Question Bank - Child Development and Pedagogy

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Which is the most effective strategy to encourage conceptual development in children?

A.
Keep punishing students till they make the required changes.
B.
Getting children to forget old concepts and learn new ones by rote memorization.
C.
Give a variety of examples and non-examples and encourage students to use reasoning.
D.
Rewarding students each time they make a conceptual change in their schema.

Solution:

Concept development is an innovative process in which schools should design structure and systems to unleash the creative potential of the students in the schools. It is necessary to understand that being creative and innovative means not just novelty but essentially innovation incorporating a high degree of usefulness.Ways to encourage conceptual development in children-By giving them best suitable examples related to the concepts.By organizing Hand-on-activities, group discussions, and experiments to build their concept best.By connecting the concept to the daily life and environment of the students, by which they can get it easily.By using teaching-learning materials, models, and projects.By using different methods of teaching such as Inductive method, deductive method etc.So by all the above point we conclude that option (3) is the correct answer.?Important Points Punishment is not a way to develop concepts in students, it can affect students' minds negatively.It is also possible that the student should be pushed towards rote or memorized learning by giving them rewards, surprises, etc.

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