Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes

To be a good citizen, you have to prepare yourself to do good work in society. Well, than how can you prepare yourself.

First,

You need knowledge. Today's society is knowledge-based. Without having knowledge of modern science, technologies including ICT and others necessary subject, you will have difficulty living a good life. The other areas you, as a good citizen, should have knowledge about are:

*our country, it's constitution , geography and people

*our state, it's executive and legislative powers

*our judicial system

*our government, it's structures and functions

*our history, cultures, traditions, literature, moral values and religions

*our socio-economic activities and educational system

Second,

You need skills to do things. Knowledge is not enough. You must be able to apply your knowledge to do things practically.

Finally,

Knowing and doing things will bring about a change in your behaviour towards others. This behaviour change will show your attitudes towards others, that is, it will show how you think and feel about a person or thing.

Let's take an example . Suppose, you are a student, need to know about 'group work' in the classroom. So, you ask yourself or your teacher or anyone else, " what is group work" Or you may find about it in a book. In this way, you may know or you may have the knowledge about group work. To do group work, the class has to be divided into groups. Each group is to do some tasks given by the teacher or in the text book. The group members will discuss and share idea and points, and family, one member will write the answer.

Then,

you start working in groups. In each group, you take turns discussing points and answering questions. In this way, you can, actually, do the task. Your teacher may monitor and help you to do the work.

Lastly,

through regular group work it is expected that there will be noticeable changes in your behaviour. Possible changes are:

* You will develop the skill of speaking freely in English with your classmates and teacher.

* Your shyness will gradually disappear.

* You will develop the attitude of helping and cooperating with each other.

* You will learn to behave in a democratic way.

Most importantly, these behaviourl changes taking place in you inside the classroom will be carried over outside the classroom in real-life situations.