Practice Test: Social Pedagogy - 5 - CTET & State TET MCQ

Team teaching requires planning, skilled management, willingness to risk change and even failure. It also requires creativity, imagination and open-mindedness to work collaboratively.

The project method is the incorporation of a new way of looking at the student and teaching him. It provides an opportunity to the students for relating classroom learning to the community.
Project method consists of following steps:
1. Creating situation
2. Selection of the problem
3. Planning
4. Execution
5. Evaluation
6. Reporting and Recording

Various challenges are faced by social science teachers in the classroom like covering a vast syllabus in a limited time and making sure that it is understood by the students. There is too much reliance on textbooks, and it is difficult to a make connection to students’ lives.

A model session of parliament among school students will help involve youth in maintaining order in conduct of discussions and to respect and hear even opposing viewpoints. It will provide insight in functioning of parliament and understanding of democratic process.

• Geography too has its tools, techniques and methods. Important among them are globes, maps, diagrams, relief models and spatial analytical methods. Cartography is concerned with the preparation of maps and diagrams to show the distribution of geographical phenomena. 
• Geography is often thought of as the art of making and studying maps.
• Maps give us a much more correct and graphic view of the way the Earth’s surface looks compared to a picture or drawing. As earlier, even today geographical information about an area is available through reports, travel diaries and gazetteers.
• At present maps can be drawn by using satellite images using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools. Such mapmakers are in great demand today. Nowadays geographers, engineers, environmental scientists, city planners, social scientists, and many others learn to use GIS to understand the Earth better.
• Cartography is concerned with preparation of maps and diagrams to show the distribution of geographical phenomena. Important methods in geography are deductive and inductive in nature. Various statistical techniques and models are used for regional analysis and to understand spatial distribution and interaction. 

Thus, it can be concluded that all the above mentioned are the tools, techniques and method for studying Geography.

Geography:

• Geography is a much wider field than the other aspects of our society as it includes not only the human relationships but also includes the physical properties of the earth's surface.
• The teacher takes the help of various teaching-learning materials to teach abstract concepts that are difficult to understand i.e., the cyclones, working of windmills, and the solar system, etc. 
• These aids provide the learner a concrete experience in learning which makes learning comparatively permanent.
  • Rain gauge: It is a kind of meteorological instrument that is being used to measure the rainfall in a particular area in a specific interval of time.
  • Model: They are the miniature copy of a object. These are the objects with smaller size, complexity, safety, and cost factors for carrying out the desired instructional purpose. 
  • Globe: It is a three-dimensional model sphere, used to provide a broad-level picture of the whole earth. It represents the actual shape of the earth that is comparatively smaller in size.​

Social Science at Upper Primary Level:

• Social Science must link a child's life at school with life outside the classroom.
• It helps to initiate the learner into a study of India’s past, with references to contemporary developments in other parts of the world.
• It includes disciplines of History, Geography, Political Science, Economics, and Sociology.
• The objective of teaching the social sciences is to develop an understanding of the earth as the habitat of humankind and other forms of life.

Hence, it becomes clear that the Philosophy subject is not included in social science at the upper primary level.

Social Science is a branch of science that deals with human behaviour and social relationships, which rely primarily on empirical approaches. Social science includes disciplines of History, Geography, Political Science, Economics, and Sociology.

Activity-Based Questions in Social Science Lessons:

• It indulges students in activities by stimulating their senses, such as sight, smell, vision, or feeling, and getting them involved in the subject.
• In activity-based learning, students are involved in learning activities more than listening, and less emphasis is placed on transmitting information and more on developing student’s skills.
• Activity-based questions make social Science lesson joyful, interesting for the students.
• Students are involved in higher-order thinking such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Hence, from the above-mentioned points, it becomes clear that Activity-based questions make Social Science lessons joyful.

Field trips are useful in Social Science for empirical evidence (information obtained through observation and experimentation) as an it:

• reinforces experiential and contextual learning.

• provides an active learning experience to learners. 

• involves learners in both group and self-directed activities.

• links classroom learning to life outside school or with real-world.

• gives students a lot of opportunities for observation and exploration.

Hence, we conclude that Field trips are useful in Social Science for the ​Empirical evidence.

Portfolio is a file of each student, in which photocopies of documents of important activities of the child are kept in the form of certificates and photograph proof.

The main limitations of the Project method of teaching Science is the students have to perform excessive mental and physical work.
Hence, option A is correct.

Therapeutic teaching can reveal the difficulties of learning about children. Appropriate learning process is adopted to overcome difficulties and causes. The inferiority of the inferior child goes away and they avoid the disadvantages.

In teacher-centered assessment process, learners are treated as passive recipients, whereas in learner-centered assessment process learners are treated as active recipients.

Social and Political Life is a new subject area in middle school social science that has replaced the earlier subject of Civics. NCF 2005 strongly argues that Civics should be discontinued and its focus on government institutions and functioning should be tempered in the new subject that replaces it.

Social and Political Life, as its name suggests, focuses on topics related to social, political, and economic life in contemporary India. This subject recognizes that children learn best through concrete experiences.

Approaches like learning through use of concrete examples and experiences should have been considered while developing social and political life textbooks as Social and Political Life:

• focuses on real situations to teach concepts.
• develops learners' abilities of critical understanding.
• uses case studies and narratives to explain concepts.
• avoids the use of definitions to sum up a concept.
• uses material that draws upon experiential understanding.

Hence, it could be concluded that learning through use of concrete examples and experiences is the best approach in the context of the question.