Usage of Memory Model of Teaching And Mnemonics in Teaching-Learning of Psychology at B.Ed. Level

B.Ed. is a course where the teachers of the core papers such as philosophy and psychology would find the student-teachers with a myriad of individual difference ranging from various academic backgrounds to differ- ent age groups. The stale traditional method would not meet the needs of this diverse group of learners. A participatory, novel and interesting method of teaching is the need of the hour. The present study has attempted to rejuvenate teaching- learning process by following memory model of teaching and applying mnemonics technique in its phases to reinforce the same. The present study used the memory model with mnemonics technique in the teaching of psychology paper at B.Ed. level. The objectives were i) To try out and find the applicability and the acceptability of the memory model among the student-teachers ii) To acquaint the students with mnemonics techniques and figure out the popularly used techniques for learning psychology iii) To measure the attitude of the student-teachers towards memory model of teaching and mne- monics techniques. Convenience sampling and experimental method with one-shot case study design were used. The study was conducted on 40 B.Ed. student-teachers who had selected English as their medium of instruction for a period of 1 month. The student-teachers responded and eagerly accepted the new method and came up with name mnemonics, word mnemonics, note organisation mnemonics etc. Everyone strongly agreed that the new method was participatory. 38 student-teachers strongly agreed that the method was interesting and useful. 36 student-teachers were willing to follow the same method when they become full-fledged teachers.