Factors affecting selection and use of extension teaching methods
Selection of teaching methods will be conditional by certain overlapping consideration.
- Number of people who make the extension clientele in the area
- Emphasis to be placed upon the alternatives of influencing a large number of people or influencing small number of people
- The size of extension staff and amount of supporting specialist assistance
- The availability of certain communication media eg newspaper, radio, TV
Audience based consideration
- Size, Age, ethnicity, caste, income level and social status of audience
- Educational change expected in the people
- Extent to which people already know and change expected in the learners
Agency based consideration
- Size of manpower, financial and other resources
- Geographical coverage
- Number of people to be involved
- Content consideration
- Personality and skills of the workers
Teacher and tools-based consideration
- Amount of time teacher expect to devote
- Availability of communication media and complexity of the methods each other
Subject matter-based consideration
- The nature of complexity of subject matter: old/new, simple/complex
- Relative economic and social importance of the subject matter
- The relative effectiveness of the methods