Megha Cuckoo

  Audio-Visual Aids are the instructional method of education that uses audio and visual as a mode of learning. The literal meaning of audio is hearing and visual means that is seen by eyes.  Audio-Visual aids are devices that are used in the classroom to make learning engaging and easy. These can also help teachers to communicate messages or information in places where regular teaching fails. Audio-Visual aids motivate them towards the subjects they don’t find interesting. It is a known fact that individuals tend to forget things. With creative methods like images of characters, objects, and voiceovers, it attracts the attention of students. It also helps them to retain what they learn.  Audio-Visual aids give a complete learning atmosphere for students. It lets them experience practical experience from the comfort of the classroom. It makes learning more realistic and lively for students. These aids offer the students to have gained a positive understanding of...

  Formal education or formal learning  usually takes place in the premises of the school, where a person may learn basic, academic, or trade skills. Small children often attend a nursery or kindergarten but often formal education begins in elementary school and continues with secondary school. Post-secondary education (or higher education) is usually at a college or university which may grant an academic degree. It is associated with a specific or stage and is provided under a certain set of rules and regulations.  The formal education is given by specially qualified teachers they are supposed to be efficient in the art of instruction. It also observes strict discipline. The student and the teacher both are aware of the facts and engage themselves in the process of education. Examples of Formal Education Learning in a classroom School grading/certification, college,  and university degrees Planned education of different subjects having a proper syllabu...

  Educational psychology has contributed considerably to the creation of the modern system of education. The knowledge of educational psychology helps the teacher in the following ways:  1. To understand the Stages of Development: Psychology has clearly shown that human life passes through different stages of development before it reaches adulthood. They are infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Psychologists have also thoroughly studied the characteristic behaviour patterns in these different periods of life. Identification of these periods with different sets of characteristics and attributes as regards physical, mental and emotional development greatly help educationists to design curriculum and determine appropriate methods of teaching for students at different stages.  2. To Know the Learner: The child or the learner is the key factor in the teaching-learning process. Educational psychology helps the teacher to know his interests, attitudes, aptitudes and t...

  Here are 10 fast math strategies students (and adults!) can use to do math in their heads. Once these strategies are mastered, students should be able to accurately and confidently solve math problems that they once feared solving. 1. Adding large numbers Adding large numbers just in your head can be difficult. This method shows how to simplify this process by making all the numbers a multiple of 10. Here is an example: 644 + 238 While these numbers are hard to contend with, rounding them up will make them   more manageable. So, 644 becomes 650 and 238 becomes 240. Now, add 650 and 240 together. The total is 890. To find the answer to the original equation, it must be determined how much we added to the numbers to round them up. 650 – 644 = 6 and 240 – 238 = 2 Now, add 6 and 2 together for a total of 8 To find the answer to the original equation, 8 must be subtracted from the 890. 890 – 8 = 882 So the answer to 644 +238 is 882. 2. Su...

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: ‘I am blind, please help.’ There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words. Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, ‘Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?’ The man said, ‘I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.’ What he had written was: ‘Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.’ Life Lesson:   Reframe your perspective. Think differently. Make a difference.