A Comparative Analysis of Economics Teaching between two School Boards

  • Dr. Prachi Nadda

Abstract

Teaching economics has always been challenging for teachers, as it not only requires the teachers to impart knowledge and concepts to the students effectively like any other subject but it also demands that the teachers make the teaching interesting as most of the curriculum involves lots of concepts, theories and laws. Generally it is seen that students find teaching confined only to lecturing as uninteresting which leads to inattention and lack of clarity of concept among the students. Consequently this may lead to increase in the anxiety level of the students during the time of examination thereby resulting in a decline in their academic performance. In the present study classroom observation of economics teaching in class eleven was made by making a comparison of two school boards in the light of NCF (2005) re-commendations. The study revealed that in majority of the sampled schools of both the school boards the teacher dominated the classroom activity whereas the students were mere passive listeners.  In view of this it is suggested that teacher should make use of a combination of curriculum transaction strategies namely-instructional methods, teaching aids, evaluation techniques, surveys, projects, field trips etc so that the interest of students is developed and sustained in the subject.

Published
2019-12-02
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