E4 Education

Assessing students’ performance is an integral part of the teaching-learning process. For this, you need to adopt various techniques of evaluation. Choice of evaluation techniques should be aligned with the learning objectives. Students learn information at different pace. You, as a teacher, have to find out the extent of students’ learning and the interventions required for facilitating rather than to master the desired content. When you assess your students, you collect information about their level of performance where as in evaluation; you compare a student’s achievement with other students with a set of standards. Evaluation is integrated into all aspects of the curriculum, thus providing both students and teachers useful and relevant data to gauge progress of students. Not only teachers but also students play an important role in assessing their own learning progress. While assessing students, you need to keep the following points in mind: ·          Which technique shoul

Of late, we come across many modern electronic devices in classroom, like computer. Communication through these devices is done using images, animations, videos and graphics. Many media are used for concept formation, attainment as well as clarification. Multimedia are used on the premise that students learn better from well-designed multi-media materials in comparison to traditional modes of communication. The basic premise is that more the number of senses involved, the more efficacious is student learning. Multimedia uses text, graphic, animation, video and sound in a unified and integrated manner so that the content is presented to students comprehensively. This comprehensibility would have been less if only one medium was used. Thus, we may say that Multimedia uses text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video in different combinations but in an integrated and holistic manner. Elements of Multimedia Multimedia has six basic elements: Text, Images, Graphics, Aud

CAI As the name suggests, CAI is an interactive and self-learning technique. The content is presented on computer screen and the learner interacts with the computer for learning. It could be offline/online, involving interaction of the student with the contents presented on the computer screen in the form of programmed instruction. CAI uses a multimedia i.e. combination of text, graphics, sound and video in enhancing the learning process. It is delivered through the use of the computer to facilitate and improve instruction. Important modes of delivery or instructional strategies used in CAI are tutorials, drill and practice, simulation, games, etc.. These are used for presentation of content and assessment of learner understands. Therefore, a typical CAI will have multimedia content, mostly text, multiple choice questions, problems for application, immediate feedback, notes on incorrect response, exercises for practice, and result of learner performance. Advantages of

USE OF LOCAL/COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE (And Learners’ Own Experiences In The Teaching Learning Process (Constructivist Perspective)) What is Local Knowledge/Community Knowledge? You may wonder that if schools prescribe textbook in social sciences, what is the purpose of using local/community knowledge in the transaction of learning experiences. Is there any scope for incorporating local knowledge in our teaching-learning strategies? As you know that the aim of education is to relate the knowledge imparted in the school to the children’s own world. Our children will learn better if the content is related to them. This connection is possible through contextual learning or situating learning in the context of the children’s world. There is a need to have close association between school and children’s local environment. If there is porous boundary between school and their environment then they recognize themselves as proactive participants in the learning process. Then they express thei

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT – FREUD’S THEORY WHAT IS PERSONALITY?             The first and the foremost objective of this lesson is to understand the exact meaning of the word personality. The word personality originated from the Latin word ‘persona’ meaning ‘mask’. This mask referred to the theatrical mask of performers projecting various roles by disguising their identity. As personality does not have one final definition, it could be defined in various ways. But now let us see how the term personality is defined in relation to its focus – whether the focus is on an individual on human beings as a whole.                          When the focus is on human beings as a whole the term personality is defined as observable psychological variations among the individuals. It would include appearance and build in physical terms and socio-emotional and behavioural characteristics in psychological terms.               However, when the focus is on an individual, then it is defi