dear Sunil sir in my opinion, it is not useful to have a vote on this issue - that will only tell us how many people agree/disagree (summative information)
what will be more useful for all teachers is if we can analyse why we feel it was difficult, i can suggest some points for the discussion 1. was the question paper having questions on topics not part of the syllabus 2. was the question forcing students to think and apply what they learnt ... and not focusing on producing information from rote memory 3. was the level of Kannada language difficult to understand. i have not seen the science paper. But my doubt is as follows - if the question paper is not encouraging students to write from rote memory but forcing them to think and apply what they have learnt in answering, I think it may be difficult but it is good. Here the question is as teachers, are we making students memorise content, or are we helping them understand concepts which they can apply as per the question in the exam. as per the national curricular framework 2005 science position paper, one of the problems in science teaching is that we teach facts to be memorised by students. whereas the facts (content) is to be used for helping conceptual understanding. for eg. while teaching periodic table, it can be simply taught as a table to be memorised. where student needs to memorise (by heart) the atomic number of 100+ elements and see how they can be placed in the table. or it can be learn by exploring 'how is matter around us structured? what is the concept of an element? are there a finite number of elements? what does an element signify - physically, chemically? how did scientists try to address these questions, what answers did they give? here science becomes a method to understand nature, build models. not as a set of boring facts ... the question papers also should gradually move from content / memory testing to testing conceptual understanding. (this applies to all subjects, not only science). again, as I said, I have not seen the question paper, so this is only an opinion. I will be interested to hear your responses to my thoughts and also your own understanding of why the paper is being seen as difficult by many teachers. perhaps such a qualitative discussion (on the reasons etc) can help us understand how we can become better science teachers next year... regards Guru, IT for Change IT for Change, Bengaluru www.ITforChange.net On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:09 PM, sunilsringeri revanker < [email protected]> wrote: > LETS HV VOTE > On Apr 5, 2016 1:50 PM, "shashikumarcrkumar" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. >> >> -- >> 1. If a teacher wants to join STF, visit >> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Become_a_STF_groups_member >> 2. For STF training, visit KOER - >> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php >> 4. 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