Hand Book / Teacher's Text in Physical Science

Teacher‟s handbook is an excellent reference material for teachers for effective science teaching.
It contains list of instructional & specific objectives, summarization of chapters, explanation of significant terms &concepts ( products of science), learning activities, learning resources, various kinds of assignments and its guidlines, evaluation tools, seminar, projects, workshops to be organised, suggested reference materials etc. It gives sufficient additional points that teachers can use in classrooms, which are more socially relevant to the immediate surroundings of the students and more acceptable to their cognitive sense. Teacher's handbook serves as a resource &  reference material  that supplement classroom teaching.

Advantages :

• It equips the teacher with sufficient content knowledge , what is to be taught, why is to be taught and how is to be taught ?
• The teachers can choose appropriate learning experience from different alternatives provided, The thread & essence of the concept got from the resource book helps the teacher to develop & bring creative and innovative ideas into classroom.
• It helps the teacher to organize the lesson in a systematic way, conceptual development of the topic/content
• It helps the teacher to adopt  appropriate strategies and techniques in teaching -learning process.
• Helps the teacher to evaluate the learning using relevant and standard tools of evaluation.
• It minimize the effort of  teacher as it serves as a excellent reference material.

Disadvantages : 

• Teacher becomes lazy and does not try to learn more in the topic
• Teacher always takes help from this material other than applying reasoning