Meaning of Behavioural Technology

Meaning Behavioural technology lay emphasis on the use of psychological principles in learning and teaching so that the behaviour of the teacher and pupils may be modified in accordance with the teaching objectives. as the present education is child-centred, every teacher should possess the knowledge of child- psychology i.e the age, standard, mental capacity or capability and individual variations etc. only than the teacher can acquire the desired behavioural changes by creating learning experiences in the pupils to achieve teaching objectives.
Thus, behavioural technology intends to expand, progress and develop in the field of behaviour and learning.

according to B.F Skinner, the calls of teaching an interaction which exchanges the content between teacher and pupils. everyone can divide teaching into two elements:
1.content and
2.communication.

the content can be presented before the students either by the teacher or through the programmed instructions at the three levels:
1.Memory
2.understanding and
3.Reflective.

different objectives, methods and techniques of presentation and evaluation are required to present the content at the three levels. the teacher is required to be active. he should provide complete freedom to the pupils for the expression of their ideas in order to bring about the changes in their behaviour. for successful teaching, a frequent interaction between the teacher and the pupils is necessary.

The communication of the contents or the behaviour of the pupil and the teacher may be of two types:
1.Verbal
2.non-verbal

in this system the question is asked by the teacher and responding to them by the pupils is the verbal behaviour. where as, the non-verbal behaviour is symbolic in which the teacher and the pupils contribute in the development of the lesson through their facial expressions, gestures, displaying, the body parts and any sort of signal.

A skilled teacher succeeds in making the education clear and alive through his non-verbal behaviour. in America some tools have been constructed in order to measured the verbal and non-verbal behaviour of the teacher nad the pupils with the numerical and qualitative methods. by gaining knowledge about pupils and teachers behaviour and after slight adjustment in their study methods, techniques and strategies, some desired modifications can be brought about in their behaviour.

While educational technology tells us how to desired changes in the pupils behaviours may be sought, it also requires the observation of teacher's classroom behaviour, its analysis, interpretation and technique of its development. everybody is not an inborn teacher. a handful inborn teacher teachers cannot educate all the pupils of any such democratic nation. hence, person who are not inborn teachers, are trained as teachers in training institutions. behavioural technology suggest how such desired teachers in order to develop teaching skills for bringing about the changes in the behaviour of the teacher.

Content of behavioural technology

1.Meaning and definition of the teacher-behaviuor
2.principles of the teacher-behaviour
3.observation methods of teacher-behaviour
4.Analysis of teacher-behaviour
5.Evaluation norms of teacher teacher-behaviour
6.Models of teacher-behaviour.
7.Various techniques of developing teacher-behaviour such as:

a. programmed instruction
b.T-Group training
c.interaction analysis techniques
d.simulated social skill teaching
e.Micro-teaching.

all these techniques are being used with much interest in the universities and schools to bring about following changes in the teacher-behaviour:

1. Teacher's behaviour is social and psychological.
2. Teacher's behaviour is observable.
3. Teacher's behaviour is measurable.
4. Teacher's behaviour is modifiable.
5.Teacher sre not inborn, they can also be produced.

characteristics of behavioural technology

1. its basic foundation of psychology.
2. Reinforcement and feedback are emphasised.
3. The teaching act are evaluated from the objective point of view.
4. its is more focused on psychomotor objectives.
5. it is based upon softeare approach.
6. it is more used in the teacher's training institutions.
7. its attention is focused upon individual differences of pupil-teachers.

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Meaning of Behavioural Technology