Question

What are the advantages and disadvantages of project method?

Answer 1

Answer:

Advantages and Disadvantages of Project method of Teaching

Advantages

It helps in developing social norms and social values among the learners.

It provides invaluable opportunities for correlation of various elements of the subject matter and for transfer of training or learning.

It helps in growing knowledge very effectively as a results of their close cooperation on social participation in the spirit of democracy.

Disadvantages

The project cannot be planned for all subjects and whole subject matter cannot be taught by this strategy.

It is not economical from the point of view of time and cost.

It is very difficult for a teacher to plan or to execute the projects to the learners and supervise them.

Suggestions

This teaching strategy should not be used an independent teaching strategy but as a supplementary teaching technique.

Teacher should try to utilize the inexperience and waste projects to prepare models etc.

To avoid the problem of supervision, teacher may appoint a leader to each group of students.

Teacher should fix a time limit for each project