Read the following passage carefully: Exchange an apple for an orange and you still have one each, but if you exchange an idea for another, you have two. Ideas are worth something when expressed and exchanged. 2. Ideally, our classrooms are deemed to be laboratories to explore and experiment with ideas. But how many teachers encourage inquiry, discussion and exchange of ideas? Or when was it that our students 'learned to learn' through exploration and research? How many have thought "why do students ask what they ask?" Or simply put, how many are glad when they ask the right questions? 3. A student with a research Bent of mind once raised a question in my class discussion: "Why is it called research? Will search not suffice?" Well, we all raise such questions at different stages of progress. Every question of intellectual curiosity is a serious mental adventure and a potential catalyst for search and research. And when every learner starts working on such an ethos to treat learning, as not yet wholly solved problems; we are in a 'research mode'. We start inquiring- researching and learning! 4. Typically, it is argued that traditional teaching is dominated by cerebral, overly- analytical models that characteristically rely on teacher- talk and learners' writing. Such a chalk-walk-talk learning is often based on a teacher-dominated 'information transmission' with emphasis on understanding research findings rather than research process. And if a teacher continues to teach how they themselves were taught as learners"with the assumption that what worked for them will work every time, for everyone", learning becomes obsolete. So the question is "when was the last time we encouraged our students to ask or do something for the first time?" 5. If we aim at improving the quality of teaching - learning and accept that current practice is probably based on a questionable data; a clear alternative solution lies in research embedded learning. When the element of a participatory approach between the teacher and the taught is set with a common pursuit of linking research, we are set for Research Informed Teaching. In fact, a Research-based teaching is far superior to teach us mugging from textbooks. Answer the following questions: (i) Bring out the difference between exchanging fruits and exchanging ideas. (ii) What should teachers do in the classroom? (iii) What kind of teaching happens in our classroom? (iv) Why is it called 'research'? (v) Generally, how do teachers feel when students ask questions? (vi) Find the word in the passage that means the same as ' cerebra
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(i) Bring out the difference between exchanging fruits and exchanging ideas.
- Exchange an apple for an orange and you still have one each, but if you exchange an idea for another, you have two. Ideas are worth something when expressed and exchanged
(ii) What should teachers do in the classroom?
- The teachers should encourage inquiry, discussion and exchange of ideas?
(iii) What kind of teaching happens in our classroom?
- Ideally, our classrooms are deemed to be laboratories to explore and experiment with ideas.
- The students learn through exploration and research.
(iv) Why is it called 'research'?
- Every question of intellectual curiosity is a serious mental adventure and a potential catalyst for search and research.
(v) Generally, how do teachers feel when students ask questions?
- And if a teacher continues to teach they themselves were taught as learners"with the assumption that what worked for them will work every time, for everyone", learning becomes obsolete.
(vi) Find the word in the passage that means the same as ' cerebra
- Cerebral
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Answer the following questions:
(i) Bring out the difference between exchanging fruits and exchanging ideas.
Ans:- In the above given passage,we come to know that if we exchange a fruit,we give one fruit and we get one fuit,but if we share ideas with other person,the ideas multiply because we recieve their idea and we give our ideas.Therefore the exchange of ideas is much better.
(ii) What should teachers do in the classroom?
Ans:-The teachers must encourage the students to do inquiry, discussion and exchange of ideas.
(iii) What kind of teaching happens in our classroom?
Ans:- The teachers are simply focussing on teaching without trying to understand if their students are learning or not.But if they are teaching then they must make teaching interactive.They must ask students to do some research about the topic and learn.
(iv) Why is it called 'research'?
Ans:- Well, we all raise such questions at different stages of progresswe all raise such questions at different stages of progress. Every question of intellectual curiosity is a serious mental adventure and a potential catalyst for search and research. And when every learner starts working on such an ethos to treat learning, as not yet wholly solved problems; we are in a 'research mode'. We start inquiring- researching and learning!
(v) Generally, how do teachers feel when students ask questions?
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(vi) Find the word in the passage that means the same as ' cerebra