CURRICULUM TEACHING LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT

CURRICULUM TEACHING LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT

Darvesh Karim

Assistant Instructor

Professional Development Center, North

University Road, Konodass, Gilgit.

Ph. No: (+92) 05811-454132-4 Ext: 3017

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TASK A:

I had a perception that a child learns according to his mental capacity gradually but after going through the article ‘A theory of teaching as assisted performance’ written by Roland Tharp and Ronald Gallimore, in which specifically they discuss about the zone of proximal development (ZPD). This knowledge come to me and of-course it challenged my previous assumption and clarified that no doubt the child will learn according to his mental level ‘gradually’ but the ability to solve problems by his own will be in a ‘slow motion process’. This process can be accelerated further by the assistance of teachers, parents and more capable peers. So in between the child’s individual capacity of knowledge and assisted capacity of knowledge is assumed as ZPD. Through this process the development process increases rapidly. This process continues through out the life.

The second assumption which was also challenged and I had to accommodate the new concept and knowledge and had to build-on it. It was my understanding and assumption that any child use to be a blank piece of paper mentally and for his/her development, parents, teachers and the environment plays vital roles to add new information and knowledge. The new concept of different smartnesses or the multiple intelligences of the child is to be kept in mind during the teaching learning process. As it is very much clear to me that initially every body is quite different from each other and this difference has been categorized and presented as multiple intelligence theory by dividing the abilities to seven different groups like, word smart, picture smart, body smart , music smart, people smart and self smart. This understanding came to me through the article ‘The Foundations of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences’ written by Thomas Armstrong.