School science teachers must teach for enhancing own and students' verbal intelligence

Senior School science teachers must teach for enhancing own and students' verbal intelligence

By Lalit Kishore

To be scientifically literate and verbally intelligent, both teachers and students, must be able to not only read and write science from textbooks and other sources of information, but also speak and listen science with its own language, grammar and idioms with intent.

In other words, not only terminology, glossary and vocabulary matters, but intonation and rhythm of reading and speaking also matters.

It has been found that speaking science leads with better scientific literacy often leads better sharing of knowledge of science.

A pedagogical experiment was done at the Plenum School in HP was done in which a boxed summary of lesson was read aloud with pauses on pronouns which a rhythmic sing-song tone which led to reportedly better working memory.

Also, equations, formulas, and abbreviated units were read rhythmically to remember them well. Not only, students enjoyed rhythmic speaking with intonation but good a feel of inner well being,