COURSE OBJECTIVES
Equip students to teach Commerce, Business Studies, and Accountancy.
Unit-I: AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF TEACHING COMMERCE
Commerce: Meaning, Nature and Scope. Aims and Objectives of teaching Commerce in schools – Instructional Objectives and Behavioural Objectives – Need and Importance of Instructional Objectives. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Instructional Objectives: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor Domains, Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy 2001 (Anderson & Krathwohl). Interrelation among the domains – Correlation between subjects – Values of Teaching Commerce.
Unit-II: TEACHING SKILLS
Micro-Teaching: Concept, Definition, Steps, Cycle – Micro-teaching Vs Macro-Teaching. Skills: Skill of Set Induction, Skill of Explaining, Skill of Questioning, Probing Skills, Skill of Stimulus Variation, Skill of Reinforcement, Skill of Non-verbal Clues, Skill of Closure. Link Lesson – Model Episode.
Unit-III: APPROACHES OF TEACHING COMMERCE
Approaches of Lesson Planning – Steps – Organizing Teaching: Memory Level (Herbartian Model), Understanding Level (Morrison Teaching Model), Reflective Level (Bigge and Hunt Teaching Model). Unit Plan – Lesson Plan Writing.
Unit-IV: METHODS OF TEACHING
Teacher-Centred Instruction: Lecture Method, Demonstration, and Team Teaching. Learner-Centred Instruction: Self-Learning – Forms of Self-Learning: Programmed Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Keller Plan, Project Method, Activity Based Learning (ABL), Active Learning Method (ALM), Mind Map, and Advanced Active Learning Method (AALM).
Unit-V: INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA
Classification of Instructional Media in Commerce – Use of Mass Media in Classroom Instruction. New Emerging Media: Tele-Conferencing, Communication Satellites, Computer Networking, Word Processors, Blended Learning, Flipped Classroom, Artificial Intelligence, and Augmented Reality. Community Resources: Field Trips, Commerce Exhibition/Fair, Commerce Resource Centre, Commerce Club. Qualities of a Good Commerce Textbook – Qualities of a Good Commerce Teacher.
CURRICULUM INCLUDES
- Principles of accounting.
- Business organization and management.
- Economics related to business.
- Pedagogy of commerce education.
- ICT in commerce teaching.