Direct,Purposeful Experiences

1. Prepared by:
JOLINA JERRERA
RAFFY RUBIO

2. What do direct, Purposeful Experiences
refers to?
• These are our concrete experiences and
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
generalization that give meaning and
order to our lives.
( Dale, 1969)

3. • Direct, purposeful experiences are first hand,
sensory experiences that serves as the
foundation of our learning.

4. Direct Activities:
Preparing a Meal

5. Making a Furniture

6. Doing a power point
presentation

7. PERFORMING An experiment

8. Delivering a speech

9. Taking a Trip

11. INDIRECT, PURPOSEFUL EXPERIENCES
• Are experience of other
people that we observe,
read or hear about.
• They are not our own self-
experiences but still
experiences in the sense that
we see, read and hear about
them.

12. INDIRECT ACTIVITIES :
Climbing a mountain is firsthand,
direct experience. Seeing it done
in films or reading about it is a
vicarious, substitute experience. It
is a clear, therefore , that we can
approach the world of reality
directly through the senses and
indirectly with reduced sensory
experience.

14. • …because the experiences are not purely
mechanical. They are not a matter of
going through the motion. These are not
“mere sensory excitation”. They are
experiences that are internalized in the
sense that these experiences involve the
asking of questions that have significance
in the life of the person undergoing the
direct experience

15. QUESTION:
• Why do we want our students to
have a direct experience in
conducting an experiment in the
laboratory?
• Where should these direct,
purposeful experiences lead us
to?

16. It is done in relation to a certain learning
objective.
Implies that these direct experiences must not
be the period or the end. We must be
brought to a higher plane. The higher plane
referred to here is the level of generalization
and abstraction.

18. 1. Give students opportunities
to learn by doing.

19. 2. Make use of real things as
instructional materials for as long as
we can.

20. 3. Help the students develop the five
senses to the full to heighten their
sensitivity to the world.

21. 4. Guide students so that they can draw
meaning from their firsthand
experiences.

23. THANK YOU
FOR WATCHING
and LISTENING