@gurumurthy sir. Even I didn't see d paper. M y students discussed questions wit me. I came to a conclusion that they are beyond d level a 10th grade students. No its our turn to think 1)hav v taught d concepts to that level. 2)is d time provided enough to us to teach Dat much deep about d concept. 3)can d rural below average students can think such deep into d concept. 4)we have given passpackages for drill. Was Dat came helpful to den. 5)below average students complained Dat no questions came from d pass packages wat v hav given for drill. On Apr 8, 2016 4:58 PM, "chiranjeevi khethavath" < [email protected]> wrote:
> Dear sir not only this year. every year science question paper was not > difficult to our teachers.compare to other subject QP,sc QP is little bit > difficult to rural Kannada medium students, they took passmark but cont > get more marks > On Apr 8, 2016 2:04 PM, "Gurumurthy K" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. 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