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NURTURING EDUCATORS, LEARNERS THROUGH NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS TO CREATE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

Dr. Lokesh Tripathi

Volume: 3 Issue: 3 2013

Abstract:

Teachers are the individual who provides education to any learner i.e. the student of our today's schools. Our role is often formal and ongoing, carried out in classroom or any other place of formal education. In our country, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional qualification from a university or college. These professional qualifications include the study of pedagogy, the science of teaching. Teachers may use a lesson plan to facilitate student learning, providing a course of study which is called the curriculum. A teacher's role may vary among the different school setup around us but s/he facilitates for literacy and numeracy, craftsmanship or vocational training, the arts, religion, civics, community roles, or life skills and many more things. The facilitation by teacher if I grounded on the principles of teacher centered instruction, stifles the creativity of the teacher too, leading to a negative impact on the learner. For example, when the students are asked to write about an issue from their environment, the replication of themes such as 'pollution', 'the environment and trees' is mostly attempted which indicates the role of teacher in steering student to replicate the themes that are within the formal setting of the school. Whereas Jomon (1996) has reported that creative methods, approaches and processes if used by the teacher frequently found 'thing that can be used as a 'tool to attain the objectives of environmental education viz. knowledge, awareness attitude, participation and skill

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