Develop an understanding of aims and objectives of teaching social studies. 📚
Develop an understanding of pupil teachers concerning curriculum organization. 📊
Acquaint pupil teacher with different methods and audio-visual aids. 📽️
Develop a proper understanding of modern concepts and tools of evaluation. 📝
Develop a proper understanding of the latest developments in current affairs/events. 📰
Organize discussions, seminars, tours, and set up social studies rooms. 🏛️
📘 Syllabus
SECTION – A
Concept, scope, and nature of social studies; difference between social sciences and social studies; aims and objectives of teaching social studies at the school level; significance of social studies as a core subject. 📖
Curricular approaches to teaching of Social Studies: Coordination, Correlational, Concentric, Spiral, Integrated, and Regressive. 🔄
Instructional planning: concept, need, and importance. 📋
SECTION – B
Need and importance of Social studies room; Social Studies Textbook: Need, importance, and qualities. 📚
Social studies teacher: qualities and role. 👩🏫
Audio-visual aids: meaning, importance, projective and non-projective teaching aids: LED projector, Interactive Boards, chalkboard, maps, charts, diagrams, models, pictures, graphs, and globe. 🖥️
Activities (Any one of the following)
Writing instructional objectives in behavioural form for five topics from the textbook. 📝
Preparing a scrapbook of current issues/themes pertaining to the broad area of discipline/subject taken up by the print media. 🗞️
Preparation of a low-cost teaching aid. 📏
📚 Books Recommended
Aggarwal, J.C.: Teaching of Social Studies. 📘
Binning and Binning: Teaching of Social Studies in Secondary Schools, McGrawHill. 📗
Kochher, S.K.: Teaching of Social Studies. 📕
Nasiah, K.: Social Studies in Schools, Oxford. 📙
Sandhu, P.K. : Teaching of Social Studies (Punjabi). 📓
Shaida, B.D. and Shaida, A.K.: Teaching of Social Studies. 📔
Wesley, E.N. : Teaching of Social Studies in High School. 📕
📝 Previous Year Question Papers of Teaching of Social Studies