The whole purpose of education is achieved when a student finds the essence of the subject, finds out application where it can be applied and employs it to solve the problems. The role of an instructor is to channelize the thoughts of the students in a right direction and make him/her realize that it is the individual’s thought and desire that his enabling him/her further to grasp well and perform better. The visibility of the teacher in the learning process should be more or less like a road sign guiding the students which path to take rather than taking a driver seat and steering the students’ thought process. It is very important as it give confidence within the students in the long run.
Moreover, it should be more or less community oriented. It should include the present day problems one can face in their lives. It has be a scenario where all the students can relate to and perform well. Rather than giving monotonous homework to students, it should a different experience for the students to find new problems, explore the topic well and strengthen their base in the topic. Any topic cannot be raised to a high level at the first instance. It needs gradual building of the topic. The concepts have to be placed like building blocks one by one. By doing this, most of the characteristics listed by Schmidt can be addressed. The model lesson I am going to present following the given instructions and the above stated objectives is ‘Simple Interest’.
Day 1:
Home Assignment: What is interest? Why is it charged? Give some examples when it is charged.
Objectives: Students would be acquainted with a concept called interest and have some beforehand topic
Day2:
The video would be designed in such a way that it opens as a real life scenario occurring between a money lender and an illiterate. The terms stated by money lender are not comprehensible for the farmer. So, the farmer goes to his friend to understand the concept of ‘Simple Interest’. The friend then explains the key terms used in Simple Interest- Principal, Number of Years, Rate of Interest, and Interest accrued.
Objectives: The sole objective of this activity is to reach out to students and make them understand. This being a digital age, students lack the patience to listen to people for too long. Students have a knack for understanding videos better. Moreover, the interactive videos can have the students stay attentive for longer time.
Home Assignment:
Give them some problems and ask them to solve. The problems would be arranged in such a way that the students not just try and answer it but also gives them chance to build their concepts. The questions would also be a learning experience.
Objectives: The students have questions in their mind about the topic. They start developing doubts which are an integral part of learning process.
Day 3:
