Enroll in NCERT’s free online course on Teaching of Science at the Middle Stage for Classes 6-8 teachers. Enhance your skills and engage young learners! Register by Oct 19.
About the Course
The major objectives of science learning are to cultivate scientific temper i.e objectivity, critical thinking, acquisition of skills, and understanding of methods and processes, nurturance of natural curiosity, aesthetic sense, creativity among children. Keeping these in mind, the Department of Education in Science and Mathematics (DESM) at NCERT, New Delhi has developed this online course primarily aimed for teachers teaching science up to class 8. The course will not only enhance teacher’s understanding regarding nature and role of science but also about how children learn science and the abilities, skills, attitudes and practices teachers need to develop. It will therefore facilitate in capacity enhancement in a flexible manner to a large number of teachers particularly to those whose access to educational resources or capacity building programmes is limited.
Goals
- Professional development of teachers to become reflective and competent practitioners;
- Fill gaps in teachers’ content knowledge and to give them proficiency a few steps ahead of the elementary level syllabus;
- Enable teachers to understand pedagogical content knowledge and which can be used to improve lesson plans and use alternative resources and multimedia to explain science;
- Enable teachers to learn peer discussing for exploration of a phenomenon, questioning and critical thinking skills;
- Enable teachers to explore and observe natural and social phenomena around us as examples while explaining science;
- Help teachers to get idea about how children construct knowledge, what role do questions play in knowledge construction, etc.
- Demonstrate how the role of a teacher is a facilitator to ask questions, provoke questions, and guide collective analysis;
- Demonstrate how to initiate explorations, individual and group learning activities, analyze experience to arrive at some kind of conclusions, and to do it in such a way that the conclusions are the children’s own and not the teacher’s thrust on them without convincing.
Target Group
This online course is primarily aimed for teachers who teach Science at the Middle Stage (Classes 6-8). This course is primarily designed for such individuals who are desirous of improving their domain and pedagogic skills required for teaching science at this level. The course will help them in designing their lesson plans and they can refer to the examples and learning materials while explaining concepts in class. They can also demonstrate portions of the course content as it is to their class.
Time Allocation
The course consists of 40 modules. On an average, each module can be completed in 6-8 hours. Each module will be opened on every Monday, and it is to be completed in a week. All the modules along with the final exam are to be completed in 40 weeks.
Syllabus
| Module Name | |
|---|---|
| 1 | What is Science? |
| 2 | How is Knowledge Built in Science? |
| 3 | How Children Learn? |
| 4 | Engaging Children in Active Learning |
| 5 | Teaching Learning Strategies |
| 6 | Assessment in Science |
| 7 | Physical and Chemical Changes |
| 8 | Acids, Bases and Salts |
| 9 | Metals and Non-Metals |
| 10 | Combustion and Oxidation |
| 11 | Getting Inside the Atoms and Molecules |
| 12 | Motion |
| 13 | Force |
| 14 | Fluid Pressure |
| 15 | Density and Floatation |
| 16 | Energy |
| 17 | Heat and Temperature |
| 18 | Light- I |
| 19 | Light-II |
| 20 | Static Electricity |
| 21 | Electric Current |
| 22 | Magnetism |
| 23 | Sound |
| 24 | Particle Nature of Matter |
| 25 | Elementary Astronomy |
| 26 | Living and Non-Living |
| 27 | Microorganisms |
| 28 | Cell: Structure and Function |
| 29 | Photosynthesis |
| 30 | Digestion |
| 31 | Respiration |
| 32 | Transport in plants |
| 33 | Circulation |
| 34 | Excretion |
| 35 | Skeleton and Movement |
| 36 | Life Cycle of Flowering Plants |
| 37 | Reproduction in Animals |
| 38 | Human Reproduction |
| 39 | Ecosystem and Biodiversity |
| 40 | Human Nature Interaction |
Course Staff
- Dr. Anjni Koul, Professor, DESM, NCERT
- Dr. Rejaul Karim Barbhuiya, Assistant Professor, CIET, NCERT
- Nitika Rani, Course Administrator, DESM, NCERT
- Mohd. Khalid, System Analyst, DESM, NCERT
How to Register?
Interested participants can register through this link.
Deadline
The deadline for registration is October 19, 2024.
Click here to view the official notification of the Teaching of Science at Middle Stage Course by NCERT.
