I like it On Sunday, September 4, 2016, Ravikumar Ganiger <rggani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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. To >> connect the content of learning and teaching with various situations of >> the >> real world, and to apply the knowledge learned to these situations. >> - Emphasize the training of problem-solving abilities to students, >> making students become active and self-motivated learners. >> - Make use of group activities to encourage students to get involved >> and learn from each other. >> >> >> read the entire article at http://www.hk-phy.org/contextu >> al/approach/tem/reflect_e.html >> >> >> regards >> >> Guru >> IT for Change, Bengaluru >> www.ITforChange.net >> >> -- >> 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. For Ubuntu 14.04 installation, visit http://karnatakaeducation.org. >> in/KOER/en/index.php/Kalpavriksha >> 4. 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