Teaching and Learning Resources for School Education

No educational effort or reform can be complete without recognising the importance of TLRs, their actual development and reflective use. This one-of-a-kind textbook, with contributions from an eclectic mix of academics, researchers and practitioners, deals with the development and effective application of TLRs to construct a meaningful learning environment for children.

Teaching and Learning Resources for Elementary School Teachers addresses and fulfils a need repeatedly expressed by educators at different forums.

Contents: Preface. I. Teaching Learning Resources: Introduction. 1. Conceptualising Teaching Learning Resources/Disha Nawani.

2. Understanding Activities in Learning/Preeti Misra and Hriday Kant Dewan. II. Learners, learning and resources: 3. Resources in Teaching Learning: Cognitive and Pedagogic Considerations/Padma M. Sarangapani. 4. Montessori Materials: Enduring Relevance and Appeal/Rajni Divya Kumar. 5. Khel Khel Mein: Exploring the Complex Ecology of Teaching Learning Resources/Surya Pratap Deka, Kanika Saraff and Swapnil Gaikwad. 6. Materials for Children with Visual Handicap/Abha Basargekar. III. Textbook related concerns: 7. Multiple Dilemmas of Textbook Development and Use/C. N. Subramaniam. 8. Development and Production of Textbooks: Some Insights/Hriday Kant Dewan and Rajni Dwivedi. 9. Akbar, Jahangir or Shahjahan: Do Images Help Us Learn Better?/Alex M George. IV. Resources Beyond Textbooks: 10. Books that Worm into You: Children’s Literature for Elementary Classes/Prachi Kalra. 11. Effective Teaching and Learning through Radio/Zakiya Kurrien. 12. Drama in the Classroom: Provocations and Possibilities/Sukhesh Arora.

13. Local Resources as Teaching Learning Materials/Richa Goswami and Hriday Kant Dewan. V. Teaching learning resources and domain-specific concerns: 14. Learning Materials: Conceptualisation, Use and Role of the Teacher/Anjali Noronha. 15. Democratising Teaching Learning of Science: The Hoshangabad Experience/Sushil Joshi. 16. Toying with Trash: Celebrating Experience in Learning Science Disha Nawani in Conversation/Arvind Gupta. 17. Drawing from Life/Karen Haydock. 18. Designing and Developing Teaching Learning Materials in Geography: A Theoretical Framework/Kuldeep Garg. 19. Bilingual Material for Language Development/Varsha Sahasrabuddhe. V. Teachers and teaching learning resources: 20. Teaching Learning Resources in Pre-Service Teacher Education Sector/Mythili Ramchand. 21. Intellectualising Teachers’ Education: A Study of Practice-Based Teacher Education/Rohit Setty. 22. Curricular Materials in Early Language and Literacy Classrooms in Karnataka and Maharashtra/Shailaja Menon and Bindu Thirumalai. 23. Digital Resources for Teachers Professional Learning: Some Lessons/Meera Gopi Chandran. Index.