Odisha LTR Teacher flashcards
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- Odisha Day
- Utkal Divas or Odisha Day is observed on 1 April, marking the 1936 creation of Odisha as a separate province under the Government of India Act 1935.
- Chilika Lake
- Asia's largest brackish-water lagoon, located on the Odisha coast; Satapada is famous for Irrawaddy dolphins and Nalabana island for migratory birds.
- Similipal
- A tiger reserve and biosphere reserve in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, known for dense sal forests, elephants, and the melanistic tiger population.
- Konark Sun Temple
- A 13th-century UNESCO World Heritage Site in Odisha built by King Narasimhadeva I, shaped as a colossal chariot with 24 wheels and seven horses.
- Odisha legislature strength
- The Odisha Legislative Assembly has 147 elected members; the state elects 21 Lok Sabha members and 10 Rajya Sabha members.
- Article 21A
- Inserted by the 86th Constitutional Amendment in 2002, it makes free and compulsory education a fundamental right for children aged six to fourteen.
- Mahanadi
- Odisha's longest river, roughly 851 km, rising in Chhattisgarh and forming a large delta near Cuttack before draining into the Bay of Bengal.
- Pattachitra
- A traditional cloth-based scroll painting of Odisha, centred on Raghurajpur, depicting Jagannath and mythological themes with natural colours and fine lines.
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Vygotsky's term for the gap between what a learner can do independently and what they can do with guidance; scaffolding targets this zone.
- Piaget's concrete operational stage
- The stage from about 7 to 11 years when children master conservation, classification and reversibility, but still reason mainly about concrete objects.
- Formative assessment
- Ongoing, low-stakes assessment used to diagnose learning and adjust teaching; it is assessment for learning rather than a final judgement.
- Inclusive education
- An approach where the school adapts curriculum, seating and assessment so that diverse learners, including those with disabilities, learn in a common classroom.
- Kohlberg conventional level
- The second level of moral reasoning, where right and wrong are judged by social approval, family expectations, and maintaining law and order.
- Bloom's revised taxonomy
- A hierarchy of objectives ordered Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate, Create; the first three are lower-order and the last three higher-order.
- Dyscalculia
- A specific learning disability affecting number sense, arithmetic facts and calculation, not explained by low general intelligence or poor teaching.
- RTE Act 2009
- Indian law guaranteeing free and compulsory education for ages 6-14, banning screening tests and corporal punishment, and reserving 25 percent seats in private schools.
- Erikson industry versus inferiority
- The psychosocial crisis of roughly ages 6-12, where success in school and peer tasks builds competence, while repeated failure breeds feelings of inferiority.
- Pythagoras' theorem
- In a right triangle the square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of squares on the other two sides, so a squared plus b squared equals c squared.
- Simple interest formula
- Simple interest equals principal multiplied by rate percent multiplied by time in years, then divided by one hundred; it ignores compounding.
- Photosynthesis equation
- Six carbon dioxide plus six water, using light energy and chlorophyll in chloroplasts, produce one glucose and six oxygen molecules.
- Newton's second law
- The acceleration of a body is directly proportional to the net force and inversely proportional to its mass, expressed as force equals mass times acceleration.
- Dandi March
- Gandhi's 1930 Salt Satyagraha march from Sabarmati to Dandi, launching civil disobedience against the British salt tax.
- Tropic of Cancer in India
- The latitude of about 23.5 degrees north crosses eight Indian states, including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram.
- Bile
- A digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; it emulsifies fats into small droplets but contains no digestive enzymes.
- Area of a trapezium
- Half the sum of the two parallel sides multiplied by the perpendicular distance between them; used for quadrilaterals with one pair of parallel sides.
- Odia classical language status
- Odia was declared a classical language of India in 2014, recognised for its ancient literary record beginning with the Charyapada.
- Panchasakha
- The five 16th-century Odia devotional poets: Balarama Das, Jagannatha Das, Ananta Das, Achyutananda Das and Jasobanta Das.
- Jagannatha Das
- The Odia poet who translated the Bhagavata into Odia, a work revered as the Odia Bhagabata and read aloud in village assemblies.
- Fakir Mohan Senapati
- A founder of modern Odia prose, author of Chha Mana Atha Guntha, considered the first Odia novel, and of short stories and autobiography.
- Utkalamani
- The title given to Gopabandhu Das, Odia poet and social reformer who founded the Satyabadi school and wrote Dharmapada.
- Odia script direction
- Odia is written left to right in a Brahmic-derived script with eleven vowels and a set of consonants, using hasanta and anusvara marks.
- Samasa
- Odia compound formation joining words into one unit; main types are dwanda, bahubrihi, karma-dharaya and dwigu, each with different head-word rules.