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Role of a Teacher in Physical development (PE) of a Child

-Teacher should know PE of a each stage of childhood

-Encourage participation in all PE activities – running, moving, cutting with scissors, painting, assembling etc..

-Use active learning experience

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-Practice activities > cutting, pasting, tracing which helps in strengthening of muscles etc..

-Help students during work as they can be messy during craft/art

-Accept messy work if it is the best effort

- Use of pencil grips

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For Students from 9 to 11 Years

-Frequent use of Computer

-Role Play

-adopting tasks according to the child’s requirements & ability (time, skill level, method amount)

-Give the students short & simple directions to do their best ability

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-Allowing students with some physical development issues to print their work or project work

-Avoid competition between girls & boys as between the age of 9 to 11 Years as girls are more physically mature than boys at this age

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Cognitive development in a Child

-To Conceive or to know

-involves the ability to construct mental images involving thought, reasoning memory & language

-during mental process the mental images are processed in the brain as per the Childs interpretation of the surrounding

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Role of a Teacher in Cognitive development of a child

For Students 5 to 8 Years

  • Use concrete activities hands on activities
  • Give ample opportunity for student-student interaction & Teacher – Student interaction
  • Focus on Process, not the final product

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-Plan short activities

-Give one to two tasks at a time

-Allow for exploration & inquiry

  • Take the students out for field trips for exposure to real life experience
  • Have read aloud sessions with them

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For Students 9 to 11 Years

-offer a wide range of activities to ensure success

-encourage children to ask questions & research answers

-allow children to explore special interests

-Discuss open ended question for solving problems which require logical & analytical thinking skills

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-use 3D concrete materials

-Relate topics to with experiences from their lives

-Provide projects for students to explore

-Use more technology to teach children

-Make lessons less on rote learning & more on application

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