A STUDY OF EXISTING TEACHING STRATEGY FOR GEOGRAPHY SUBJECT AT SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SATARA TALUKA

The purpose of this article is to identify the different types of teaching strategies implemented in secondary school geography lessons in Satara taluka. A questionnaire survey was prepared and distributed among the geography teachers who were teaching geography subject for Std. IX. Forty-two teachers responded to the all the questions, which were asked in the questionnaire survey. The Percentage statistical techniques was used for the analyses and interpretation. As found in the study, very few teachers implement different teaching strategies for teaching geography subject for IXth Std. in their geography lessons. Seventy seven percent of the teachers who responded to the questionnaire did not conduct any field visit activity in geography subject while Twenty three of them implemented an in-school field visit activity at least once a week in an educational year. As the study revealed, geography teachers in Satara taluka started using traditional methods including class discussion, asking and answering questions and using domination the classrooms. The study shows that there is scope of activity-based teaching learning at secondary school for geography lessons. However, its success will depend on how much teachers will adapt themselves to the new developments and how they uses activity based teaching strategies for the Geography subject.