Monday, July 28, 2008

Road to Effective Learning


Why do children shy away from studies? How does a 6 year old child remember the time slots of his favorite cartoon programmes but finds it incredibly hard to remember the A to Z of 1 to 100? Researchers and teachers have been trying to find the answers to similar questions. With infinite case studies and even more being done every so often, the answer is right in front of us.

The teaching module that is prescribed by the boards of most of the countries, inevitably, suffers from the same deficit i.e. following a theory led pattern of teaching. Students lost in books till neck down, can’t wait to get a respite from the school and those hard to learn lessons. Learning is a process which stems from understanding of concepts and formula’s and not mugging up complex theories.

Education in the 21st century is regarded more like a page turner model. Teachers referring to the notes that they have prepared back at the time of completing their own education, with minor changes every now and then has become a nomenclature.

However, educationists around the world have woken up to the needs of changing the facet of education…one that would help in increasing substantially the effectiveness of teaching and restrict learning by rote.

Stick around for more discussion on the same subject! Ciao for now.