Since the earliest days of organized education, teachers have asked questions such as: What should we teach? How should we teach? How should we organize knowledge? How should we assess learning? It is a rare educator who cannot supply a wealth of reasoned and reasonable answers to these questions. Why then, after so many years, […]

A document on Micro teaching Download : Micro-teaching-and-its-need Archna Sharma

What is a “Learning Organization”?   The word “learning” was coined in the 1980s to describe organizations that experimented with new ways of conducting business in order to survive in turbulent, highly competitive markets (see Argyris and Schon 1996; also Senge 1990). Table 1 presents the characteristics that define the learning organization, and the positive […]

One of the primary functions of the human brain is pattern recognition. The brain comes into existence seeking out patterns—categories—in our environment. One of the earliest bits of categorization in which a human infant engages is distinguishing between what is me and what is not me. Later, the patterns/categories are labeled in words to simplify […]