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NICETIES OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION

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  With a rapidly increasing population and a demand to feed billions of people and livestock, the agriculture industry needs talented and professional youth willing to make a commitment to agriculture. In fact, agriculture plays a vital role, being sources of livelihood, contribution to national revenue, supply of food as well as fodder, significance to the international trade, marketable surplus, source of raw material, foreign exchange resources, great employment opportunities, economic development, source of food, nutritional and livelihood security. Despite tremendous progress made by India in the field of industry and services, agriculture continues to play a pivotal role in India’s 2 trillion economy. Nearly 60 per cent of Indian households depend on farming. Agriculture remains a key contributor to India’s economic development not only by its share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) but also as a drive for industrial growth by producing critical raw materials and by funnelling,

Explaining Physics Through Examples

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 Today a teacher cannot guarantee that the student will be able know the things only when he delivers. Lot of online resources are available to get the things known. The pedagogy of a faculty how he teaches matters a lot. Examples have always played a central role in the development and the teaching of Physics. This blog reports on importance of faculties choice and uses of examples in elementary physics teaching. Selecting an appropriate example become a challenging task with faculties pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) being a determining factor in the process of selecting and using examples. Faculty often enter their classrooms with thousands of hours of experience in their chosen field, and they typically face students who have little to no experience with that field of study. In this way, faculty may take for granted all that they know and are able to do. In a sense, they expect students to “get inside their head.” One of the joys of teaching is finding ways to take complex topic