science paper ge ee bari grace marks kodalebeku antha ella science teachers kelbeku enanthira
On 8 April 2016 at 20:40, Gurumurthy K <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Subramani sir > > thank you for your reply. It is exactly connected to what I was saying. > > I agree that there are many pressures on teachers to take the 'short cut' > of drill/pass package instead of the 'more difficult' path of conceptual > understanding - the quantum of syllabus is too much, the education > system/department does not encourage conceptual learning but puts pressure > on exam results, teachers knowledge of pedagogies and concepts may also > need to be improved but teacher training programs are not effective. and > teacher educators themselves may not know better. > > However, having said the above, I feel strongly that teachers must take > the path of teaching their students conceptual understanding and abandon > the drill/pass package method/route which only fails the children.... this > is not just my opinion, this is the spirit of NCF 2005, so it is national > policy as well. > > Children are in school to learn, develop conceptual understanding which is > necessary for application in real life. > > In my opinion, learning is not equal to drill / pass packages. I am making > a statement that will not be liked by some, but drill and pass packages > only end up cheating the children. Also drill methods make students > dislike the subject. Whereas if students learn science through the right > approaches (learning science by doing, exploring science curiously, > building models to understand nature, developing a scientific temper etc > ....). 'Good' Indian students are well known for their ability to parrot > out content but with very poor ability to apply it in real life situations. > what use is that bookish knowledge. > > And I say this with the knowledge that there are many teachers in our > Karnataka GHS, who are trying the path of conceptual learning and > succeeding as well. Their experiences and learnings can guide us well. Let > us give up the pass package approach... this I am saying not only for > science but for all subjects. I request teachers like Shashi Kumar sir, > Mohan sir, Radha Madam, Gulzar madam (and hundreds of other such teachers > who are members of this group) who have been adopting different approaches > to help students really develop conceptual understanding of science, to > share their experiences and methods, which can help all teachers. > > Once again, Subramani sir, thanks for frankly sharing your views, so that > we can debate and discuss the issue fully and understand one another. > > regards, > Guru > > > IT for Change, Bengaluru > www.ITforChange.net > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Subramani V <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> @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. 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