A capacity building workshop for Political Science was conducted by CBSE on September 26-27, 2018 at St. Andrews Scott Sr. Sec. School (I.P Extension, Patparganj). Resource persons for the workshop were Ms. Nira Kohli and Ms. Vijay Laxmi.
It was a great platform to address various issues, challenges and ideas that support the deeper understanding of the subject and related concepts.
The main objectives of the two-day session were to discuss collaboratively on issues regarding the syllabus for political science; equip the teachers with various strategies of teaching the subject and strengthen the subject planning and visualising lesson.
[gallery link="file" order="DESC"]On the first day of the workshop, a discussion was held on mind maps and the various aids to facilitate teaching and learning of political science. The session stressed on the importance of developing critical thinking skills among the students, as well as, on Blooms Taxonomy and its significance in making of lesson plans and question papers . The participating teachers were assigned the task of preparing questions for assessment, from a chapter, based on Blooms Taxonomy.
On the second day, participants engaged in an animated discussion on the various strategies related to the teaching of political science. The participants were organised into groups and tasked to prepare a lesson plan. Each group was given a question paper for the purpose. Thereafter, the groups presented their lesson plans which provided those present with several innovative ways of teaching the various topics.
The workshop was found to be a great learning platform to explore the new teaching methodologies and strategies.
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