COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Understand the Aims and Objectives of teaching Commerce.
- Comprehend instructional objectives for a lesson.
- Gain mastery of the teaching skills.
- Identify various methods in teaching Commerce.
- List various resources in teaching Commerce.
UNIT- I: AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF TEACHING COMMERCE
Commerce: Meaning, Nature and Scope – Aims and objectives of teaching Commerce in schools: Instructional objectives and Behavioural Objectives – Need and Importance of Instructional Objectives. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Instructional Objectives: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor Domains, Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy 2001 (Anderson & Krathwohl) Interrelation among the domains – Correlation between subjects– Values of Teaching Commerce.
Unit-II: TEACHING SKILLS
Micro-Teaching: Concept, Definition, Steps, Cycle - Micro-teaching Vs Macro-Teaching - Skill of Set Induction - Skill of Explaining, Skill of Questioning, Probing skills, Skill of Stimulus Variation, Skill of Reinforcement, Skill of non-verbal clues, Skill of Closure - Link lesson – Model episode.
Unit – III: APPROACHES OF TEACHING COMMERCE
Approaches of Lesson Planning - Steps - Organizing Teaching: Memory Level (Herbartian Model), Understanding Level (Morrison teaching Model), Reflective Level (Bigge and Hunt Teaching Model) – Unit Plan – Lesson Plan Writing.
Unit-IV: METHODS OF TEACHING
Teacher-centred Instruction: Lecture method, Demonstration and Team teaching – Learnercentred Instruction: Self-learning, Forms of Self-Learning: Programmed Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Keller Plan, Project Method, Activity Based Learning (ABL), Active Learning Method (ALM)-Mind Map and Advanced Active Learning Method (AALM).
Unit-V: INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA
Classification of Instructional Media in Commerce – Use of Mass media in classroom Instruction. New Emerging Media: Tele-Conferencing, Communication Satellites, Computer Networking, Word Processors, Blended Learning, Flipped Classroom, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality - Community Resources: Fieldtrips - Commerce Exhibition/Fair - Commerce Resource Centre - Commerce Club - Qualities of a good commerce textbooks - Qualities of a good Commerce teacher.
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
- Preparation and presentation of a report on different resources for teaching.
- Prepare a Model Lesson plan in Social Science for Level-I, and in Commerce for Level-II.
- Teacher talk / Expert talk on different resources for teaching Commerce.
- Teacher talk / Invited lecture on different methods of teaching Commerce.
- Teacher talk / Invited lecture on the place of Commerce in school curriculum.