Weekly Seminar (Special Session) at Department of Physics

Speaker: Prof. Fida Muhammad

Professor of Physics, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute Topi, Swabi
Title: New trends in learning and teaching
Date: 06/04/2018 at 10:00am (Friday)
Venue:  Conference Hall, Department of Physics, AWKUM


This is a special seminar organized by the Dean Faculty of Physical and Numerical Sciences. Faculty and graduate students of other departments of the Faculty are also invited to attend this special session. Please note the change day and time. All graduate students of the Physics Department are required to attend the seminar. Abstract is given below

New Trends in Teaching and Learning

Dr. Fida Mohammad, GIKI

Talk to be delivered on April 06, 2018 at AWKUM University

Over the past forty years or so Psychologists, Sociologists, Anthropologists,

Evolutionary Biologists, Linguists, Educationists, Neuroscientists, Philosophers, and Learning theorists have studied the process of human learning.

They identified two main problems:

Retention of what students learn and engaging students in what teachers teach

1.     They recommend new teaching strategies to teachers which focus on how to in engage in  the materials being taught i.e students pay attention to whatever they learn (distraction are suppressed)

2.     They suggest learning strategies to learners which are more efficient in learning i.e students don’t forget easily what they learn i.e they retain their learning for a longer time

3.     In my talk I will discuss the newer more effective strategies of teaching which teachers can use to engage learners and enhance learning. Moreover, effective ways of learning will also be discussed which are evidence-based and which experts have found to help in the retention of learning.