Training of KRPs in Development of Teaching Learning Material and Activity based Teaching of Science and Technology at Elementary level (Chandigarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Jammu & Kashmir)

Abstract

Teaching of Science should generate thinking. This becomes meaningful when learners get an opportunity to observe some activities being performed by their teachers before their own eyes in their classrooms. Science teaching has been different from teaching of other disciplines since activities/demonstrations are the essentials of science teaching. It becomes more pertinent when one talks of the organic linkage between Science and Technology. This has been reflected in the textbooks of Science and Technology developed by NCERT where we come across a large number of activities in each chapter. Besides teaching-learning process can be made effective by involving students in formulating and verifying hypothesis and solving problems rather than allowing them to sit passively in the class rooms and listening to explanations. The passive mode (stereo type) of interactions has to be replaced by methods involving active learning in order to achieve the desired goals of education. The National Policy of education (1986) and NCF (2005) have also laid considerable emphasis on participation of students in the teaching-learning process. It is an accepted fact that activity based learning, literally meaning learning by doing, enables students gain first hand knowledge and better comprehension of the subject.