Méthodes et techniques d’illustrations d’une leçon de géographie physique: cas des classes de 6ème au lycée de mballa II.

Abstract

This work titled: “Methods and Techniques of Teaching a physical Geography Lesson in Form I of Government High School MBALLA II", seeks to find out if the methods and techniques of teaching/learning using Competency-Based Approach (CBA) enhance learners’ skills in geography. In this perspective, an analysis was conducted with data from primary and secondary sources, digital sources and interviews with resource persons. A Hypothetico-deductive approach was adopted which allowed the verification of hypotheses. From the results, it emerged that teaching/learning methods and techniques effectively reinforce Form I students’ skills in geography in GHS MBALLA II. These results show an effective application of active techniques and methods in teaching geography in Form I and a clear evolution of learners' skills in geography with 97% of learners with scores between (10-20) against 3% with scores between (0-10) couple with a 75.69% success rate in the ‘BEPC’ official exams from 2014 to 2018. Despite the effective implementation of the CBA in the educational system in Cameroon, there were several difficulties, namely lack of training on the part of teachers on the new approach, lack of teaching materials, insufficient time, plethoric classes; students’ ages and finally economic orders hinder teaching using the CBA in secondary school. Several solutions have been proposed such as training and retraining of teachers with this new approach, the organization of seminars within the school, the provision of teaching materials etc... Some recommendations have also been proposed to educational stakeholders to address all these difficulties that teachers face in teaching using the CBA.