1.Village Library
Dijendra Banerjy, Founder President, Shashimohan Banerjy Memorial
Library, Chirirbandar, Dinajpur
Presently, there is hardly any library facility in the villages. If, with the
support of local elites a library is developed in the village that can help the
children and adolescents of that locality to be enlightened. The community
can take care of this village based library. In the libraries, in addition to
reading facilities, there should be opportunities of recreation. In the
executive committee, there should be secretaries for culture, literature and
drama. They will support the children and adolescents to get training to
enhance their skill in these areas. Such a model is Shoshi Banerjy Smrity
Pathagar (library), which was established in 1987 in a remote village of
Dinajpur district. Since then, this library has been working as an effective
model. In addition to enhance reading habit of the children and adolescents
the library takes various development initiatives in the locality like tree
plantation, organising cultural events for the children, extend support to the
flood and clold wave affected people. As a result, it helps the community
including children to be enlightened. The model of Shoshi Banerjy Smrity
pathagar reveals that a library can help the nation to be enlightened.
2. Creative Method in Developing Question-Answer Skills
Ataur Rahman Sayem, Senior Teacher (Bangla), Saint Gregories High School,
Dhaka
Government of Bangladesh has refurbished the secondary and higher
secondary education system to modernize and improve the quality of
education. A student’s talent is uncovered to development with creative
method of learning leaving behind his/her memorising technique. But if
someone is not well aware of the technique then students’ creativeness
cannot be assessed appropriately. Hence, teachers need proper training to
achieve 100% success from the technique. All the chapters of the textbooks
are prepared in line with specific learning results. Question paper can be
developed in various ways in line with the learning, where, reflection of
knowledge, understanding and application of higher skills will be there.
Stimulation will get priority in firs stage and gradually, subjects of higher skills
will get priority. The stimulation will be the basic and that can be individual
based. On the other hand opinion cannot be taken from student for
application and skill part of their learning. The creativeness of the student can
be uncovered by this method. Any multiple choice question paper should be
developed considering the four stages of thinking skill, where, 40% questions
should be to assess knowledge, 30% to assess understanding, 20% to assess
gained knowledge and 10% to assess the analysis and evaluation skills. In
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