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3. About the Course
Fazaia Teacher’s Training Institute (TTI) had specially designed a
course held on 15-19 June , 2015. Course objectives were:-
1. To develop understanding of teaching students about historical
and physical surroundings
2. Use their knowledge and skills to become informed citizens
3. Use of variety of teaching methods to deliver subject specific
contents in classrooms
4. Make teachers conscious of the need of affective language as an
important component of teaching Social studies
5. Repair viable instruction material that would serve as an essential
Aids to clarify the concepts of students
6. Talk wisely about the important issues happening in the country
and all over the world.
4. Course Contents
Affective utilization of syllabus books
Lesson planning
Methods of teaching social studies
Personality grooming
Project based teaching
Concept teaching
Language: Important component in teaching social studies
Map reading
Talk on national security
9. How to explain the geography?
It is difficult to explain graphs, maps and different types of lands to students.
We can explain it with the help of charts with pictures of different types of
land like forest , desert, sea etc.
1. Pictures
2. Maps
3. Internet
4. Activities
16. Writing and presenting activity
It should be high level written activity like after a visit write sentences what
you observe. Questions should be made by students them selves. Do not
suggest questions.
18. Project work
Project work is a series of activities that allows the students to study, do
research and act by themselves using their abilities, interests, personal
experience and aptitudes.
22. Strategies to Remember facts of History
Understanding
Visualizing
Rhyming
Story telling
Acronyms
Writing sentences
23. Understanding
Visualize is to imagine, or to paint a picture of something in your
mind, or to make something visible
Example:
We can dramatized the important incidents of history by involving
the students, which will help them to remember the small details of
the incidents.
Visualizing
The ability to learn, judge or make decisions.
24. Rhyming
Students are interested in listening rhymes, so this technique can be
applied to make them remember history facts easily.
Story Telling
Example:
In order to explain the path of River Indus, we can use the technique of
story telling. We can tell different stories about the caliphs and kings.
25. Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial components in a
phrase or a word. Acronyms can be very helpful in learning long
phrases because they are easier to write and remember.
Examples:
1. DIY: Do It Yourself
2. BC: Before Crist
3. NASA: National Aeronautical and Space Administration
History facts can also be remembered by making sentences.
For example:
Baap Hamara Akber Jaan se Aziz
Writing sentences: