Constructivism: Collaborative learning Strategy in teaching of Social Sciences

In a global and knowledge based age, a teacher has to increase students’ appetite for more knowledge and variety of skills to cater to global demands. For the Development of the Knowledge and skills in a teacher, required changes have to be made in the instructions, at the teacher training level. These instructions generate new ideas and abilities in a student trainee. The instructions have to be simple and practical and have to inspire Teachers, who are required to bring changes into classroom teaching and learning. For this, the teacher educators must develop an environment to help the student trainees to construct the knowledge about various strategies which can be used to improve educational achievements of the pupils at secondary school level in different subjects. Social Sciences as an important subject at the school level, needs new techniques for teaching and learning process. The educated world has begun to appreciate the enormous potentialities of the subject since, it enhances link between Social Sciences and social realities. So it is an energizing and rapidly evolving field which demands new strategies and skills for teaching and learning.