Sir, A very good article to go through. Thanks for sharing.
Contextual teaching definitely helps to get the concepts clear. Eventually whole of Physics at its core goes to abstraction and full of Mathematics. To me, apart from presenting contexts relevant to teaching point (concepts to be cleared) what is more important is to break the context event in micro time intervals with patience and present all sequences of context event with enthusiasm. For example take the study of graphs relating position vs time of a car having uniform acceleration. As a teacher I may present n number of contexts relating uniform acceleration. That is just a beginning point. After I present the context, the real part is to analyse the event by breaking it in small time intervals and make the child have a feel of all those changes happened to velocities, positions, time stamps of context and relate the changes to each other using Mathematics and present it graphs. Prepare several other types of graphs and encourage the students to imagine the contexts that are relevant to changed graphs. This is where technology helps. Animations can be of great help in making the job of teaching Physics less cumbersome and the task of learning a joyous one. In fact animations, in right sense, are nothing but the way of contextual teaching of Physics. A physics teachers job is really challenging one as it requires 1. Higher level of alertness both from students as well as teachers. 2. Every now and then requires contextual way of teaching. 3. Good feel of mathematics and its application because I believe Mathematics is the language of Physics. 4. Frequent brainstorming sessions to check students involvement. I think, before entering class room as a teacher of Physics we need to meditate on the sequence of teaching learning experiences that we intend to impart in classroom. Mentally the whole of period should be mapped on time scale. Otherwise, I feel, there is always a danger of making contextual teaching a fun session having least or no relevance to concepts and pushing the pupils more towards confusion Thanks for sharing such a nice article with forum members. With Respect, Ravikumar. On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Gurumurthy K <itfc.stfk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Physics teachers, > > sometimes you may face challenges in relating the concepts, laws and > principles from the syllabus to real life situations ... and for students, > physics can sometimes seem 'dry'. this article discusses how to link > physics teaching to real life contexts. > > pl read and share your thoughts.. > > regards > Guru > > What is Contextual Teaching and Learning? > > Context-based Learning and Teaching of Physics is a very broad term. > Generally speaking, it represents the use of events from students' and > teachers' life, social, and cultural background as a platform to learn > physics. Some less general views consider that context-based learning and > teaching of physics emphasizes the application of physics principles on > different situations, as means to strengthen students' understanding of > physics and broaden their perspectives. Different academics have different > interpretations when talking about contextual teaching and learning. Of > course, the core of their concepts also has a lot of areas in common, which > is broadly summarized as the following points. > > - The view that learning and teaching need to proceed through the use > of different contexts, for example, family, school and the society. 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