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UNIT PLAN
The document defines a unit plan as a comprehensive block of related subject matter selected based on its relationship to students' needs, interests, and capabilities. It lists the characteristics of a good unit plan as considering students' needs and interests, providing varied learning experiences, relating to students' environment, and being flexible. The merits of a unit plan include providing continuity in learning, developing scientific skills, facilitating the use of resources, and allowing systematic presentation of material. Potential demerits are that unit planning is difficult, can lack freshness, be time-consuming, overburden teachers, and lead to mechanical or monotonous teaching.
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UNIT PLAN
- 1. S. Anbalagan, Assistant Professorof Mathematics Thiagarajar College of Preceptors, Madurai Unit Plan
- 2. Unit Plan Definition ofunit plan 1. Acc. To Morrison H.C “ A unit is a comperhensive and significant aspect of the environment of an orgaized science and art” 2.Acc. To Preston “ A unit is a large a block of related subject matter as can be overviewed by the learner” 3. acc. To samford “A unit is an outline of carefully selected subject matter which has been isolated because of its relationships to pupuils needs and interests.
- 3. Characteristics of goodunit plan 1. It should take the in to account the needs, the interests and the capabilities. 2. It should provide a variety of field trips, experiments, demonstration and project etc. 3. The material of the unit plan should consists of familier and related topics. 4.It should be related to the social and physical environment of the children. 5.It should provide new experiences which the children not experience earlier. 6. The pervious knowledge, experience and background of the pupils should be given due importance.
- 4. 7. It shoudidhelp and satisfy some of the furture needs of the children. 8. It should be the result of the co-operative planning of the teacher and pupils as far as possible. 9. The length of the unit shoud be such as to maintain the interest of the students. 10.It should be flexible.
- 5. Merits of unitPlan 1. Unit planning provide opportunit fro continutiy in learning. 2. It develops scientfic attitude, problem-solving, critical thinking, skills and scientific inquiry among the children. 3. It helps in the selection of new activites experiences for classroom use. 4. It psycholgically sound approch for effective teaching learning process. 5. It develops the qualities like self-confidence, presistece, security etc in the students. 6. It is also flexible to deal with a wide range of learning situations.
- 6. 7.It facilites theuse of a wide range of resource such as labortary equipments,charts , films,referene magterial as an intergeral part of the learning experience. 8.It provide opprtunity to the teacher to do experimnts with his over ideas in colaboration with pupils. 9.While keeping in mind the mental development of child, the teacher can present subject matter in a systematic, loagical and effective mannner.
- 7. Demeris of unitplan 1. Planning of unit is not easky task. 2. There is lack of freshness. 3. It is time consuming. 4. Overburdening of teacher with written work. 5. Teching becomes mechanical. 6. Use of guide sheets tends to make learning monotonous and steresotyed