Year: 2022 | Month: June | Volume 12 | Issue 1
Contemporary Trends and Issues for Effective Use of Teaching Methods
Bhawana Mathur
DOI:10.30954/2231-4105.01.2022.11
Abstract:
The present study is an attempt to describe the practice of using the different teaching methods by the school teachers in their regular classroom teaching. A survey has been conducted on 100 teachers who have being teaching in different secondary school in Rajasthan state of India. These teachers have been teaching History, Geography, Social Study, Economics, and Civics as a social science subject. Self-made check list has been constructed for utilization of 20 teaching methods for social science subject. This reliable and valid check list had been administrating on Social Science teachers. The responses of teachers were analyzed using the Sten score. Result of study states that most popular teaching methods of social science were used by the most of the teachers during the classroom teaching. On the contrary less used teaching methods are not in use because the teachers feel some difficulty in using observation method and educational excursion. Average popular teaching methods, question answer method, discussion method of Social Science were used by the most of the teachers during the classroom teaching. The methods which are not popular are analytical synthetic method and Heuristic method. Not popular teaching methods were used by average percentage of teachers because they feel difficulty in using Synthetic method and Heuristic methods.
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