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Teaching method is a way to put theory in practice with the help of principles, pedagogy, and management strategies. It helps the teachers to plan and present the lesson coherently.

Key Points

• There are different kinds of teaching approaches in fashion to facilitate constructive and productive learning and the 'Heuristic Method' is one of them.
• 'Heuristic Method of Teaching' is a self-discovery approach, propounded by 'H.E. Armstrong'.

Important Points

The heuristic method makes the process of problem-solving and decision-making quick and efficient by:

• emphasizing the active involvement of learners.

• promoting the use of critical and imaginative thinking.

• raising problems before students to activate their thinking power.

• enabling students to acquire knowledge by discovering the facts themselves.

Hence it could be concluded that the founder of the heuristic method of teaching is H. E. Armstrong.

Hint

• The five-stepped system of lesson planning was started by J. Friedrich Herbert, a German psychologist. His five-stage system of lesson planning involves five discrete steps including preparation, presentation, association, generalization, and application. 

• Jerome Bruner, an American psychologist has made crucial contributions in the field of human cognitive psychology. He has proposed a 'Theory of Instruction' in which he emphasizes that children construct their own knowledge with the help of teachers.