Lesson:7 Direct Purposeful Experiences

                                                     
                                     
                                     Direct
Purposeful Experience and Beyond



    After seeing instructional materials as a whole, let us single out direct, purposeful experiences as instructional materials. This lesson we learn on how can be effectively used for instruction. All these experiences point to the need to use, whenever we can, direct, purposeful experiences in the teaching-learning process. These direct, purposeful experience referred to a first hand experiences that make up the foundation of our learning. These are the 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.
                       These direct activities may be preparing meals, making a piece of  furniture, doing power point presentation, performing a laboratory experiment, delivering a speech, or taking a trip. It has described as purposeful because the experiences are not purely mechanical. They are not a matter of going through the motion. They are also described as purposeful because these experiences are undergone in relation to a purpose or learning. Out of the direct experience, thoughts or meanings following reflection must flow or run the risk of a lesson consisting of activity after another activity enjoyed by the learners who cannot make connection with the activities themselves. If budget on purchase of instructional materials is one of your worries, to use direct experiences as teaching material sets you free from worry.