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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 24: Backward and Delinquent Children: Preventions and Teaching Strategies

Unit 24: Backward and Delinquent Children: Notes

Preventions and Teaching Strategies

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
24.1 Prevention of Backward Children
24.2 Method of Teaching Backward Children
24.3 Prevention and Treatment of Delinquency
24.4 Teaching Strategies for Delinquent Children
24.5 Summary
24.6 Keywords
24.7 Review Questions
24.8 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
• to discuss about the prevention of backward children.
• to explain about the method of teaching for backward children.
• to describe about the prevention of delinquency.
• to explain about treatment and teaching strategies for delinquent children.

Introduction

Backward children are too often interring prated as meaning "being unable to learn". The causes for
backward children learning difficulties can vary greatly. Teaching backward students can be more
difficult than teaching students who are doing well enough or very pupils present a challenge teacher
has to respond to resolving backward children's problems is a major challenge for a teacher. We will
also know about prevention and teacher strategies of delinquent children delinquency is a kind of
abnormality when an individual deviates from the course of normal social life. His behaviour is
called delinquency. When a juvenile below an age specified under a statute exhibits behavior. Which
may prove to be dangerous to society. If is very necessary to prevent it. These children require total
care. So the teaching should be more effective in case of delinquency.
24.1 Prevention of Backward Children

• Provide a quiet place to work, where the child can be easily observed and motivated.
• Keep homework sessions short.
• Provide activity times before and during homework.
• Add a variety of tasks to the learning even if not assigned, such as painting a picture of a
reading assisgnment.
• Allow for success.
• Ask questions about the assignment while the child is working.

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