CTET Paper 1 - November 2012 (English-Hindi-Sanskrit) (Previous Year Paper)

Learning disabilities are disorders that affect brain functioning of understanding, reading, writing, spelling, reasoning, or recalling ability. Learning disabilities can also cause problems in learning skills, language skills, mathematical operations, and coordinating movements. Learning disabilities are continual and can cause continual lifelong challenges. Children with learning abilities often have average or above-average intelligence.

Key Points

• Learning Disability is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of specific kinds of learning problems. Children with learning disabilities experience difficulty in learning and using certain skills namely reading, writing, listening, etc.
• Learning disabilities are diagnosed particularly when children start going to schools and are engaged in academic activities with other children in the school.
• Academic skill acquisition involves one or more of the basic psychological processes, such as attention, perception, memory, logical thinking, and so on.
• When there is some deficit in these basic processes, it may be seen in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.
• Learning Disabilities are not contagious and are due to genetic or neurobiological factors which affect cognitive processes related to learning.
• Learning Disabilities can run in those whose paternal relatives have such problems (genetic), but environmental factors can also play an important role.

Thus, it is clear that Learning Disabilities are generally found in especially those children whose paternal relatives have such problems.

Additional Information

Common Learning Disabilities:

Learning disabilities are disorders that affect brain functioning of understanding, reading, writing, spelling, reasoning or recalling ability. Learning disabilities can also cause problems in learning skills, language skills, mathematical operations and coordinating movements. Learning disabilities are continual and can cause continual lifelong challenges. Children with learning abilities often have average or above-average intelligence. Learning Disabilities are not contagious. Learning Disabilities are due to genetic or neurobiological factors which affect cognitive processes related to learning. Learning Disabilities can run in those whose paternal relatives have such problems (genetic), but environmental factors can also play an important role

Key Points

• If a child can't distinguish between 'saw' and 'was', he is suffering from a language-based disability, "Dyslexia". Dyslexia is the most common learning disability.  Dyslexia is a language-based disability in which a person faces problems in understanding written words. It is also referred to as a reading disorder.
• A child suffering from Dyslexia may find it difficult to distinguish between words, 'nest' and 'best', 'glow' and 'slow'.

Important Points

Common Learning Disabilities:

• Dysgraphia: Dysgraphia is a writing disability in which a person finds it hard to form letters or write within a defined space. It affects a person's handwriting ability. A person with Dysgraphia may exhibit difficulty with letter spacing, trouble thinking and writing simultaneously.
• Dyscalculia:  Dyscalculia is a mathematical disability in which a person's ability to understand numbers and grasp math concepts is affected.
• Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: It actually refers to difficulties in decoding nonverbal behaviours or social clues. NVLD suffers struggle with understanding body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, or nonverbal aspects of communication.

Hence, a child cannot distinguish between 'saw' and 'was', 'nuclear'. He/She is suffering from Dyslexia.

• Information processing theory is a cornerstone of cognitive psychology that uses computers as a metaphor for the way the human mind works. It was initially proposed in the mid-50s by American psychologists including George Miller to explain how people process information into memory.

Key Points

• According to this theory, thinking is connected with the information one receives from the environment through one's senses and the nature of the thought process depends on how it is utilized by the individual from the time he perceived it until the time he processes it at various depth levels in solving his problem or chalking out a strategy or plan.
• The stages are sensory processing, retrieval of relevant information from memory, and manipulation of information.

The steps of the information processing model of thinking can be understood as follows.

• Pre-Processing: This is the initial stage where sensory information (input) is received and coded by the sensory organs and the nervous system. It involves initial filtering, detection, and transformation of the raw data into a usable form.
• Categorisation: After the initial processing, the mind attempts to recognize and assign meaning to the input. This involves comparing the processed data to existing memory stores and putting the stimulus into a category or concept.
• Response selection: Based on the identified category and the goal of the task, the individual chooses the appropriate action or response from a repertoire of possible responses. This is a decision-making stage.
• Response execution: The final stage where the selected response is translated into an observable action, such as a motor movement (e.g., pressing a button) or a verbal reply. The necessary motor programs are initiated and carried out.

​Hence, we can conclude that the right answer to this question is C,D, B, A

Exceptional children are those who deviate from the normal population and need special education services to meet their needs. It includes children who are gifted, backward, creative, learning disabled, etc.

• A gifted child is essentially exceptional and displays consistently remarkable performance in physical or cognitive aspects and exhibits superiority in general intelligence levels.
• These children have divergent thinking and are very curious in nature that's why sometimes the classroom seems monotonous to them because they grab things fastly than of their age-peers.

Key Points 

The characteristics of gifted students :​

• They can construct and handle the higher level of abstractions.
• They are independent in their judgments as they can follow complex directions easily and can handle more than one idea at a time.
• They have great intellectual curiosity, creativity, and imagination to create and investigate.
• They have a habit of asking truth-searching questions because they have a thirst for knowledge.
• They learn quickly and have the ability to abstract reasoning and see relationships between ideas and events.

Hint

• Gifted students are not independent of their teachers as they need their teachers for guidance and counseling and how they can utilize the best of their abilities.
• They are not introverts as mainly they show the extrovert type of behavior, i.e., they love to communicate, explore, and engage in activities.
• They are highly assertive about their needs as they are well aware of their needs and do like to work hard to fulfill them.

Thus, it is concluded that gifted students are independent in their judgments.

A reinforcer is any consequence that strengthens the behaviour it follows.

Partial reinforcement: here, we sometimes give reinforcement to the organism and sometimes not even after a correct response. 

REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES 

• when individuals are learning a new behaviour, they will learn it faster if they are reinforced for every correct response. This is a continuous reinforcement schedule.

Important Points

• On the other hand, when they mastered the new behaviour, they will maintain it best if they are reinforced intermittently rather than every time.
• Intermittent or Partial reinforcement schedules are more effective than continuous reinforcement.
• Thus, it helps students to maintain skills without expecting continuous reinforcement.
• During partial reinforcement, the organism does not know, how many responses, he will get reinforcement and hence they give their best every time.
• Announcement of bonus for employees by the companies on different occasions is an example of partial reinforcement which reflect better performance all the time.

Hence, we conclude that partial reinforcement is more effective than continuous reinforcement.

Impairment in a person's body is the condition in which a part of a person's mind or body is damaged or does not work properly. There are different types of impairment like visual impairment, intellectual disability, deaf impairment, physically impaired, etc.

Key PointsOrthopedic impairment is defined as a child's disability related to a bone, joint, or muscle that is severe enough to directly affect the child's educational performance.

• It can be caused by various factors including genetic abnormalities, missing limbs, brain injury, a birth disorders such as clubfoot (Club Foot is a birth defect in which baby is born with their feet pointing downward and inward due to shortened tendons ).
• Orthopedically impaired children are likely to have Dysgraphia. Dysgraphia is a writing disorder associated with impaired handwriting, orthographic coding, and finger sequencing (the movement of muscle to write).  Dysgraphia is a writing disability in which a person finds it hard to form letters or write within a defined space. It affects a person's handwriting ability. A person with Dysgraphia may exhibit difficulty with letter spacing, trouble thinking, and writing simultaneously.

​Hence, Orthopedically Impaired Children are likely to have Dysgraphia.

Additional Information 

Common Learning Disabilities:

• Dyscalculia:  Dyscalculia is a mathematical disability in which a person's ability to understand numbers and grasp math concepts is affected.
• Dyslexia: Dyslexia is a reading disorder in which a person is not able to read correctly.
• Dysthymia: Dysthymia is a mood disorder characterized by a chronic mildly depressed or irritable mood.
• Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: It actually refers to difficulties in decoding nonverbal behaviors or social clues. NVLD suffers struggle with understanding body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, or nonverbal aspects of communication.

Development can be defined as the change of shape, size, health, or change in psychology.

The development of human beings is divided into different stages: Infancy, Early childhood, Late Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood.

Adolescence (12-18 yrs):

• Physical development: Hormones play an important role in growth which leads to change in reproductive organs. Better motor and physical skills can be seen.
• Emotional development: It’s the age of ‘stress and storm’ because children are emotionally vulnerable at this stage. They may experience anxiety and concern about themselves.
• Social development: Children spend more time with peers, conversion with an opposite sexed person takes place.

Hence, adolescents may experience ​anxiety and concern about themselves.

Motor skills:-  A motor skill is a function, which involves the precise movement of muscles with the intent to perform a specific act.​​

Types of motor skills:-

• Gross motor skills are involved in the movement and coordination of the arms, legs, and other large body parts. They involve actions such as running, crawling, and swimming.
• Fine motor skills:- Fine motor skills refer to the small movements of the hands, wrists, fingers, feet, toes, lips, and tongue and they involve the coordination of smaller muscles. They involve actions such as drawing, writing, cycling, etc.
• By 5 or 6 years of age, children are ready to begin to coordinate fingers and hands in simple small muscle activities, such as writing, sewing, craftwork, etc. At this age, the fine motor skills that a child has are rudimentary. However, these improve as the child grows. From age 6 to 10, there is a progressive improvement in the attainment of these skills.
• There is a steady improvement in the acquisition of fine motor skills by the child as she grows.

Hence, we conclude that writing is an example of a fine motor skill.

Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist, believed that social interactions play a key role in development. According to him, learning occurs when children interact with people and the environment.

Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory of Learning:

• According to him, learning occurs when children interact with people and the environment.
• He believed that children learn best in the company of the More Knowledgeable Other (MKO) who can be a parent, a teacher, or even a peer.
• Adult assistance is provided wherever necessary which is called scaffolding.
• He stressed Collaborative problem solving wherein a group of peers work together to create meanings in new and unique ways is a part of the learning process.
• The focus needs to be more on collaborative assignments rather than individual ones. Such a process is mediated by the teacher with less focus on direct instruction.

Hence, from the above-mentioned points, it becomes clear that Vygotsky's theory implies 'collaborative problem solving'.

Language is a system of communication that is used to express thoughts, ideas and feelings. Language is a vital part of human connection. Humans are the only ones that have mastered cognitive language connection.

Key Points 

A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in language providing the foundation of language and can not be divided into smaller parts carrying meaning. It has relatively the same stable meaning in different verbal environments. The study of morphemes is called Morphology.  There are two types of morphemes- Free Morphemes and Bound Morphemes.

• Free Morphemes can stand alone with specific meanings. It can be formed independently. For example; happy, get, when, etc. All of them have individual meaning and are free morphemes.
• Free Morphemes can be categorized into two types: Lexical Morphemes and Grammatical / Functional Morphemes. 

1. Lexical Morphemes are those that are large in number and independently meaningful. It includes nouns, adjectives and verbs. Example; boy, bad etc.
2. Grammatical / Functional Morphemes consist of functional words in a language such as prepositions, pronouns, determiners, conjunctions. Example; but, on, and, above etc.

• Bound Morphemes do not have any independent meaning and can be formed with help of free morphemes. Example; un, pre, en, etc. Bound Morphemes can be categorized into two sub-classes: Bound Roots and Affixes.

1. Bound Roots have lexical meaning when included in other bound morphemes to form the content word. Example;- tain (retain, contain).
2. Affixes naturally attached different types of words and used them to change the meaning of those words. Example;-ing in reading, writing, sleeping.

​Hence, the smallest unit of meaning in language is morphemes.

Important Points

• Syntax:  Syntax is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
• Phoneme: Phoneme is the smallest unit of speech distinguishing one word from another, as the element 't' in a cat which separates that word from "can", "cab".
• Pragmatics: Pragmatics is the branch of linguistics, which is the study of language.

Intelligence is known as the ability to learn, the ability to deal with abstractions and to make adjustments to new situations. Several experiments have concluded that intelligence is the product of heredity and the environment.

• The measurement of intelligence involves the comparison and establishment of a relationship between CA (chronological age) and MA (mental age). This relationship is expressed by the term I.Q. (intelligence quotient).

Important Points

• I.Q. was introduced by the German psychologist William Stern which was widely spread by Terman.
• It can be calculated with the formula - ${\bf{Intelligence}};{\bf{Quotient}};\left( {{\bf{IQ}}} \right) = \frac{{{\bf{Mental}};{\bf{Age}};\left( {{\bf{MA}}} \right);}}{{{\bf{Chronological}};{\bf{Age}};\left( {{\bf{CA}}} \right)}} \times 100$
• The concept of I.Q. and scores on intelligence tests have been found useful in labeling the individual as gifted, average (normal), or subnormal (retarded).
• Chronological Age is the number of years a person has been alive.
• In the above question, IQ =75, CA=16, MA= Let assume this as "X".

                     ${\bf{75}};{\bf{}};\left( {{\bf{IQ}}} \right) = \frac{{{\bf{X}};{\bf{}};\left( {{\bf{MA}}} \right);}}{{{\bf{16}};{\bf{}};\left( {{\bf{CA}}} \right)}} \times 100$

                      = MA = (75 * 16 )/100

                      = 1200/100

                      = 12 Years.

Hence, it is clear that if a child of 16 years scores 75 on an IQ test then his mental age will be 12 years.

Additional Information 

• IQ Rating Scale:

IQ or Intelligence Quotient is the measure of a child ability to reason and solve problems. It is the test to measure human intelligence.

Key Points 

• IQ is correlated either directly or indirectly with problem-solving and educational performance.
• Academic performance is a multidimensional process and is related to intelligence, metacognition and problem-solving. Intelligence increases the learning ability and academic performance of a child means it influences academic achievement.
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ) can be obtained by the equation (MA/CA) * 100 = IQ, where MA is mental age and CA is chronological age.
• Mental Age is the measure of the intellectual level at which an individual functions; for example, someone described as having a mental age of 8 years would be functioning at the level of an average 8 years old.
• Chronological Age is the number of years a person has been alive.

Additional Information

Hence it is clear that IQ scores are generally highly correlated with academic performance.

Motivation is the drive to achieve something in life that satisfies one’s needs. There are two primary types of motivation namely, intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Motivation is the process that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviour. It is the process of stimulating people to action for accomplishing the goal.

Key Points 

Motivation is important because it allows to change behaviour, develop competencies, make plans, grow interested, develop talent etc. It helps in the self-development of people. Motivation helps to achieve goals. It is an important life skill. To achieve a goal, one needs to be motivated. Need for achievement, Level of aspiration and Anxiety are the examples of intrinsic motivation as it refers to the behaviour which focuses on:

• personal satisfaction and internal rewards.
• purposes to learn and improve to serve a cause.
• motivating individuals intrinsically to achieve goals.
• working for their own sake and inherent accomplishment.

Thus it is clear that personal satisfaction in meeting targets optimizes motivation to learn.

Multiple Intelligence represents different intellectual abilities and strengths, whereas learning styles are about how individuals perform a task. 

• The theory of multiple intelligences was first proposed by Howard Gardner in his 1983 book “Frames of Mind”, where he broadens the definition of intelligence and outlines several distinct types of intellectual competencies.
• Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences proposes that people are not born with all of the intelligence they will ever have. This theory challenged the traditional notion that there is one single type of intelligence, sometimes known as “g” for general intelligence, that only focuses on cognitive abilities.

Key Points 

At its core, it is the proposition that individuals have the potential to a combination of several bits of intelligence. MI consider the following intelligence:

• Linguistic
• Musical
• Logical-Mathematical
• Spatial
• Bodily-Kinesthetic
• Naturalist
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• The gardener does not propose emotional intelligence.

Hence it is clear that the theory of multiple intelligence implies above all given options except emotional intelligence as it is not related to IQ.

IQ, or Intelligence Quotient is the measure of a child ability to reason and solve problems. It is the test to measure human intelligence. Intelligence Quotient: It is commonly known as IQ refers to the score of a standardized test that assesses and measures human intelligence.

Key Points

• IQ is correlated either directly or indirectly with problem solving and educational performance..
• Socio-Economic level does not affect the IQ score.
• Intelligence Quotient (IQ) can be obtained by the equation (MA/CA) * 100 = IQ, where MA is mental age and CA is chronological age.
• Mental Age is the measure of the intellectual level at which an individual functions; for example, someone described as having a mental age of 8 years would be functioning at the level of an average 8 years old.
• Chronological Age is the number of years a person has been alive.

Additional Information

IQ Rating Scale:

Thus it is clear that intelligence do not have any direct co-relation with wealth and social level.

Assessing student’s performance is an integral part of the teaching-learning process. Assessment helps the teacher to modify and improve the teaching-learning process.

• It is used to determine the outcomes (what students have learned), process (the way they learned), and their approach to the learning before, during, or after the program or course.
• It is an important part of the teaching-learning process.

Key Points ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING:-, Assessment for learning is viewed as spiral and part of the learning process itself in which learners play a central role in evaluating their own progress. It is ongoing and individual process and helps the teacher to take decision on the level of understanding of the learner and plan teaching learning strategies accordingly.

• Assessment for learning supports teachers to focus on the learning styles of the learners and learning in individual classroom sessions.
• Assessment for learning helps the classroom processes and results into instructional interventions designed to increase and not merely monitor learning.
• Assessment for learning helps to use it as a tool to develop learner’s knowledge, understanding, skills and values which they are able to reflect in their behavior.
• It takes into account strengths, needs of students. It is the process of looking for and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get their. This is known as formative assessment.

Thus, it is concluded that Assessment for learning takes into account the following except the mistakes of the learner.

An empowering school is an educational institution that focuses on fostering an environment where students, teachers, and the broader school community feel valued, motivated, and supported to achieve their full potential. 

Key Points

Tendency to experiment:

• An empowering school values and promotes experimentation and innovation.
• Teachers who are willing to experiment with new teaching methods, approaches, and ideas contribute significantly to creating a dynamic and effective learning environment.
• This quality helps in adapting to new challenges and improving educational practices.

Hint

• Memory: While memory is important for retaining knowledge, it is not the most critical quality for fostering innovation and progress in an empowering school setting.
• Disciplined nature: Discipline is important for maintaining order and structure, but it alone does not drive the transformative and innovative practices that are essential for an empowering educational environment.
• Competitive aptitude: Competitive aptitude can motivate teachers, but it does not necessarily foster a collaborative and innovative atmosphere.

Hence, the correct answer is tendency to experiment.

A good teacher is a transmitter of knowledge and a facilitator of effective learning. He plays a key role in the cognitive, emotional, social and physical development of a student. 

Key Points

• All students are the same in the eyes of a teacher. He neither discriminates against any of his students. Instead, he motivates them to learn and attain their objective.
• He is not only the supporting pillar for a student but also counsel him and shows him the direction during important decision-making of his life and profession.
• He has mastery of his subject and uses different teaching methods and techniques to simplify topics for a better understanding of students.
• He evaluates the performance of a student fairly and helps him to improve and shine.
• He does not believe in favouritism. Also, he helps students to develop their skills and ability.
• He helps students to find solutions and in case the students commit any mistake, he rectifies the error instead of neglecting it.
• In this question, Monika being a Maths teacher asks a question to one student named Radhika but Radhika is not able to answer so Monika quickly moves to Mohan and asks another question.
• Also when she finds Mohan is not able to answer she rewords the question. She could have done the same for Radhika when she was not able to answer her question. It shows she is favouring Mohan over Radhika. This behavior of Monika reflects that she is supporting gender stereotyping.

Hence, it is concluded that Monika is supporting gender stereotyping of roles by favouring Mohan.

Additional Information

• Gender Stereotype refers to passing judgements and creating biases about characteristics and traits of a particular gender.
• A teacher's main motive behind asking a question is to evaluate the learning outcome rather than embarrassing a student.
• A good teacher never demotivates any student or creates an embarrassing situation for him. Instead, he works as a driving force for the student by giving them tips or hints and encouraging them to try to answer.
• A teacher has to be confident and keep patience instead of being nervous or impatient. He must have confidence in what he teaches and questions.

The best way to avoid gender discrimination in a school may be Metacognition of their gender-biased behaviors by teachers.

Key Points

• Metacognition refers to higher-order thinking that involves active control over the cognitive processes engaged in learning. It is an increasingly useful mechanism to enhance student learning, both for immediate outcomes and for helping students to understand their learning processes.
• Activities such as planning how to approach a given learning task, monitoring comprehension, and evaluating progress toward the completion of a task are metacognitive.
• Gender bias is behavior that shows favoritism toward one gender over another.
• Teachers play a critical role to prevent gender stereotypes and reduce gender bias in the classroom.
• The best way to avoid gender discrimination in a school may be metacognition of their gender-biased behaviors by teachers as metacognition refers to an individual's awareness of his/her cognition and knowledge. Teachers need to understand their gender-biased behaviors toward students. So, that they can remove those gender-biased behaviors or activities.

Additional Information

• The selection of more boys than girls for a music competition is also a gender-biased activity. To avoid gender discrimination teachers have to give equal importance to both girls and boys. So, the selection of more boys than girls for a music competition is not the correct way to avoid gender discrimination in a school.
• Recruitment of an equal number of male and female teachers can create a gender-equal workplace for teachers. But that has no connection with students if gender biasness prevails in the classroom.
• The formation of a rule to shun gender discrimination in the school and enforce it strictly might not work if their mindset is not changed. So, it is very important to understand the reason behind their gender-biased activity. Teachers have to take responsibility to remove gender-biased activity from school.

So, we can conclude that teachers play a critical role to prevent gender stereotypes and reduce gender bias in the classroom. The best way to avoid gender discrimination in a school may be Metacognition of the gender-biased behaviors by teachers.

The socially disadvantaged child is one who is from a socially and economically backward section of the community, who cannot profit from school because of deprivation of one sort or another. Such children show cumulative academic deficits, a high dropout rate, and a progressive decline in intellectual functioning. 

Key Points

Strategies to cater to the needs of a socially disadvantaged child:

• Such a child has characteristics like backwardness, frustration, aggression delinquency, inferiority complex, alienation, and lack of motivation.
• A teacher should try to find out more about them and involve them in class discussions.
• Interest in learning has to be, created by the teacher, effort should be towards developing self-confidence, self-respect, and a sense of cultural identity.
• The curriculum should be specific and related to the needs and real-life experiences.
• Emphasis should be on learning manual skills, life skills, and technical efficiency.
• Measures like increasing the access of schools to children either by opening new schools, providing residential facilities to them, or opting for open learning systems (open school, non-formal education centres) may be used for socially disadvantaged children.

Thus from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that opening residential schools would be the most appropriate way to encourage disadvantaged children to attend school regularly.

The differently-abled children are taught in inclusion with the normal class to prepare them for integration into ordinary schools or society and to meet their psychological needs for security, love, affection, acceptance, and success. 

• An inclusive classroom involves teaching all types of students together in a natural environment such as gifted, average, slow-learners, and differently-abled children.

Key Points

Successful inclusion:

• Inclusive Education is an approach to educate all children who are at risk for neglect in the education system.
• It expects that all learners learn together through access to common educational provisions.
• To successfully merge the normal children with differently-abled children, the involvement of parents plays a very crucial and significant role.
• As the parents are very well aware of the level of disability of their children and they can make the teacher well-aware of it as well.
• There is a very big need to make the other normal children of the class sensitize i.e., to understand and sense the pain and difficulties of differently-abled children so that they can accept them and as well as help them.
• Also, capacity building should be focused as to spread awareness about the differently-abled children, increasing the physical pieces of equipment and assistance devices, and training to the professionals to handle diversities in the classroom.

Hint

• Inclusive education tends to bring unity in the classroom irrespective of the existing differences among learners. Segregation is not required in inclusion as it means to divide the classroom in context to their religion, economic condition, caste, etc.

Hence, it is concluded that successful inclusion requires the following except segregation.

Continuous and comprehensive evaluation ensures that holistic development has taken place in learners, you have to adopt the approach of holistic assessment, which includes assessment of cognitive abilities as well as co-cognitive abilities. 

• The development of cognitive and co-cognitive abilities takes place through the organization of various activities in scholastic and co-scholastic areas.
• The conventional evaluation system has been giving more stress on evaluating children’s abilities in scholastic areas whereas the behavioral outcomes in co-scholastic areas receive less importance. This has hindered the achievement of the objective of the holistic development of learners.
• A continuous comprehensive evaluation is being, of late, emphasized to achieve the objective of holistic development of learners at the school level.

• The continuous and comprehensive evaluation states that to cater to the individual need, the school should up-scaling performance in the scholastic areas on the basis of performance in co-scholastic areas.
• In CCE, student’s performance in both scholastic and co-scholastic activities is assessed. CCE aims to reduce the curricular workload on students and to improve the overall abilities and skills of students by means of evaluation of student's performance in both types of activities with respect to individual differences.
• Overall performance of a candidate is based on the achievement in the Scholastic Areas as well as Co-Scholastic Areas and Co-Curricular Activities.
• Balanced and integrated emphasis on scholastic and co-scholastic areas is essential for enriching and enhancing the learning experiences of students.

Hence, we can conclude that the up-scaling of performance in the scholastic areas on the basis of performance in co-scholastic areas can be justified as it caters to individual differences.

Portfolios come in many forms, from notebooks filled with documents, notes, and graphics to online digital archives and student-created websites, and they may be used at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Important PointsPortfolios can be a physical collection of student work that includes materials such as written assignments, journal entries, completed tests, artwork, lab reports, physical projects (such as dioramas or models), and other material evidence of learning progress and academic accomplishment, including awards, honors, certifications, recommendations, written evaluations by teachers or peers, and self-reflections written by students.

Portfolios helps to:

• helping students with goal setting
• guiding self-reflection for students
• helps to increase home/school communication
• the provide a compact profile of what a student can do
• assists with report card writing
• great to use during parent/teacher interviews

Key Points 

• While selecting material for the portfolio of students: the inclusion of students should be there.
• Student portfolios are most effective when they are used to evaluate student learning progress and achievement.
• When portfolios are used to document and evaluate the knowledge, skills, and work habits students acquire in school, teachers can use them to adapt instructional strategies when evidence shows that students either are or are not learning what they were taught.

Additional Information

• Portfolios can encourage students to take more ownership and responsibility for the learning process.
• Portfolios can improve communication between teachers and parents. But, they are not the content of a student's portfolio.

So, While selecting material for the portfolio of students: inclusion of students should be there.

Key PointsAn interdisciplinary approach involves drawing appropriately from several disciplines to redefine problems outside of normal boundaries and reach solutions based on a new understanding of complex situations.

An example of an Interdisciplinary approach is:

Important Points 

Features of Interdisciplinary Instructions:

• Interdisciplinary instruction helps students develop their cognitive abilities - brain-based skills and mental processes that are needed to carry out tasks.
• The interdisciplinary approach to teaching allows students to study one subject from multiple perspectives.
• It will enable students to think outside the box and challenge their preconceived notions by exploring ideas and concepts in more than one way.
• Interdisciplinary instruction helps to support ethical analysis.
• Develop different or multiple perspectives, points of view, and values.
• Enhance their decision-making skills and the ability to synthesize knowledge.
• Improve their ability to identify, assess, and communicate important information.
• Foster collaboration skills and are more likely to develop a positive attitude toward learning.

So,  The greatest advantage of interdisciplinary instruction is that students are given opportunities to generalize and apply newly learned knowledge in multiple contexts.

Additional InformationBelow mentioned are not advantages of interdisciplinary instruction.

• students are less likely to develop a dislike for particular topics of different subjects areas.
• teachers are permitted greater flexibility in planning lessons and activities.
• teachers are less likely to feel overwhelmed by the multiplicity of topics needed to be addressed in a traditional curriculum.

The method of problem-solving is a method of thinking, analyzing, and learning how to find the answer to a question or problem using known ideas. Learning through problem-solving is a progression from known ideas to unknown ideas. from old ideas to new ideas and from the simple to the complex. Problem-solving essentially results in an increased ability to think and generate ideas.

A teacher can make problem-solving fun for students by: 

• Providing endless opportunities for developing creative ideas.
• Providing open-ended material for the application of known ideas in new situations.
• For the analysis of the method of problem-solving.
• Providing time for free play.

Hence, we can conclude that expecting perfection from the students while they are trying to do things by themselves is not a motive for developing problem-solving skills among students.

Mastery orientation is defined as having the goal of learning and mastering the task according to self-set standards. The learner is focused on developing new skills, improving, and acquiring additional knowledge.

Key PointsAchievement orientation refers to how an individual interprets and reacts to tasks, resulting in different patterns of cognition, affect, and behavior.

More recent conceptualizations of achievement orientation have added elements. The traditional mastery and performance orientations are broken down to include approach and avoidance components, resulting in four distinct achievement profiles: mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance.

1. A mastery-approach orientation describes individuals who are focused on learning as much as possible, overcoming challenges through hard work, or increasing their competence at a task.
2. A mastery-avoidance orientation describes individuals who want to avoid doing worse than they have done before or failing to learn as much as possible.
3. A performance-approach orientation describes individuals who want to demonstrate and prove to others their high ability.
4. A performance-avoidance orientation describes individuals who strive to avoid looking incompetent, or less able than their peers by cultivating an appearance of effortless achievement.

So, Learners who demonstrate an earnest desire for increased knowledge and academic competence are said to have a mastery orientation.

 Important Points

• Mastery orientation is characterized by the belief that success is the result of effort and the use of the appropriate strategies.
• Mastery-oriented individuals strive to develop their understanding and competence at a task by exerting a high level of effort.
• Across numerous studies, mastery orientation has been shown to promote adaptive patterns of learning, which ultimately lead to high academic achievement and adjustment.
• The characteristics of mastery-oriented learners, one quality that seems to stand out is their willingness to take risks and learn from their mistakes.

Additional Information

• Social learning theory (Bandura, 1985) focuses on the tendency we have to model our behavior on those around us.
• When the instructor models a mastery orientation, students are more likely to adopt it. What does this mean? It means that instructors need to show that when we make mistakes, we handle them in a way that causes us to learn from them rather than trying to hide or avoid them.
• Students need to see strategies that involve successfully coping with failure so that they can have a way to cope with their failures. Once you know how to handle failure successfully, you are less likely to fear it.

Mastery orientation is defined as having the goal of learning and mastering the task according to self-set standards. So, Learners who demonstrate an earnest desire for increased knowledge and academic competence are said to have a mastery orientation.​

A good teacher is a transmitter of knowledge and a facilitator of effective learning. He plays a crucial role in the cognitive, emotional, social, and physical development of a student. 

• All students are the same in the eyes of a good teacher. He neither discriminates nor demotivates any of his students instead, he motivates them to learn together and attain pre-defined goals of learning.

Key Points

• A place for education- school and colleges are worshipped because they are considered pious places. Everyone should be seen equally from the eyes of a teacher. But discrimination also persists in schools and institutions.
• Students face discrimination on the basis of color, race, gender, country, culture, and caste which should be suppressed.
• A good teacher should not practice discrimination to install a positive environment in a primary class.
• But the same goals can not be set for every child in the classroom as each child is different from others in terms of their interest, capabilities, attitudes, aptitude, and cognitive skills, etc.
• Narrating stories with positive endings giving morals will definitely help in creating a positive environment in the primary class as they will listen to the story with interest and make them able to understand the meaning in-depth that will make them positive.
• Wishing each child in the morning will help them to develop a habit of greeting each other in the morning with love and happiness but not be very much helpful in installing a positive environment in a primary class.
• Sociometry is the most useful step for studying relationships among students. So, allowing students to make groups on their own on the basis of sociometry during group activities will not help much in bringing positivity to the primary level classroom. 
• As the students will choose their friends or the individual they like the most due to which there is a possibility that some students may be left alone which will bring negativity to them as they will be feeling inferior to others.

Thus, it is concluded that a teacher should narrate stories with positive endings in order to install a positive environment in the primary class.

Key points 

• Children learn from their family because,  every time they are seeing and observing their family members which child tries to copy them and learn.
• Home is the first school of a child and family-centered practice is a key component of early childhood.
• It is the family that is considered as the first school of students.
• The theme of my family helps any student to take home as a school to learn good values in life.
• A child first interacts with his/her family. So, the primary interaction of a child is the members of his/her family.
• Socialization of a child starts with family. My neighborhood or My school or My best friend all are secondary points of interaction in a child's life.

The family would be the best first theme to start within a nursery class. As the student first interacts with his/her family.

An error is an incorrect form and a sure indication that the learner has not mastered the core of the selective topic in a learning process.

• The errors are an important part of the learning process that can be the difference between the correct response and the answered one.

Key Points 

• NCF-2005 also states that the errors of children should not be corrected until they are ready to do so.
• It means that the errors can be corrected by the children themselves. So, a teacher should not immediately correct them.
• If a teacher is not able to correct all errors in the classroom it indicates that maybe he failed to recognize them or the children require remediation i.e., the same concept should be taught repeatedly with a different approach to help the children understand.
• A teacher should notice every error made by children so that he can help the children in the correction of their errors.
• It is not that if the teacher notices every error, he will not be able to cover the syllabus on time because making children understand the concepts contextually is more important than to just cover the syllabus.
• It is important to correct every error made by children whether it is time taking or tiresome for the teacher because it is the responsibility of the teacher to help children learn concepts in a correct way.

Hence, it is clear that errors can be corrected by children themselves and a teacher should not immediately correct them.

Problem-solving is the act of defining a problem; determining the cause of the problem; identifying, prioritizing, and selecting alternatives for a solution; and implementing a solution.

• Before problem-solving can occur, it is important to first understand the exact nature of the problem itself.
• If your understanding of the issue is faulty, your attempts to resolve it will also be incorrect or flawed.
• Solutions found through insight are often more accurate than those found through step-by-step analysis.
• In a problem-solving method, children learn by working on problems.
• This enables the students to learn new knowledge by facing the problems to be solved.
• This method develops scientific process skills.
• This method helps in developing a brainstorming approach to learning concepts.

Key Points Objectives of Problem-Solving

1. The hallmark of the problem-solving approach is there is an implicit hint given in the problem statement.
2. Willingness to try problems and improve their perseverance when solving problems.
3. Improve pupils’ self-concepts concerning the abilities to solve problems.
4. Make pupils aware of the problem-solving strategies.
5. Make pupils aware that many problems can be solved in more than one way.
6. Improve pupils’ abilities to select appropriate solution strategies.
7. Improve pupils’ abilities to implement solution strategies accurately.
8. Improve pupils’ abilities to get more correct answers to problems
9. The appreciation of the existence of problems and a desire to solve it
10. The accumulation of the facts and data which are pertinent to the problem.
11. Logical interpretation of the data supported by adequate valid experience.

Additional Information

• In the problem-solving approach, it is not true that the problem is based on only one principle/topic and Many problems can be solved in more than one way. So, there is usually more than one approach for getting the right answer. Solutions to these problems are usually situation or context-specific, so, the problem might not be original.

So, a problem-solving approach is a technique people use to better understand the problems they face and to develop optimal solutions and the hallmark of the problem-solving approach is there is an implicit hint given in the problem statement.

Concept used:

Place Value: It is the position of the digit. For example, in the digit 789, 9 is at the unit place, 8 is at the ten's place and 7 is at the 100's place. It means that we can write 789 = 700 + 80 + 9

Calculation:

Our number is 2424

The place value of the first 2 in 2424 = 2 × 1000 = 2000

The place value of second 2 in 2424 = 2 × 10 = 20

Sum = 2000 + 20 = 2020

Given:

12 and 16

10 and 15

Concept used:

Smallest Common Multiple is the Least Common Multiple

Calculations:

Expressing 12 and 16 in the form of prime factors,

12 = 2² × 3

16 = 2⁴

LCM of 12 and 16 = 2⁴ × 3

⇒ 16 × 3

⇒ 48

Expressing 10 and 15 in the form of prime factors,

10 = 2 × 5

15 = 3 × 5

LCM of 10 and 15 = 2 × 3 × 5

⇒ 30

Product of (LCM of 12 and 16) and (LCM of 10 and 15) = 48 × 30

⇒ 1440

∴ (Smallest common multiple of 12 and 16) × (Smallest common multiple of 10 and 15) is equal to 1440

Calculation:

Let x be added to the product 140 × 101 to get 14414

Now, (140 × 101) + x = 14414

⇒ 140(100 + 1) + x = 14414

⇒ 14000 + 140 + x = 14414

⇒ 14140 + x = 14414

⇒ x = 14414 - 14140

⇒ x = 274

Given:

Number = 100

Formula Used:

The sum of all the factors of a^m × bⁿ is (a0 + a1 +......+ a^m) × (b0 + b1 +............+ bⁿ)

Calculation:

Factors of 100 = 2² × 5²

Sum of factors = (2⁰ + 2¹ + 2²) × (5⁰ + 5¹ + 5²)

⇒ (1 + 2 + 4) × (1 + 5 + 25)

⇒ 7 × 31

⇒ 217

∴ The sum of all factors of 100 is 217.

Given:

6:14 a.m. to 8:02 p.m.

Detailed solution:

Total hours from 6:14 a.m. to 6:14 p.m. = 12 hours

Total hours from 6:14 p.m. to 8:02 p.m. = 1:48

⇒ 1 hour 48 minutes

Total number of hours and minutes = 12 hours + 1 hour 48 minutes

⇒ 13 hours 48 minutes

∴ Number of hours and minutes from 6:14 a.m. to 8:02 p.m. on the same day is 13 hours 48 minutes

Calculation:

Total number of 1/6 are there in 2/3 = (2/3) ÷ (1/6)

⇒ (2/3) × 6 

⇒ 4

Remainder = 4

Concept used:

Rs 1 = 100 Paisa 

1 dozen = 12 articles 

1 Litre = 1000 millimetre 

1 metre = 100 centimetre 

1 metre = 1000 millimetre 

1 centimetre = 10 millimetre 

Calculation:

Rs 1 = 100 Paisa 

1 paisa = Rs 1/100 = Rs 0.01

So option 1 is correct

1 dozen = 12 articles 

One and half dozen = (3/2) × 12 = 18

So option 2 is correct

1 centimetre = 10 millimetre 

⇒ 1 millimetre = (1/10) centimetre = 0.1 centimetre 

So option 3 is correct

3 litres 30 millilitres = (3 × 1000 + 30) millilitres 

⇒ 3030 millilitres 

∴ So option 4 is not correct

Given: 

Chocolate has 12 equal pieces.

Anju was given (1/4)th chocolate.

Sujata was given (1/3)rd chocolate.

Fiza was given (1/6)th chocolate.

Calculation:

According to the question,

Number of pieces of chocolate left with Manju

= 12 - {(1/4) + (1/3) + (1/6)} × 12

⇒ 12 - {(3 + 4 + 2)/12} × 12

⇒ 12 - 9

⇒ 3 chocolates

∴ The number of pieces of chocolate left with Manju is 3.

Given:

The cost of one orange = Rs 2.50

Concept:

1 Dozen = 12 articles 

Calculation:

Total number of orange = three and a half dozen = 3 × 12 + 12/2 = 36 + 6 = 42

The cost of 42 oranges = 42 × 2.50

⇒ 105

∴ The cost of three and a half dozen oranges is Rs 105

Given:

Side of floor of square room = 10 m

Length of each square tile = 50 cm

Formula used:

Area of square = (Side of square)²

Calculations:

Let the number of tiles needed to be n

Area of square room = Number of tiles × Area of each tile

⇒ 1000 × 1000 = n × 50 × 50

⇒ n = 20 × 20

⇒ n = 400

∴ The number of tiles needed is 400

Additional Information

1 meter = 100 cm

1 meter² = 10000 cm²

Given:

Perimeter of first square = 12 cm

Perimeter of second square = 24 cm

Concept used:

Side of bigger square ∶ Side of smaller square = Perimeter of bigger square ∶ Perimeter of smaller square

Calculations:

Side of bigger square ∶ Side of smaller square = 24 ∶ 12

⇒ 2 ∶ 1

Area of bigger square ∶ Area of smaller square = 2² ∶ 1² 

⇒ 4 ∶ 1

Area of bigger square = 4 × Area of smaller square 

∴ The area of bigger square is 4 times the area of smaller square

Given:

Length of rectangular box = 10 cm

Breadth of rectangular box = 8 cm

Hight of rectangular box = 6 cm

Formula used:

Volume of rectangular box = l × b × h

Calculation:

Volume of rectangular box = 10 × 8 × 6 = 480 cm³

According to the question,

⇒ Required boxes = 6240/480

 ⇒ Required boxes = 13

∴ 13 boxes are needed to pack 6240 cm³.

Concept used:

Right angle = 90° 

Calculation:

According to the question

Number of degrees in four and one - third right angles = [4 + (1/3)] × 90° 

⇒ (13/3) × 90° 

⇒ 13 × 30° 

⇒ 390° 

∴ The number of degrees is 390°.

Given:

Side of each square = 1 cm

Formula used:

Area of triangle = 1/2 × Base × Height

Calculations:

The shaded part of the above figure is given below,

We can divide the shaded part in ΔABC and ΔBCD,

AB = 3 cm, BC = 4 cm

Height of ΔBCD = 2 cm

Area of ΔABC = (1/2) × AB × BC

⇒ (1/2) × 3 × 4

⇒ 6 cm²

Area of ΔBCD = (1/2) × BC × Height of ΔBCD

⇒ (1/2) × 4 × 2

⇒ 4 cm²

Area of the shaded part = Area of ΔABC + Area of ΔBCD

⇒ 6 + 4

⇒ 10 cm²

∴ The area of the shaded part is 10 cm2

Mathematics is a branch of science that deals with counting, calculating, and studying numbers, shapes, and structures. The student learns the development the mathematics in the specified learning phases, through which the child gradually builds mathematical thinking.

Key Points

• Shailja is at the quantifying phase of the numbers because she is trying to understand the significance of the number at the end of the counting process does not change with the rearrangement of the collection or the counting strategy.  For example, 4= 2+2 and 4= 1+3
• They interpret small numbers as compositions of other numbers.
• Also, as a result, they develop the idea that constructing fair shares requires splitting the whole into equal parts without changing the total quantity and so begin to see the part-whole relations that link sharing and fractions.

Hence, it can be concluded that**, in the given problem, the development phase is the quantifying phase.**

Hint

• Partitioning phase: In this stage, a child divides a problem into small parts and then solves it. This makes understanding the thing easy. As, 152 can be partitioned as, 100 + 5 + 2
• Factoring Phase: Factoring complex numbers into simple.
• Operating Phase: In this phase, the students are able to perform basic operations on whole numbers, fractions, and decimal numbers.

Mathematics includes complex calculations, the study of patterns, shapes, and various geometrical figures. To develop a liking towards mathematics, the teacher should need to use innovative ideas to teach abstractions of mathematics. Learning place value is foundational skill children need to be successful in math.

Key PointsIn the given problem, if a child of Class III reads 482 as four hundred eighty-two but writes it as 40082 means the child has not established a sense of place value. The place value of a number is the value represented by a digit in a number based on its position in the number.

• Instead of teaching the concept of place value using questions given in the textbook only, the teacher should involve the students in play activities that are relatable to real-world and are focused on the concept of place value i.e., use of money in daily life (10 represents 10 rupees whereas 1 represents only 1 rupee coin and 100 on a banknote denotes 100 rupees).
• This will compel students to think that a specific position of a number says a lot about its position that is its place value.

Hence, it can be concluded that the child is a careful listener but has not established a sense of place value.

Number system - A number system is a writing system for expressing numbers; i.e., a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or other symbols in a consistent manner. The number the numeral represents is called its value.

The value of any digit in a number can be determined by:

• The digit
• Its position in the number
• The base of the number system

Important Points

• Here, the teacher is forming concepts with an understanding of the place value system.
• Algorithm - An algorithm is a procedure or formula for solving a problem, based on conducting a sequence of specified actions. An algorithm usually means a small procedure that solves a recurrent problem. The algorithm is used by the teacher as she uses tally marks to show that smaller numbers can be subtracted from the larger number.
• Operation - A mathematical process. The most common are add, subtract, multiply and divide (+, −, ×, ÷). But there are many more, such as squaring, square root, logarithms, etc Here the teacher is operating subtraction on numbers under each column of place value.

Here, according to the steps followed by the teacher option 4 is the correct choice.

The teaching-learning activities of a classroom mainly depend on the actions taken by the teacher. The teacher conducts various activities in a teaching-learning process to facilitate the students' learning experiences.

• The teacher needs to check the performance or the level of learning of students so that the learning can be facilitated in better ways.
• To monitor the learning of students, the teacher keeps evaluating the performance of learners by asking them questions about the learned concepts.

Key Points

• CLOSED problems are well-structured problems in terms of clearly formulated tasks where the one correct answer can always be determined in some fixed ways from the necessary data given in the problem situation.  For example, if a student understands the single-digit process in adding 2 plus 2 to make 4, she most likely will be able to solve a problem that asks her to add 1 plus 1.
• Open-ended or loosely structured problems, on the other hand, are those with many or unknown solutions rather than one correct answer. These types of problems require the ability to apply a variety of strategies and knowledge to find a solution. Open-ended questions are developed to prompt learners to apply concepts, solve problems, and make mathematical connections. No routine or prescribed methods are given for responding to open questions. Therefore, it makes teachers able to observe the strategies, skills, logic, concepts, and connections used by the learners to solve the questions. Similarly, when two numbers are multiplied and given product is 24 is a open-ended questions as it has a various number of answers.

Hence, it can be concluded that it is an open-ended question.

Key Points

• Contextualized curriculum helps students learn language skills by teaching the skills using the authentic contexts in which students must use those skills in the real world.
• Encouraging the students to talk about fractions and use the vocabulary will help them understand some of the difficult vocabulary associated with fractions.
• The questions should show the students how important the correct vocabulary is so that everyone knows what is being referred to. It is important about drawing attention to how words are used. Then focus on getting your students talking.
• The more the students use the words themselves, the more they will build their understanding of fractions. In the given problem, both are of the same type or method is used, but the language makes the difference and students get confused and unable to relate it with the real problem.
• Contextualization is one of the keys to engaging the students in the teaching-learning process wherein the students can relate their situations to their lesson.

In the given problem, it can be concluded that operations on fractions are taught without contextualization and language support.

The teaching-learning activities of a classroom mainly depend on the actions taken by the teacher. The teacher conducts various activities in a teaching-learning process to facilitate the students' learning experiences.

• The teacher needs to check the performance or the level of learning of students so that the learning can be facilitated in better ways.
• To monitor the learning of students, the teacher keeps evaluating the performance of learners by asking them questions about the learned concepts.

Key Points

In the set of Questions she wants to observe that if both the divisor and the divided are increased or decreased by a power of 10, the quotient remains the same.  

In the given problem,

• 21 ÷ 7 = 3
• 2.1 ÷ 0.7 = 3
• 0.21 ÷ 0.07 = 3
• 0.021 ÷ 0.007 = 3

it is observed that on dividing, the quotient remains the same.

Thus it is clear that if both the divisor and the divided are increased or decreased by a power of 10, the quotient remains the same.

Key Points

• Piaget believed that children construct an understanding of the world around them, experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment, then adjust their ideas accordingly.
• By using Piaget’s theory in the classroom, teachers and students benefit in several ways. Teachers develop a better understanding of their students’ thinking. They can also align their teaching strategies with their student's cognitive levels. Their goal is to help the individual construct knowledge.
• In order for students to develop their conservation of constancy skills, teachers must provide their students with opportunities to recognize similarities and differences at both the physical and abstract levels.
• Group Project and Group Discussion play an important part to enhance the learning skills of the students and it is useful to construct their own knowledge by imparting their own views through group discussions. Group Projects can also help to express their own creative and imaginative ideas.

Hence, it can be concluded that Piaget believed that learning results from social instruction and a mathematical teacher believing in Piaget's theory shall use group projects and group discussion.

Rulers, measuring tapes, meter sticks and yardsticks can be used to measure the length of objects. A teacher must have these tools while teaching the concept of length in the classroom.

Key Points

• Even a broken ruler can be used to measure the length of a line segment if it is long enough and the markings are visible. In the given diagram, the initial marking is not visible but it is obvious that it started from one. Thus answer to measure 5 cm is correct as he highly pointed out the mark of 5 cm on the ruler.
• Such as measurement of the length by using hand-spans of learners and showing them why the length is different as the size of their hand-spans varies. So, to measure accurately and irrespective of the size of hand-spans, we use a scale or ruler to measure the length of an object.

Thus it is clear that the answer of the student is correct as he rightly pointed out the mark of 5 cm on the ruler.

Hint

• he is showing a point only and not the distance between two points marked as 0 and 5 - the ruler is just a tool to measure the length. The points mentioned in the ruler are signifying each and every point. 5 cm does not mean the length here in question 5 cm means the point where the 5 is located.
• the ruler is broken and he must start with 2 and should point at 7 as the desired mark the boy is not asking for the measurement of length. he is asking for the location of 5.

Mathematics includes all branches of knowledge and all walks of life as it occupies an important place in all civilizations, past, and present, throughout the world.

• The teaching of mathematics should be done to promote the practical usability of mathematics and to minimize the error performed by children while using mathematical operations.

Key Points

Mathematical errors:

• The mathematical errors are the learning errors that children made while learning the concepts due to the lack of attention, clarity, and wrong calculations that lead them to the wrong response.
• Attention is a basic need for all types of learning. Attention is an important part of learning. Every moment, an individual is attracted by many stimuli of the environment.  Personal attention is important in the teaching-learning process because Children have different growth rates and they learn in different ways.  In the given problem, Uma needs personal attention to understand the concept easily. Sometimes, it becomes difficult for a child to grab concepts in a systematic way. A practical approach with personal attention can increase interest to gain concepts.

​Thus it is clear that Uma needs personal attention.

Important PointsOdd Number: Odd Numbers are the whole numbers that cannot be divided into exact pairs.

Example: 1,3,5,7,......

Even Number: Even Numbers are numbers that can be exactly divided by 2. Even Numbers always end up with the last digit 0,2,4,6,8.

Rubrics: A rubric for assessment refers to a set of criteria used to assess a student's performance.

Key Points

• A rubric is a set of scoring guidelines for evaluating students' work. These may include descriptive details of the work, which depends on the feasibility of users available time, nature of task etc. For example: If children use them their abilities need to be taken care of while creating and using them.
• Rubrics are also categorized based on different aspects: assessment criterion and performance task.
• Rubrics help improve teaching, contribute to sound assessment and serve as a source of information for improvement. For students, it serves as the guide for the self-assessment of their performance.
• Rubrics of assessment for the geometry lesson on points and lines in Class IV shall be can differentiate between line and line segment, can mark a point, can draw a line segment of given length accurately and this is a great way to assess your student's knowledge of points, line, shapes and angles.

Thus it is clear that the Rubrics of assessment for the geometry lesson on points and lines in class IV shall be can differentiate between line and line segment, can mark a point, can draw a line segment of a given length accurately.

Mathematics is the study of patterns, numbers, geometrical objects, data, and information. It deals with data analysis, integration of various fields of knowledge, involves proofs, deductive and inductive reasoning, and generalizations.

• It involves the mathematization of thoughts that develops through mathematical reasoning which consists of abstract statements and their proofs.
• In mathematics teaching, teachers should focus more on providing practical exercises and abstract knowledge to students to foster their individualized discovery-oriented learning.

Key Points

• The teacher's objective is to help the students to understand quadrilateral from different perspectives. There are different types of Quadrilateral and each quadrilateral have its own properties based on angle, sides and diagonals.
• Students will determine the similarities and differences between quadrilaterals by looking at their side, angle, and diagonal measures and also Students will discover the properties of the special quadrilaterals in different ways.

Hence, in a class, a teacher asked the students to define a quadrilateral in different ways - using sides, using angles, using diagonals etc. with the objective to understand quadrilateral from different perspectives.

The Van Hiele's levels originated in 1957 given by Pierre Van Hiele and his wife from the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. It helped in shaping the curriculum throughout the world that especially influenced the learning of geometry at a large level.

• It provides an insight to the teacher about how the students learn geometry at different levels.
• It described how the students learn at each level and pass to another level.

Key Points

• The Van Hiele levels are described below:

Hence, it is concluded that in the above case, students according to Van Hiele thought are at "informal deduction level."

Assessment in a classroom is required to assess the performance of learners. It helps a teacher to become aware of the learning outcomes of the learners, how they learn, what they have learned, and where they require improvement.

• Asking questions in a classroom is also a form of assessment. The teacher usually asks different types of questions to the students in a class to assess their level of achievements in learning.

Key Points

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) based questions

• These types of questions are usually asked to make the learners think "out of the box" i.e., divergently.
• These types of questions can not be answered through simple ways such as recalling the knowledge.
• To answer these, the students must need to think creatively, critically, and logically.
• Only the knowledge is not enough to answer these types of questions, but the students have to put some effort from their cognitive level.
• The teacher needs to encourage the students to think beyond the normal level and to analyze the information, data, and knowledge.

Hence, it is concluded that the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) based questions demand knowledge and some degree of cognitive effort.

Mathematics is a subject that is present everywhere and all the basic things or tasks that are required to be done in daily life need mathematical knowledge and skills. It usually studies the different types of shapes, patterns, geometrical objects, and data.

• It helps to understand the world around us by exploring the hidden patterns in a systematic and organized manner as it has universal applicability.

Key Points

Data handling:

• It is a process of dealing with data, gathering and analyzing the data, and presenting it in an effective and as well as organized manner.
• After teaching, the teacher started asking the problems on drawing inference from the given data to assess the acquired knowledge of students so that their contextual understanding can be measured.
• The most appropriate formative task (given in between the learning process) to assess the understanding of data analysis among students is a survey-based project.
• A survey-based Project comprises a set of questions about a particular topic that is being answered by the people by doing surveys.
• These types of surveys are conducted to gather, observe, and analyze detailed information or data related to the concerned topic or subject.
• In this type of project, a teacher will be able to assess the understanding of students about "data analysis".

Hint

Therefore, it is concluded that the survey-based projects can be used to assess the students' understanding of data analysis.

The student's learning pace or performance level gets highly influenced by the teacher's activities. The teacher conducts various activities in a teaching-learning process to facilitate the students' learning experiences. The environment of the class must be democratic and student-centered.

Key Points

Discussion

• It is an open-ended exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge where the teacher gives a topic of general discussion to students so that they can share their ideas.
• It ensures the maximum participation of students in the teaching-learning process.
• In class V, the teacher conducted a discussion on the topic "sale" under the concept of "percentage".
• This discussion will help the students to present their views i.e., how sales can benefit them or what items usually they bought from a sale, etc.
• The teacher will make sure that every student in the class is actively participating in the discussion as it will make the learning experience joyful for them.
• The students will learn the skill of communication and as well as it will help the students to listen to each other's opinions and encourages them to present their arguments.
• They will share their experiences about the sale, argue with them to prove their point, and will get to know the perspective of others on the topic of "sale".

So, it is concluded that discussion will help the students to listen to each other's opinions and encourages them to present their arguments.​

Concept:

• A honey bee is a flying insect.
• It is well known for its ability to produce honey by collecting nectar from flowers.
• Hence the name honey bee.

Explanation:

About Honey bees:

• Honeybees are attracted to flowers.
• Honey bees live in a beehive, which is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony.
• Honeybees lay their eggs from October to December.
• Honey bees like to feed on sugar syrup.
• Every bee colony consists of three types of bees:
• Queen Bee: 
• Every beehive has one Queen Bee that lays eggs.
• Male Bee: 
• There are only a few males in the hive.
• The male bees have no special role as workers.
• Worker Bee: 
• Most of the bees in the hive are worker-bees.
• These bees work all day.
• They make the hive and also look after the baby bees.
• They fly around flowers in search of nectar.
• The worker bees are very important for the hive.
• Without worker-bees, there would be neither hive nor any nectar collection.
• When one bee finds flowers with nectar, it does a special kind of dance by which the other bees can know where the nectar is.
• Honey bees play a very important role in the pollination of flowers like the Litchi, coffee, and cocoa flower.

Therefore, the best time to start bee-keeping is October to December.

About Beekeeping:

• Beekeeping is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made hives, by humans.
• A beekeeper keeps bees in order to collect their honey and other products that the hive produces.
• The purpose of beekeeping includes products like beeswax, honey, bee pollen, and royal jelly.
• Beekeeping is also done for pollination of crops, or to produce bees for sale to other beekeepers.
• A location where bees are kept is called an apiary or "bee yard".
• An apiarist is a fancy word for a beekeeper.

Concept:

In the light of the availability of various resources in nature, natural resources can be broadly classified into two kinds:

Inexhaustible Natural Resources:

• These resources are present in unlimited quantity in nature.
• They are not likely to be exhausted by human activities.
• Examples are sunlight, air.

Exhaustible Natural Resources:

• The amount of these resources in nature is limited.
• They can be exhausted by human activities.
• Examples of these resources are forests, wildlife, minerals, coal, petroleum, natural gas etc.

Explanation:

About petroleum:

• The word petroleum is derived from petra (rock) and oleum (oil).
• Petroleum is a dark oily liquid.
• It has an unpleasant odour.
• It is mined from between the rocks under Earth.
• Petroleum was formed from organisms living in the sea.
• As these organisms died, their bodies settled at the bottom of the sea and got covered with layers of sand and clay.
• Over millions of years, the absence of air, high temperature and high pressure transformed the dead organisms into petroleum and natural gas.

Refining of petroleum:

• Petroleum is a mixture of various constituents such as petroleum gas, petrol, diesel, lubricating oil, paraffin wax, etc.
• The process of separating the various constituents/ fractions of petroleum is known as refining.
• It is carried out in a petroleum refinery.
• Petroleum is extracted from crude oil.
• With the help of fractional distillation of crude oil, not just petroleum but also a large number of by-products are extracted.
• Byproducts of petroleum are paraffin wax, petrol, diesel, grease, lubricating oil, etc.

About coal:

• About 300 million years ago the earth had dense forests in low lying wetland areas.
• Due to natural processes, like flooding, these forests got buried under the soil.
• As more soil deposited over them, they were compressed.
• The temperature also rose as they sank deeper and deeper.
• Under high pressure and high temperature, dead plants got slowly converted to coal.
• As coal contains mainly carbon, the slow process of conversion of dead vegetation into coal is called carbonisation.
• Since it was formed from the remains of vegetation, coal is also called a fossil fuel.
• Coal is one of the fuels used to cook food.
• Earlier, it was used in railway engines to produce steam to run the engine.
• It is also used in thermal power plants to produce electricity.
• Coal is also used as a fuel in various industries.

​​Thus, coal is different from others as it is not a petroleum byproduct.

Additional Information 

The correct answer is: Meghalaya

Concept:

• Carnivorous plants obtain the essential nutrients from the heterotrophs.
• These plants trap insects and obtain the nutrients which they do not get from the soil.
• They are not called heterotrophs or consumers, because they only derive nutrients from insects.
• These plants get energy from the process of photosynthesis.
• Hence they are both producers and carnivores.

Key Points

Nepenthes is a plant which:

• It can trap and eat frog, insects and even mice.
• It is found in Australia, Indonesia and Meghalaya in India.
• It has a pitcher-like shape and the mouth is covered by a leaf.
• It has a special smell that attracts insects to it, which get trapped and can't get out.

So, it could be interpreted that Nepenthes is a plant that has a pitcher shape, a mouth covered by a leaf and found in Australia, Indonesia, Malasia, India.

Explanation:

• A pashmina shawl is very thin yet very warm.
• The goats from which the soft pashmina wool is collected, are found on very high altitudes of 5000 metres.
• In winter, the temperature here drops below 0° C (–40°C).
• A coat of warm hair grows on the goat’s body which protects it from extreme cold.
• The goats shed some of their hair(fur) in summer.
• This hair is so fine that six of these would be as thick as one hair.
• The fine hair cannot be woven on machines and so weavers of Kashmir make these shawls by hand.
• This is a long and difficult process.
• After almost 250 hours of weaving, one plain pashmina shawl is made.
• The Changpa tribe, of Ladakh, are known for making pashmina shawls.
• It is believed that a pashmina shawl is as warm as six sweaters.

​Thus, one Pashmina shawl is as warm as 6 normal sweaters and 250 hours are taken to weave a plain Pashmina shawl.

Concept:

• There are some groups that work hard to bring water to the people of different areas.

Explanation:

About Tarun Bharat Sangh:

• Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS) is a non-governmental organization in Rajasthan.
• It has its headquarter in Bheekampura, Alwar, Rajasthan.
• The organization is best known for doing ecological research and land development to provide clean water to people.
• They ask the elders about the water arrangement in their times.
• They rebuild the old lakes and johads, and also build new ones.
• It is directed by Rajendra Singh.

Thus, the group called Tarun Bharat Sangh is associated with rebuilding old lakes.

Concept:

• Every region has a different house.
• The type of house depends on the climatic conditions in the region.
• Houses are built specially to suit the needs of the people.

Explanation:

About houses in Leh and Ladakh:

• Houses in Leh have two floors.
• The ground floor has no windows.
• The ground floor is for animals and for storing necessary things.
• Wooden steps are used to reach the different floors.
• The roof is the most important part of their house.
• During the summer season, people dry many fruits and vegetables on the roof and store them for winters.
• The houses are made up of stones which are kept one over the other.
• The walls of these houses are coated with a thick layer of mud and lime.
• The house looks like a shed from inside with a lot of hay stored there.
• Thick tree trunks are used to make, a flat strong roof.

​Thus,

A. Slanting wooden roofs made of tree trunks: Not found in Ladak homes.

B. Ground floor without window:  Found in Ladak homes.

C. Thick walls made of stones, mud and lime: Found in Ladak homes.

D. Wooden floors: Found in Ladak homes.

​

Description of houses of different places:

Concept:

• India is an agriculturally important country.
• Two-thirds of its population is engaged in agricultural activities.
• Agriculture is a primary activity, which produces most of the food that we consume.

Explanation:

Using excessive chemicals:

• In commercial farming, excessive chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides are used.
• This is done to obtain higher productivity.
• Excessive and imprudent use of chemicals has led to the depletion of essential micronutrients in the soil.
• Excessive use of chemicals is held responsible for degrading the soils.
• Continuous use of these can turn the fields barren.

Thus, growing the same crop over and over and using so many chemicals makes the soil barren.

Concept:

India is known to be a boiling pot of art and culture with every region having its own traditional artform or painting.

Explanation:

About Madhubani painting:

• Mithila painting, popularly known as Madhubani art.
• It is from the district of the same name in Bihar and is now well-known all over the world.
• The colours used in Madhubani paintings are usually derived from plants and other natural sources.
• Most commonly, a coloured paste of powdered rice is used for Madhubani painting.
• Women usually paint their homes to celebrate festivals and the theme of the painting can be varied from nature to myths.
• Women decorate the nuptial chamber and the inner walls of their homes to celebrate festivals.
• The return of Ram from exile and Krishna playing with gopis are the preferred subject matter.
• Artists often show scenes of nature, an abundant harvest, tantric images of snake worship, and even city scenes if they have visited one.
• The United Nations in India decided to display Indian folk paintings for the eighth Millenium Development Goals programme.
• For which Madhubani artists Satya Narain and Moti Karn created a beautiful expression of prevention of child mortality.
• They showed it by showing how elephants and other animals protect their young ones.

​

Thus, for making Madhubani paintings the artists use a coloured paste of powdered rice.

​

Other states and their traditional artforms:

The correct answer is option 3, i.e. Chikungunya,  Malaria, Dengue,

Concept:

• Illness/Diseases: It is a state of experience by the body when one or more of the control systems of the body are not functioning normally.  
• Communicable disease: The diseases which are infectious or transmissible from a body to body through biological agents in humans and animals. Ex- Influenza, Ebola, Covid-19, etc.
• Non-communicable disease: The disease that is not transmissible directly from one person to another through biological agents, Ex- Astana, Diabetes, etc.

Explanation:

• Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection causing a severe flu-like illness and, sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue.
• Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.
• Chikungunya is a viral disease (genus Alphavirus) that is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes – including Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.
• HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks cells that help the body fight infection, making a person more vulnerable to other infections and diseases.
• It is spread by contact with certain bodily fluids of a person with HIV, most commonly during unprotected sex (sex without a condom or HIV medicine to prevent or treat HIV), or through sharing injection drug equipment.
• AIDS is the late stage of HIV infection that occurs when the body’s immune system is badly damaged because of the virus.
• Typhoid fever is a systemic infection caused by Salmonella Typhi, usually through ingestion of contaminated food or water.
• Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

Additional Information

Stagnant water:

• When the flow of the water stops and that water is there only for some period of time is called stagnant water.
• Stagnant water is the main source for many types of diseases too.
• The rainwater collected in the open tyres and also in the tank and if not looking for a long time may become a house for many types of diseases.
• Malaria may be caused by stagnant water.
• Water pollution can often lead to increased breeding of mosquitoes that carry parasites.
• The growth or breeding of the mosquitoes can be stopped by spraying the kerosene on the water.
• This happens because when we spray the kerosene then the oxygen supply to the larva (small mosquitoes) stops and they die in the water.
• Spreading oil over water cuts the oxygen supply, hence mosquitoes cannot breed in them.
• Polio is caused by a virus known as poliovirus and it can cause paralysis.
• Pneumonia is a lung disease that happens because of bacterial or viral infections.
• Chicken Pox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. The disease is also known as Varicella.

Some common communicable diseases are:

Concept:

In the light of the availability of various resources in nature, natural resources can be broadly classified into two kinds:

Inexhaustible Natural Resources:

• These resources are present in unlimited quantity in nature.
• They are not likely to be exhausted by human activities.
• Examples are sunlight, air.

Exhaustible Natural Resources:

• The amount of these resources in nature is limited.
• They can be exhausted by human activities.
• Examples of these resources are forests, wildlife, minerals, coal, petroleum, natural gas etc.

Explanation:

About petroleum:

• The word petroleum is derived from petra (rock) and oleum (oil).
• It is mined from between the rocks under Earth.
• Petroleum was formed from organisms living in the sea.
• As these organisms died, their bodies settled at the bottom of the sea and got covered with layers of sand and clay.
• Over millions of years, the absence of air, high temperature and high pressure transformed the dead organisms into petroleum and natural gas.
• Petroleum is a dark, thick, oily liquid.
• It has an unpleasant odour.
• It is a mixture of various constituents such as petroleum gas, petrol, diesel, lubricating oil, paraffin wax, etc.
• The process of separating the various constituents/ fractions of petroleum is known as refining.
• It is carried out in a petroleum refinery.
• Petroleum is extracted from crude oil.
• With the help of fractional distillation of crude oil, not just petroleum but also a large number of by-products are extracted.
• Byproducts of petroleum are paraffin wax, petrol, diesel, grease, lubricating oil, etc.​

​Thus, the correct characteristics of petroleum are smelly, thick, dark coloured oil.

Explanation:

• Of the many kinds of snakes found in our country, only four types of snakes are poisonous.
• They are Cobra, Common Krait, Russel’s Viper (Duboiya), Saw-scaled Viper (Afai).
• A snake has two hollow teeth (fangs).
• When it bites, the poison enters the person's body through the fangs.
• There is a medicine for snake bites.
• The medicine is made from the snake's poison and is available in all government hospitals.
• Python is not a poisonous snake.

Additional Information

• Snakes can't hear to snake charmer's music but will respond only by feel the vibrations produced by the instrument.
• They do not have external ears,
• They only feel the vibrations on the ground.

Concept:  

• Time taken for journey = Arrival time - Departure time

Given:

• The departure and arrival time is given in 24hr format.
• The departure time at Surat is 16:20 hrs on Day 1.
• The arrival time at Madgaon is 7:35 hrs on Day 2.
• Distance already covered by train before Surat = 530 km.
• Distance covered by train till Madgaon = 1509 km

Explanation:

• Distance between Surat and Madgaon = Distance covered till Madgaon - Distance covered before Surat. = 1509 - 530 km = 979 km
• Time taken between Day 1, 16:20 hrs to Day 2, 4:20 hrs = 12 hrs
• Time taken between Day 2, 4:20 hrs to Day 2, 7:20 hrs = 3 hrs.
• Time taken between Day 2, 7:20 hrs to Day 2, 7:35 hrs = 15 min
• Total time taken to cover the distance between Surat and Mudgaon = 15 hrs 15 min

​Thus, the distance between Surat and Madgaon is 979 km, and the time taken to cover this distance by the train is 15 hours 15 minutes.

Explanation:

• Al-Biruni was born in 973, in Khwarizm in present-day Uzbekistan.
• He was well versed in several languages: Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Sanskrit.
• Al-Biruni’s expertise in several languages allowed him to compare languages and translate texts.
• He translated several Sanskrit works, including Patanjali’s work on grammar, into Arabic.
• For his Brahmana friends, he translated the works of Euclid (a Greek mathematician) into Sanskrit.
• Al-Biruni’s Kitab-ul-Hind is written in the Arabic language.
• The book is simple and lucid.
• It is a voluminous text and divided into 80 chapters on subjects such as religion and philosophy, festivals, astronomy, alchemy, manners and customs, social life, weights and measures, iconography, laws and metrology.
• Al-Biruni adopted a distinctive structure in each chapter, beginning with a question, following this up with a description based on Sanskritic traditions, and concluding with a comparison with other cultures.

Concept:

• Various types of materials are available to humans.
• Different materials have different properties.
• On the basis of their properties materials are used for different purposes.

Explanation:

About Bronze:

• Bronze is a metal, like aluminium, iron and copper.
• It is reddish-brown in colour.
• It is made by melting copper and tin in a furnace.
• It is a  good conductor of electricity.
• Tribal people have been using bronze to make many things for thousands of years.
• It is used to make big guns (cannons) found in the fort of Golconda.

​Thus, the correct statement about bronze is that it is an alloy of copper and tin.

Concept:

• Friction: The property of a surface that opposes the relative motion between two surfaces is called friction.
• Friction opposes the relative motion between two surfaces.
• It is denoted by f and the SI unit of the frictional force is Newton (N).
• Friction (f) = μ N, where μ is the coefficient of friction and N is the normal force

Explanation:

• It opposes the motion between the surfaces in contact with each other.
• It leads to a decrease in the velocity of the object.
• It depends on the nature of the surfaces.
• Examples:
• We are able to write because of friction between the tip of the pen and the paper.
• We are able to walk because of friction between our feet and the ground.
• We are able to stop a moving vehicle by applying brakes because of friction.
• Driving of a vehicle on a surface.
• Skating.
• Sliding on a garden slide.
• Lighting a matchstick.
• The dusting of the carpet by beating it with a stick.
• Drilling a nail into the wall.

Thus, some examples of where friction is useful in our day-to-day life are:

A. We are able to write because of friction between the tip of the pen and the paper. - Correct

B. We are able to walk because of friction between our feet and the ground. - Correct

D. We are able to stop a moving vehicle by applying brakes because of friction. - Correct

There are four types of friction:

Static friction:

• It is defined as the frictional force that acts between the surfaces when they are at rest with respect to each other.
• Example: Creating heat by rubbing both hands together.

Sliding friction:

• It is defined as the resistance that is created between any two objects when they are sliding against each other.
• Example: Sliding of the block across the floor.

Rolling friction:

• It is defined as the force which resists the motion of a ball or wheel and is the weakest type of friction.
• Example: Wheels of the moving vehicles.

Fluid friction:

• It is defined as the friction that exists between the layers of the fluid when they are moving relative to each other.

• Example: The flow of ink in pens.

• A ball thrown vertically upwards comes back to us due to gravity.

Inclusive education: It refers to an education system that accommodates all children regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic or other conditions.

Inclusive Education:

• acknowledges that all children can learn.
• acknowledges and respects differences in children: age, gender, ethnicity, language, disability, HIV and TB status etc.
• enables education structures, systems, and methodologies to meet the needs of all children.
• is part of a wider strategy to promote an inclusive society.
• is a dynamic process that is constantly evolving.
• seeks to maximize the potential of all students.
• is a continuous process, not an achieved state or product.
• is the shift in service from the care of disabled children to their education and personal development.

Hence, the above situation is related to inclusive education.

Attaching meaning while learning and contextualized learning are the main aspects of learner-centered instruction (NCF,2005). This facilitates the active construction of knowledge on the basis of previous knowledge and is the crux of constructivism.

• Social constructivism considers learning not only to be a process of constructing knowledge but also as an activity that occurs in a social context as learning is a social activity.
• While in situation ‘A’ learning is passive and individualized, in situation ‘B’ learning is through collaboration with the negotiation of meaning and sharing of multiple viewpoints for changing the internal representation of external reality.

Key Points 

The teacher engages her learners in a number of group activities such as group discussions, group projects, role plays, etc. The learning dimension it highlights is learning as a social activity. 

• These methods conceive learning as a social activity by providing children with lots of opportunities to learn in real-world settings. This pedagogical method refers to involving students in authentic practices through activity and social interactions. In this learning process where the teacher assists the learners through scaffolding to make them perform just beyond their current level.

Thus from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that the learning dimension it highlights is learning as a social activity.

Additional Information The objectives of these activities are-

• Develops skills in leadership, interviewing and social interaction, group discussions
• Provides an opportunity for the student to put herself in another's place and to become more sensitive to another's feelings.
• Develops skills in group problem-solving. It helps the student in identifying critical issues and to come to a neutral agreement.
• Develops the ability to observe and analyze situations
• Allows the student to practice selected behavior in a real-life situation without the stress of making a mistake.
• Whatever they have learned previously can be used in a different context using role-playing.
• While learning a language, it gives a safe environment for students to rehearse what they have learned.

Exhibition: It a large-scale showing in which objects and products are kept open. It can help learners to learn about objects, models and arts. Hence, a science exhibition is something that exhibits objects, models and artistic works related to science.

• Science exhibition plays an important role in the learning and teaching of science as it provides learners with a platform to show their talents and creativity.
• Science exhibition mainly deals with different scientific, innovative and creative ideas and helps students to apply their science knowledge in everyday life. In the exhibition, students are motivated to discover different scientific materials and objects using concepts of science.

Hence, we conclude that the purpose of science exhibition is to provide a creative medium for learners to explore their talents.

An effective teaching-learning will happen in the class when a teacher helps or facilitates to link the knowledge a student has with the new concept to be taught. The objective behind this is to promote correlation and transfer of knowledge.

Key PointsKnowledge: Knowledge is a process of acquiring facts, information, and skills through one’s own experiences or learnings. It is an informal experience. Knowledge is to be gained by one’s self-efforts and experiences or in other words it is self-driven. It is something gained from good education, peers, extensive reading, consultations, and life experiences.

• Transfer of knowledge: “Transfer” is a cognitive practice whereby a learner’s mastery of knowledge or skills in one context enables them to apply that knowledge or skill in a different context. Because transfer signals that a learner’s comprehension allows them to recognize how their knowledge can be relevant and to apply it effectively outside original learning conditions, the transfer is often considered a hallmark of true learning.
• Correlation of knowledge: Correlation is used to find the relationship between two variables. In the case of Education, these two variables are prior knowledge or existing knowledge and new concept. A teacher helps or facilitates to link these two variables in a classroom.

So, we can conclude that effective teaching-learning will happen in the class when a teacher helps or facilitates to link the knowledge a student has with the new concept to be taught. The objective behind this is to promote correlation and transfer of knowledge.

Additional Information

1. Individual differences stand for the variation or deviations among individuals regarding a single characteristic or number of characteristics. It stands for those differences which in their totality distinguish one individual from another. That is not linked with knowledge. The objective behind effective teaching-learning is not to promote individual differences.
2. Learner autonomy is when students take control and responsibility for their learning, both in terms of what they learn and how they learn it. It takes as its starting point the idea that students are capable of self-direction and can develop an independent, proactive approach to their studies. The objective behind effective teaching-learning is not to promote Learner autonomy in a classroom.
3. Reinforcement means something that occurs when a stimulus is presented or removed following a response and increases the frequency of that behavior in similar circumstances. This is not an objective of effective teaching-learning.

 So, An effective teaching-learning will happen in the class when a teacher helps or facilitates to link the knowledge a student has with the new concept to be taught. The objective behind this is to promote correlation and transfer of knowledge.

Creativity is the capability of an individual to bring novelty to his thoughts, ideas, perceptions, and activities. Any creative individual can create or discover something that is new, raw, and fresh in terms of principles, predictions, possibilities, and any new object.

• It is universal and everyone possesses creativity to some extent. Although creative abilities are natural endowments, still we can nourish and nurture them by training or education.

Key Points

• Creative students are blessed with a higher level of thinking abilities and they are able to find different solutions to a problem. Therefore, they are known as divergent thinkers. They bring uncommon alternatives to a common problem.
• We can also say that divergent thinking is directly related to the creative thinking or creativity of an individual.
• For example, if an individual is not able to think divergently in multiple directions then they can not be creative.
• It clearly means that to be creative, the basic necessity to have is to think divergently.
• So, if Shyama's performance is the best in her class while doing experiments and practical work and she is considered a very creative person.
• We can say that she is learning a concept through divergent thinking as while doing experiments she needs to think from multiple perspectives which is a feature of divergent thinking.
• The other aspects of creativity involve fluency, flexibility, originality, abstractness, elaboration, and resistance to premature closure.

Hint

• Imitation mainly includes copying others without being innovative and imitating their behavioral patterns as per observation. The process of imitation discourages creativity.
• Convergent thinking means to think conversely which limits the thinking of an individual to a specific boundary that does not motivate an individual to be creative.
• People are more likely to follow the behaviors modeled by someone with whom they can identify. The more perceived commonalities and emotional attachments between the observer and the model, the more likely the observer will learn from the model. This term is known as Modelling.

Therefore, it can be concluded that while doing experiments and practical work, Shyama is learning a concept through divergent thinking.

• Development is a wide and continuous process that refers to an increase in structure for better and enhanced functioning of organs. It is a process of interaction between a person and his environment.
• There are different kinds of factors that affect human development both positively and negatively. These factors include physical, economic, environmental, socio-cultural, emotional factors, etc.

Important Points

Environmental factors that shape development include:

NOTE:

• Other environmental factors that shape development include sanitation, natural environment, altitude, pollution, temperature, etc.
• Intelligence is a genetic factor that shapes development.

Hence, it could be concluded that environmental factors that shape development include all of the following except Intelligence.

Development refers to an increase in structure for better and enhanced functioning of organs. It is a wide and continuous process, thus there are some principles that need to be followed for a better understanding of the concept.

• The term ‘development’ refers to qualitative changes in an individual such as a change in personality or other mental and emotional aspects.

Key Points

• ​There are individual differences in development: Interaction between heredity and environmental influences leads to individual differences in the developmental pattern.
• These differences are caused by the genes one inherits and environmental conditions like food, medical facilities, psychological conditions, and learning opportunities.
• For example, Leena's learning style is different than Seema's because of individual differences or variations.

Thus, it is concluded that Seema learns every lesson quickly by rote method, whereas Leena understands each lesson after discussion and brainstorming, it denotes the developmental principle of individual differences.

Hint 

• Development is continuous: From the moment of conception till death, the individual is continuously changing. There is no break/discontinuity in development, in some stages development is fast and in some it is slow.
• Development proceeds from general to specific: In all the phases of prenatal (before birth) development and post-natal (after birth) life, the child’s responses are from general to specific. General activity proceeds to a specific activity. For example, when Sufi was less than 3 months of age and was shown a rattle, she would get excited and move her arms and kick her legs. This is a general response. At 5 months of age, she would reach out to hold it in her hand. This is a specific response.

Cooperative learning is a specific kind of collaborative learning. In cooperative learning, students work together in small groups on a structured activity. They are individually accountable for their work, and the work of the group as a whole is also assessed. Cooperative groups work face-to-face and learn to work as a team.

Key Points 

• Cooperative learning assists not only just learning but develops a sense to compete.
• The students feel responsible when they explain the answer to their fellow students who have achieved less than him.
• They do this to increase the efficiency, ability, and confidence level of comparatively weaker students.
• This sense of being a helping hand develops a good image for themselves. Thus, it helps them in the development of their self-esteem.
• Students interact and help each other. At the same time, they also want to do better than other students which leads to their higher achievement as they learn and progress in order to achieve more than their peers due to feeling of competition.
• It helps the teacher to attain the goal of teaching-learning that was unattainable by using only the individual and competitive methods in the classroom.

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• Cooperative learning develops a bond of companionship among students instead of conflict or disagreements between the group. The students are motivated to help and learn from each other.
• The empathetic approach for each other helps them in developing higher achievement and self-esteem more than higher moral development.
• Cooperative learning gives rise to a feeling of competition but not very intense. It is just for better performance than other students. At the same time, students help each other to achieve good performance.

Thus, it can be concluded that in cooperative learning, older and more proficient students assist younger and lesser skilled students. This leads to higher achievement and self-esteem.

Dyslexia has been around for a long time and has been defined in different ways. For example, in 1968, the World Federation of Neurologists defined dyslexia as “a disorder in children who, despite conventional classroom experience, fail to attain the language skills of reading, writing, and spelling commensurate with their intellectual abilities.”

• Dyslexia is not due to mental retardation, brain damage, or a lack of intelligence. It is caused by an impairment in the brain’s ability to translate images received from the eyes or ears into understandable language.
• The severity of dyslexia can vary from mild to severe. It is found more often in boys than in girls. The sooner dyslexia is treated, the more favourable the outcome; however, it is never too late for people with dyslexia to learn to improve their language skills.

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Characteristics of a Child Suffering from Dyslexia:

• A dyslexic child will read and write slowly, often reversing letters, words,s, or numbers.
• Has trouble distinguishing left to right.
• Lack of confidence with his own ability.
• The child may try to guess while reading, omitting or adding words, not in the text.
• The problem in remembers verbal instructions.
• He/she may have a poor vocabulary and weak comprehension.
• Difficulty in learning or copying from the board or printed book.
• A child may have difficulty remembering or understanding what he hears.
• Problems with reading accurately and fluency.

Thus from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that dyslexia is associated mainly with difficulties in reading.

The objectives of teaching environmental studies are to develop skills among the children and relate their classroom and social experience with their outside world.

• The interest and attention of students can be gained by assigning them activities and rewarding them.
• The subject can be made interesting by making the learners get involved in group discussions, and group projects, encouraging them to speak up their ideas, etc.

Key Points​ Benefits of Poems and Storytelling in EVS Class:

• Encourage the use of imagination, creativity, active participation, and listening skills
• Increase children’s willingness to communicate thoughts and feelings
• Promotes the ability to imagine and explore the nature of the world
• Reveal the difference and commonalities of cultures around the world
• Promote a feeling of well-being and relaxation
• Increase verbal proficiency

Hence, it becomes clear that the use of poems and storytelling promote the ability to imagine and explore the nature of the world at the local and global level.

Teaching aids are the tools that are used by a teacher to explain their concept or lesson and make the concepts more interesting and creative. It improves learner's reading and other skills. Teaching Aids are devices by which the teacher helps the students to clarify, establish, and correlate accurate concepts, inspections, and appreciation through the utilization of more than one sensory channel. It means all the materials used to facilitate the understanding of written or spoken words. 

Key Points

• Audio-visual aids are those tools that can be heard as well as seen. These are sensory devices, provide a sensory experience to the learner, and i.e. the learners can see and hear simultaneously using their senses. These are instructional devices that are used to communicate messages more effectively through sound and visuals. Example:- Slides, projector, Film strips, etc.
• Activity-based learning as the name suggests actively involves learners in the construction and re-construction of knowledge based on his or her individual experiences. the objectives of EVS, as stated in the NCF 2005, focus on developing in children curiosity and awareness about their surroundings;
  

knowledge and understanding of their environment and their relationships or connections; developing affect attributes (appreciation, values and attitudes) and skills of observation and measurement; a collection of information and its processing; creative expressions, etc. The activity-based approach helps the child to use their senses more effectively.

• It involves the sense of vision as well as hearing. It can be used by the teacher who use audiovisual materials to clearly explain the lesson to the students.

Thus from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that a teacher uses audio-visual aids and physical activities in her teaching because they utilize a maximum number of senses to enhance learning.

Portfolios provide the opportunity to observe and document a wide range of students behaviour, skills and learning over a long period. Portfolios can encourage students to take more ownership and responsibility for the learning process. Portfolios can improve communication between teachers and parents.

So, the best way to assess a child at the primary level is to use Portfolios.

Key Points The best way to assess a child at the primary level is to use Portfolios. Because:

• A portfolio is a collection of a student’s work, usually constructed by selection from a large number of articles, books, magazines, etc., that have been deliberately collected together for a purpose and often presented with a reflective piece written by the student to justify the selection.
• The involvement of the student in reviewing and selecting the content, strategy, and presentation is seen as the main activities for developing a portfolio.
• So, a portfolio is an innovative approach to promote reflective thinking on a wide scale.
• The evidence that teachers received from the work of students changes the method in which they teach and increases their expectations for their learners.

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• If Periodical tests are conducted after each topic or unit, we can know a clear picture of where the pupil is and of how he is progressing. This knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the pupil helps plan effective teaching by teachers and ineffective learning by the pupil. This could be helpful regarding Formative assessment.
• Home assignments are not the best way to assess a child, because, parents or family members could have taken an active interest in doing that.
• Summative assessment is conducted to know the Assessment: Basics terminal behaviour of the learner. The keyword in summative assessment is “certification”. Summative assessment is conducted after completion of the whole course. So, it is not the best way to assess a child at the primary level.

The studies in a portfolio must be designed to present students’ performance and development in any period in detail. Portfolios can encourage students to take more ownership and responsibility for the learning process. Portfolios can improve communication between teachers and parents. So, to assess a child at the primary level Portfolio is the best way.

The teaching of environmental education involves both practical (hands-on) and theoretical (understanding) aspects. The major objectives of environmental education are creating awareness, changing attitudes, and bringing people into action towards environmental conservation and protection.

Key Points Lecture Method:

• Information tends to be forgotten quickly when students are passive.
• Lectures presume that all students learn at the same pace and are at the same level of understanding.
• Lectures are not suited for teaching higher orders of thinking such as application, analysis, synthesis, or evaluation; for teaching motor skills, or for influencing attitudes or values.
• Lectures are not well suited for teaching complex, abstract material.
• Lectures require effective speakers.
• Lectures emphasize learning by listening.

Holistic thinking or integrated perspective is the heart of EVS. Holistic education aims at helping children be the ‘most that they can be’, which amounts to the development of a child’s intellectual, emotional, social, physical, artistic, creative, and spiritual potentials . That is why Lecture Method is not the correct method to teach EVS. Because EVS is a subject where we have to focus on children and focuses on “experiential learning” rather than “teaching”.

Important PointsProblem-Solving Method: 

• In this approach, teachers create a problematic situation for students and then assist them in perceiving, defining, and stating the problems in a fear-free classroom environment.
• It provides children with an opportunity to solve problems quite independently or through a guided approach by following systematic steps.
• It is a learner-centered approach that emphasizes the learner's active involvement in the learning process.

Therefore, in environmental education teaching through problem-solving is considered an important method. 

Cooperative learning:

• The students should have cooperative tasks to make student-student interaction effective for inventions are the result of the collaborative and cooperative learning are not of an individual effort.
• Cooperative learning is the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other's learning.

Therefore, in environmental education teaching through Cooperative learning is considered an important method. 

Guided inquiry Method:

• In guided inquiry, teachers help students use their language for constructing knowledge by active listening and questioning.

Teachers allow students to take control of their learning in this method. Students:

• Create investigations
• Ask questions
• Do research
• Distill information
• Sharpen their critical thinking skills.

Therefore, in environmental education teaching through the Guided Inquiry Method is considered an important method. 

So, Explaining through lecture is not the suitable method to teach EVS.

One of the main focuses of EVS is to expose children to the actual world they live in. The learning situations/experiences of EVS help children to explore and connect with their natural and human-made surroundings.

 Key Points

• EVS helps children develop their insights into the functioning of several things or understand human processes in their environment. Such interactions with their surrounding environment are immensely important in the healthy development of children. Such interactions also enhance children’s learning capabilities by providing concrete learning experiences.
• Holistic education aims at helping children be the most that they can be, which amounts to the development of a child’s intellectual, emotional, social, physical, artistic, creative, and spiritual potential.
• This is done not by just rote learning in classes but through direct engagement with the environment.
• EVS, by enabling children to explore, understand, appreciate and value their environment, helps them to derive meaning and joy from learning through connecting with their immediate environment, the natural world, and the community.
• Thus, it is child-centered and focuses on “experiential learning” rather than “teaching”.

Important Points

• EVS aims at developing in children a holistic or integrated perspective of our environment as a composite of natural and human-made surroundings with the intricate interactions and interdependence that exist.
• The approach in EVS goes beyond the single-subject approach and helps children to use the contents and methods of science and social sciences and the environment to solve environmental problems/issues in the future.

So, EVS teachers should focus exclusively on experiments.

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• EVS is a subject where we have to focus on children and focus on “experiential learning” rather than “teaching”. EVS aims at developing in children a holistic or integrated perspective of our environment as a composite of natural and human-made surroundings with the intricate interactions and interdependence that exist.
• Therefore, EVS teachers should not focus exclusively on books and tests. EVS teachers neither accept and respect the perception of children nor, accept and respect the views of parents.

So, we can conclude that EVS teachers should focus exclusively on experiments as EVS aims at developing in children a holistic or integrated perspective of our environment.

EVS learning provides an opportunity for children to explore, investigate and develop an understanding of the natural, human, social, and cultural dimensions of the local and wider environments.

Important Points

• This area enables children to live as informed and caring members of the local, national and global communities at large.
• Holistic thinking or integrated perspective is the heart of EVS.
• Holistic education aims at helping children be the ‘most that they can be’, which amounts to the development of a child’s intellectual, emotional, social, physical, artistic, creative, and spiritual potentials.
• Therefore exercises and activities in an EVS textbook must be provided inbuilt in the topics.

Key Points

EVS learning needs to be theme-based rather than topic-based as suggested in the syllabus/ curriculum. Therefore, in each identified theme, the concerns and issues related to the physical, social and cultural context of the environment should be discussed holistically and critically so that the child can make informed choices. Therefore exercises and activities in an EVS textbook must be provided inbuilt in the topics.

1. Active participation of children is important in constructing knowledge.
2. Opportunities should be given for observations using a variety of learning resources such as visits to parks, museums, water bodies, and various places in the community.
3. If learning occurs beyond the walls of classrooms, the quality of learning is better.
4. In each theme, at the end of the Curriculum presentation, integration of EVS with other subjects has also been highlighted.

So, for maintaining all these things it is necessary to put exercises and activities in an EVS textbook inbuilt in the topics.

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Exercises and activities in an EVS textbook should not be provided

• at the end of the unit
• at the end of the chapter
• at different places in the book.

because exercises and activities in an EVS textbook should be provided inbuilt in the topics. So, that the students get more and more knowledge from every theme of their EVS book and can learn in a better way.

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