Play and Learn....

"Presented article talks about Game Based Teaching Model (GBTM) that applies inquiry as a strategy to teach and learn, connect classroom teaching with real life experiences and prove as a useful demonstration tool for instructions in physics classrooms. It advocates motivating children to learn through their surrounding games. This methodology may serve to teach physics principles to middle and high school students using play as the basic component of the approach. It also develops skills of pre-knowledge, logical reasoning, concentration and nurture inquisition based scientific temperament in learner. It further develops strategy making and problem solving (monitoring) among the students. This model displays how to overcome traditional teaching methods (pure lecturing and chalk-talk), how to draw student’s attention in the class and how to convert initial ‘thrust’ into ‘ample engagement’ strengthening active learning"

Published in Teacher (A Magazine of Australian Council for Educational Research); Vol.8 No.3 (2014)6-9.