Assignment dhanya
- 1. ASSIGNMENT TOPIC: Relevance of Work Book Submitted by, Dhanya S Roll No: 60 B.Ed Geography
- 2. INTRODUCTION A great deal of attention is now being focused on the professional duties of teachers, especially, those duties associated with careful and detailed planning of teaching and learning. Teachers in Fiji have been preparing and using workbooks as detailed plan of teaching and learning for a long time. A literature survey, however suggests that there is very little information on the effectiveness of workbooks. This paper attempts to fulfill this need by discussing the finding of a research study that looked at the effectiveness of workbooks in teaching and learning in a primary school in Fiji.
- 3. DATA COLLECTION Work books prepared by learners are of vital importance in the development of various skills. By working on the assignments in the workbook, the pupils learn by doing. The tasks should be of such a nature that they would lead to the concretization of the concepts presented in the text book for example, the pictures of the different scripts of different countries may be given, and pupils asked to name them. Similarly, the pictures of some of the tools and weapons of the past and the present may be given and the pupils may be asked to name them. Again pupils may be asked to locate places and events in given maps and time lines. Problems which require application of the knowledge gained in new situations also can be given. Objective type questions may be asked which could be answered with the help of text books. Our present text books which are largely activity oriented serve this need as well.
- 4. ADVANTAGES Workbooks are often used in a school for younger students, either in middle school or elementary school. They are faroxd because students can work directly in their books, eliminating the need for loose leaf and coping questions from a text book. In industry they may be customized interactive manuals which are used to help provide structure to an otherwise complex problem. Work book also hold an advantages because they are usually smaller and lighter than text which equals to less trouble when the student brings the book home to complete their home work The term ‘work book’ is also used to describe other compilations of questions that require the reader to complete scratch work when dealing with higher level mathematics. It can also be used as a training tool for certain job positions. More recently, electronic work books have permitted interactive and customized learning. Such work books may be used on computers, lap tops, PDA’s and may be web based.
- 5. CONCLUSION The preparation of workbooks and other aspect of teaching and learning have not improved very much. As the study shows, the preparation of the work book is administration requirements and not necessarily a meaningful exercise for effective teaching and learning. Teachers largely teach from the teacher and pupils hand books and other texts provided by CDU. REFERENCE 1. Wikipedia