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Personality development is the development of organized behavioural pattern and characteristics to create a strong and positive image of self. Personal development is a lifelong major undertaking. A well-rounded and developed personality is one that does not always have to be tested by speech and communication, a mere presence can be felt of a desirable personality, with proper development.
Career management is a new branch of personality development. It involves ...
This book entitled "Teaching of Foreign Languages" deals with eleven chapters. Chapter first deals with 'Teaching pronunciation' play most significant role in the field of any language. Some times, teachers ignore about the exact pronunciation of different words in teaching from the very beginning of schooling that leads the students in difficult to make exact pronunciation of word. This wrong pronunciation changes complete meaning of words as ...
The book entitled "Research in Teaching of Literature" deals with total seven chapters. Chapter first ‘The Psychology of Language’ describe general theories of language acquisition like behaviourism and mentalism. It also explains individual variation in language learning performance regarding language aptitude, motivation and age variation. Any methods of teaching which aim to make use of actual sentences rather than abstract symbols must have a ...
The book entitled “Research in Teaching of Science and Mathematics†deals with total fourteen chapters. Chapter First ‘Areas or Vital Concern’ describes about various barriers to an effective programme like lack of understanding consultation, and facilities. It explains different factors in selection the elementary school science curriculum, attitude development, levels of student achievement, etc. it also emphasizes the importance of team teaching ...
The concept of distance learning is continually evolving and expanding as new technologies are developed and integrated into the wide spectrum if existing ones. Distance learning technology enhances a student's capacity to engage in learning that he/she selects, at any time, in a variety of modes, and with experts both within and beyond the classroom. It helps learners meet their educational needs by overcoming barriers of distance and time, by providing remote ...
The concept of distance learning is continually evolving and expanding as new technologies are developed and integrated into the wide spectrum of existing ones. Distance learning technology enhances a student’s capacity to engage in learning that he/she selects, at any time, in a variety of modes, and with experts both within and beyond the classroom. It helps learners meet their educational needs by overcoming barriers of distance and time, by providing remote ...
The advent of innovative information and communication technologies have induced tremendous changes in the present educational system. These interactive technologies have affected the very nature of teaching and learning. In response to this situation, educational institutions which offer traditional programs as well as distance education programs have been attempting to redefine traditional pedagogical approaches by integrating information and communication ...
The rapid breakthroughs in new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is changing the way knowledge is developed acquired and delivered. The new technologies offer opportunities to innovate on course content and teaching methods and to widen access to higher learning. The present book is an authentic in-depth analysis of contemporary situations, progresses and challenges in the field of higher education. It will be highly useful for higher education ...
Technology, specifically in the form of computers and the internet, has become a major focus of education policy and reform in recent years. The teacher plays a key role in determining not only how but how well technologies are used in classrooms, and thus the extent to which technologies improve student performance. This book describes teachers' use of education technology in their classrooms and schools, the availability of this technology to them, training and ...
This textbook is intended to fill a dual role. First, it should be useful as a manual along with the upper division college course in social studies for the secondary school; second, it could serve some of the needs of social studies teachers in service, as a reference to current curricular practices, recent materials and as an attempt to make a whole pattern out of the welter of human experience.
This is a book about the development of behavior in young children in our society. In beginning a study of the research literature on young children's behavior is covered. You should keep in mind that what research workers in this field know is also limited: by the kinds of questions they asked in setting up their studies, by the kinds of child populations they studied by the methods they used, and by the interpretations they made of their research results. It ...
Instruction is the purposeful direction of the learning process and is one of the major teacher class activities along with planning and management. It is a complex process and can take many forms. It is a vitally important classroom activity, but must be considered in the context of such factors as measures of desired student learning, controlling student behaviour, individual differences among students, and school processes and characteristics. This volume ...
The art of teaching mathematics lies in the ability of the instructor to motivate and inspire individuals to look beyond the numbers and understand the concepts. This book is designed to revive this art, focusing more on the aspects of learning the ideas behind the math rather than the sheer mechanics of mathematical operation. This text address the art of teaching mathematics while also providing specific aids and activities in arithmetic, geometry, algebra and ...
Teachers are an essential link between children with learning disabilities and the interventions and services that can help them. There is no student with a learning disability who cannot learn, if a teacher has received appropriate training and is willing to spend the time, using his or her expertise to reach and teach that child. To meet the goal of equal access to the curriculum for everyone, to enable each student to engage with his or her lessons in a ...
Learning disability is a general term that describes specific kinds of learning problems. A learning disability can cause a person to have trouble learning and using certain skills. The skills most often affected are; reading, writing, listening, speaking, reasoning, and doing math. Learning disabilities very from person to person. The present book provides ideas for accommodations and specific instructional strategies for teaching spelling, reading, and writing ...
Home Science subject centres around home and family since its inception. It was originally conceptualized as an interdisciplinary applied science drawing upon knowledge from physical, biological and social science to enhance family welfare. It is a field which started as the need for training for girls in the context of changes in the socio-economic structure as well as changes in the family systems and functions. In this way this subject had placed an, excessive ...
Educational processes are rooted in and are defined by, philosophical thoughts and social realities; it is therefore necessary for educators to do the better to comprehend the complexities which lie behind making education accessible for everybody. Philosophy and Sociology serve as highly resourceful subjects for understanding the mechanisms operation behind the prevalence of education, even as they draw from the educational field of educational processes and ...
Recognising the need to bring in psychological comprehension into the world of both teachers and learners, the book has been written as an educational treatise. The book embarks on a thorough and insightful journey into the psychological processes that underlie those who are involved in the mechanisms and machinations of education. The book looks into the what gives shape and contour to the implications of an educational intervention, and how they are relevant to ...
Enabling people to truly serve and partake in the progress and transformation of society, education gives shape to almost every process which lies behind the running of a milieu. As such, it also becomes necessary to ascertain the modes and media of education, the better to comprehend the ways through which education is imparted and the implications of these ways. This book elucidates upon educational technology in all its aspects –theories and practices, ...
This book presents forth the reader an incisive exploration of the changing arena of education, and the call it makes for teaching therein. Numerous modes of teaching and delivering education have been enumerated upon in the book, including both school and college education. Implicated within it are the emerging trends and needs which make an educated person valuable to society, and how these newer models of teaching can be incorporated within the framework of ...
Educational psychology become a crucial tool to understand the impulses which compel undertaking education, and the way it moulds critical and creative appreciation of the world we live in. Recognising the need for an educational treatise on the psychology of education, the book is in insightful exploration of the behavioural, cognitive, social cognitive and constructive processes which encourage the imparting of education, and how they give shape to modes of ...