Education Curriculum of Learning In Children

To develop in children a broad range of skills, including the problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills that are essential for successful living in a rapidly changing society.  The curriculum encourages student initiative by providing children with materials, equipment, and time to pursue activities they choose.  At the same time, it provides teachers with a framework for guiding children’s independent activities toward sequenced learning goals. There are seven specific types of learning styles. Visual learners prefer to learn mathematics through pictures, diagrams etc.  A well-balanced intelligent child is able to develop all the types of learning styles. The students have to understand and accept their type of learning style earlier so that learning becomes easier and less stressful in the future. But it is important to train and practice the other types of learning styles so that the children can utilize them as effectively as possible. The teacher plays a key role in instructional activities by selecting appropriate, developmentally sequenced material and by encouraging children to adopt an active problem-solving approach to learning. This teacher-student interaction teachers helping students achieve developmentally sequenced goals while also encouraging them to set many of their own goals uniquely distinguishes the High/Scope Curriculum from direct-instruction and child-centered curricula (high/Scope Educational Research Foundation, 1989).  Teachers keep notes about significant behaviors, changes, statements, and things that help them better understand a child’s way of thinking and learning.  Teachers use two mechanisms to help them collect data: the key experiences note form and a portfolio.  The High/Scope Child Observation Record is also used to assess children’s development.  According to Ronald Barnett, learning may or may not take place when a subject is taught.  While discussing this point he has presented two contrasting images of quality.  They are institutional performance and student experience, student learning or student achievement.  The teacher in his opinion is central to higher education.  Teaching may be able to improve the quality of student’s learning but the teacher should remind himself that it may also impair the quality of student’s learning.  This is partly because student’s learning strategies vary under two polarities, one between deep and surface understanding and the other between holistic and atomistic understanding of their learning experiences.  He goes on to add that for a student, learning has three distinct aspects: learning style, motivation and curriculum demands.  Therefore teachers have to pursue, beyond teaching strategies to enable their students to attain certain specific skills.

Effect of Information Communication Technologies Icts Instructional Approach on Academic Acheivement Retention and Interest of Higher Secondary Students

The present study was an effort to see the effects of information communication technologies (ICTS) instructional approach, on the academic achievement, retention and interest of higher secondary students. The main objectives were, to find the difference in mathematics achievement in the control and experimental groups before and after the experiment. The present study was experimental in nature and true experimental design was used. Here in this study there was random assignment of the control and experimental groups to two different groups. The accessible population of the present study was the higher secondary school students of the two schools of Dera Ismail Khan (GHSS No4 Dera Ismail and St. Helen Higher Secondary school Dera Ismail Khan). A sample of 60 male students selected from GHSS No 4 DIKhan and a sample of 60 female students was selected from St. Helen’s Higher Secondary School DIKhan. Three instruments (pre-test, post-test, and interest inventory) were used for data collection. The result shows that ICT instructional approach was more effective as compared to the traditional lecture method. The pre –test was achievement test in the subjects of mathematics developed by researchers. This test was to divide the sample into equated groups. The post-test was to check the academic achievement and retention of students after experiment and the interest inventory to check the interest of students in the different methods of teachings. The descriptive as well as inferential statistics were used for analysis of data.