What is the Pulling Technique?

What is the Pulling Technique?

• A. The instructor engages participants using approaches that actively involve the participants in their own learning.
• B. The instructor delivers content with no participant input.
• C. The instructor discourages questions.
• D. The instructor uses only lectures.

Answer: (A)

The pulling technique centers on actively involving learners by drawing out their thinking through questions and prompts, rather than simply delivering information. In this approach, the instructor steers discussion with targeted questions that help students articulate what they know, reason through problems, and connect ideas to real situations. This keeps learners mentally engaged, allows the instructor to gauge understanding in real time, and strengthens retention by having students verbalize and apply concepts. That’s why the best choice describes engaging participants with approaches that actively involve them in their own learning. The other options describe more passive methods—delivering content with no input, discouraging questions, or relying only on lectures—that don’t promote the active participation central to the pulling technique.

The pulling technique centers on actively involving learners by drawing out their thinking through questions and prompts, rather than simply delivering information. In this approach, the instructor steers discussion with targeted questions that help students articulate what they know, reason through problems, and connect ideas to real situations. This keeps learners mentally engaged, allows the instructor to gauge understanding in real time, and strengthens retention by having students verbalize and apply concepts.

That’s why the best choice describes engaging participants with approaches that actively involve them in their own learning. The other options describe more passive methods—delivering content with no input, discouraging questions, or relying only on lectures—that don’t promote the active participation central to the pulling technique.