
We’re Done!!!