D.S. Srivastava
Showing all 15 books
Followed traditionally. Advent of virtual classrooms and video-desktop technologies promises interesting possibilities of teaching and learning at anyplace, anytime and anywhere. Today, a shift in education is becoming evident where more responsibility is being placed on the individual for his or her learning, instead of solely on the teacher. Subsequently, the teacher’s role is also changing. Education is becoming lifelong learning and training process, ...
In the new century, there is great demand for and wider diversification in higher education, as well as increased awareness in its vital importance for socio-cultural and economic development and for building the future. Higher education includes all types of studies, training for research at the post-secondary level, provide by universities or other higher educational institutes, approved by the State. There is expanding demand for knowledge-based skills in the ...
This text, Handbook of Education is an important and practical manual of education aimed at providing guidelines to the proper training and personality development of a man through symmetrical cultivation of all his noble faculties. The moral education is the most important branch of common school education of a child. The cultivation of the intellectual faculties combined with moral education can certainly develop personality of man and nation can prosper in the ...
The present book narrates the significance of ICTs in social progress, technical and market evolution, and the status of ICTs in the various regions of the world. It also discusses the barriers, impediments, and digital divides caused by ICTs. The role of governments, international community and NGOs in assisting people to achieve the larger benefits that can result form technological advances is elaboratively described in this book.
Elementary Education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. In most countries, it is compulsory for children to receive primary education though in many jurisdictions it is permissible for parents to provide it. The major goals of elementary education are achieving basic literacy and numeracy amongst all their students, as well as establishing foundations in science, geography, history and other social sciences. In ...
Teaching is an art as well as science. Knowledge of what constitutes effective teaching has increased significantly in recent years. Today teachers recognize that education is an interactive process, and that students need to be actively involved in tasks that are achievable, useful, relevant, and challenging if they are to respond successfully to the curriculum challenges posed for them. To make the process of instruction effective, teachers use a number of ...
Secondary education is the connecting link between primary education and higher education and it is often considered as the most important segment of an individual’s learning. In India, secondary education starts with classes 9-10 leading to higher secondary classes 11 and 12 and is expected to prepare young persons between the age group 14-18 in the world of work and entry into higher education. The objectives of secondary education are formulated on the ...
Just as there are differences in personality, there are differences in the ways that students learn and use information. Just as they have different preferences and ways of learning, they also change and adjust their learning strategies based on their own development and on the different learning situations in which they find themselves. The insights into how students learn, their conception of learning, differences in learning styles and background of students ...
Teachers play an important and dynamic role in providing educational opportunities to students and in making school more efficient and effective. Today, in the changing educational context, teachers are experiencing expanded duties and expectations in a variety of educational settings. To meet the increasing needs of students and to maximize the effectiveness of curriculum, teachers need to develop and update their skills and competencies continuously. The ...
Student evaluation and assessment are central to every school and classroom. It is how teachers find out what students are learning, how they are progressing, and how teachers can development. With requirements for testing and standards-based instruction at an all-time high, effective student evaluation is more essential today than ever. Both research and current practices support the use of structured assessment and placement of students in remedial courses. ...
Instruction is the purposeful direction of the learning process and is one of the major teacher class activities. Professional educators have developed a variety of models of instruction, each designed to produce classroom learning. Each model differs in the specific type or measure of learning that is targeted. Which instructional method is “right†for a particular lesson depends on many things, and among them are the age and developmental level of the ...
Teaching is an art-with scientific basis. There are no â€best†teaching skills useful to any and all classrooms. Teaching requires to make many decisions about the arrangement of content (curriculum) and the type of delivery system used (instruction) to teach the content. Making useful decisions about the teaching requires knowledge and understanding of the various curricular and instructional factors that operate in the classroom, alternative conceptions of ...
The expansion education means the development of education in different areas. The journey of development in education has widened its boundaries by assuming different forms. When a person feels himself backward in this steps show deviation. If this deviation is not checked destructive results may appear. Therefore, it would be an act of kindness if a person is offered with some ‘Psychological Change in Teaching Behavior’ to avoid deviations form right paths ...
As is the teacher, so is the nation. Infact, he is the top most academic and professional person in the educational pyramid. He is the pivot around all the educational programmes which rotate in so far as their implementation is concerned. He can either make or mar the nation and act as a mid-wife for nation's development. He can bring constructive, productive and quality education in the society because under whose charge the destiny of our children is being ...