MAXIMS OF TEACHING
1. Known to unknown This maxim is based on the assumption that the student knows something. We are to increase his knowledge and widen his outlook. We have to interpret all new knowledge’ in terms of the old. It is said that old knowledge serves as a hook on which the new one can be hung. Known is trustworthy and unknown cannot be trusted. So while teaching we should proceed from known and go towards unknown. For example, while teaching any lesson, the teacher can link the previous experiences of the child with the new lesson. 2. Simple to complex Class-room teaching is formal where the teacher tries to teach and the students try to learn things. In this process of teaching-learning, the teacher should see that simple things are presented first to the students. That way they will start taking interest. Once they become interested, thou gradually complex type of things can also be learnt by them. By learning simple things, they feel encouraged and they also gain conf...