Monday, April 27, 2009

OBJECTIVES OF TEACHING

Objective is also called as short term aim. Aims will be divided into many parts. If all the parts successfully attained, then only we called Aim is attained.

To attain the parts we plan to achieve in the form of short time schedules, called periods. These parts can be called OBJECTIVES.

The Objectives are classified into four important parts. They are,
1. KNOWLEDGE: - Relates to previous knowledge.
2. UNDERSTANDING: - Relates to present lesson.
3. APPLICATION: - Relates to develop how to implement to daily life as well as thinking.
4. SKILL: - Improves inherent potentialities.

The above objectives will be achieved in the form BEHAVIORAL CHANGES.

AIMS OF TEACHING

A plan of action to attain the goal can be called as AIM. Aim is broader in the meaning. To attain aims of the subject, it takes certain duration as one year or two or more. These are divided into many groups. But according to Mathematics these are mainly divided into nine parts. They are as follows,

1. UTILITARIAN AIM: - Improves usage of Mathematics in daily life.
2. DISCIPLINARY AIM: - Develops intellectual habits among children.
3. CULTURAL AIM: - Helps to understand the role of Mathematics in fine arts and in beatifying the life.
4. ADJUSTMENT AIM
5. SOCIAL AIM
6. MORAL AIM
7. AESTHETIC AIM
8. INTERNATIONAL AIM
9. VOCATIONAL AIM.

IMPORTANCE:-

Aimless teaching is wastage of time, energy and resources. Hence aims helps to improve the quality of teaching for a prescribed course.

PREFACE

Teaching is not everybody’s cup of coffee. As there is a saying,”NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE”, teaching can also be made easy if we kept some ideas in our mind. The aims of teaching will be achieved if we answer the following questions,
1. What to teach?
2. Why to teach?
3. How to teach?
In other words the process of teaching is being called as METHODOLOGY.

Coming to Mathematics, it is the most and vastly used subject by the world. Why because it is knowingly or unknowingly part and parcel of human life. Oxygen is essential for living things. In the same way without Mathematics you can’t imagine the human life. So Mathematics can also be called as OXYGEN to human beings daily life.

Let us know how to teach Mathematics and implement the same to the daily life.

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