TECHNOLOGY OF TEACHING - BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE - Paper I
OBJECTIVES
1. To enable the student teachers understand the basic principles and practices of the
Biological Science education at secondary and higher secondary levels.
2. To develop necessary competence in teaching the subject in terms of methods, skills
and techniques.
3. To train them plan, prepare and use Instructional aids in the subject.
4. To make them organise and administer biology laboratory.
5. To help them understand the principles of the curriculum construction and organisation
of the
subject matter at different levels of school education.
UNIT-I
INTRODUCTION (10 hours)
1.1 The importance of Biology as a subject of study.
1.2 The history and development of biological science.
1.3 Current trends and the need for the Inter disciplinary approach to the study of
biological science. 1.4 The different aims and objectives of Teaching biology.
1.5 Problems in Teaching biology.
UNIT- 2
PREPARATION OF CLASS ROOM INSTRUCTION (10 hours)
2.1 Lesson plan - Need and its importance in class room teaching - Various steps involved
in the preparation of lesson plans - Model lesson plan preparation - Unit plans discussions of the pros and cons.
2.2 Instructional Methods - their merits and drawbacks - Lecture Method - Demonstration
Method Assignment Method - Project Method. Modern Methods: Team Teaching Computer Assisted instruction - Reference Method - Contract Method - Opportunism Biographical method.
2.3 Scientific Method - Definition - steps - as applied to teaching of biology.
2.4 Scientific Attitude - Definition, Development, Fostering Scientific Attitude.
2.5 Models and Innovations in Teaching Biology - Philosophical models, Modern Teaching
models,
Personnel - Development model.
UNIT - 3
PREPARATION OF TEACHING AIDS (10 hours)
3.1 Instructional aids - need, uses, and kinds.
3.2 Audio - Visual aids and its importance
3.3 Visual aids - Text books, Black board, Charts, Models, Flannel preserved specimen,
non-projective nature of the above aids.
3.4 Projective aids - Film strip, Films, OHP, Loop projector, Epidiascope, Micro projector,
16mm projector, 35mm projector, Public address system, Identification of silent films,
Sound films.
3.5 Magnifying aids - hand lens, Light microscope, compound microscope - Audio aids Tap recorder Gramophone. Audio-Video aids - Television, VCR and its importance in
teaching biology.
UNIT - 4
SPECIAL AIDS FOR BIOLOGY AND THE TECHNIQUES OF PREPARATION (10
hours)
4.1 Insect box - Herbarium, preserved specimen, microslides.
4.2 Acquarium, terrarium, vivarium, School gardens, photography.
4.3 Field Visits and Biological excursions for the study of the Flora and Fauna.
4.4 Improvised aids importance and role.
4.5 Museum - need for the knowledge of museum techniques as stuffing, preservation,
mounting of
skeleton.
UNIT- 5
CONTENT OF THE BIOLOGY SYLLABUS FOR STD IX (10 hours)
5.1 Morphology of plants - Structure of plants.
5.2 Study of micro organisms (Bacteria and Virus)
5.3 Algae, Fungi, Anthrocis, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms. 5.4
Environmental, Education - Darwin study.
5.5 Animal Kingdom - Cell structure - Nutrition and Health Education Genetics and
Evoluation
Animal Ecology - Economic Zoology. Practicals - Botany and Zoology.
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