Enhancing the learning spectrum of the teacher

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Last week, was truly a learning experience. The use of newspaper as a tool to teach maths was an eyeopener.I learnt to see newspaper and blackboard organisation as effective means to connect with my learners. This has lead me to create a 'Q'- space for my class 6 students where I write all the questions they ask me in class. The questions are not always...

Friday, July 30, 2010 by Smitha · 0 Comment/s

Workshop on learning spectrum

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It's true that learning environment has a profound impact on student learning.When discussion on learning environment initiated,the first thought that struck me was that of a bright classroom with a colourful and attractive bulletin board.But honestly speaking,for me the mere mention of bulletin board gives me goosebumps!!From searching a suitable...

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Enriched Ways to Teach and Learn

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The session on learning spectrum focused on effective ways of using teaching tools like blackboard, newspaper,outside the classroom etc. It was defenetly an ENRICHMENT learning. Every teacher knows to use a blackboard but how many of us actually make a blueprint of it? The bulletin board is a great idea to keep the concepts in a students mind running...

Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Ashwini Jayaram · 0 Comment/s

Group Work is Awesome

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The moment I see a group work to do in my lesson plan I was never happy as I thought it always created chaos and children never finish on time. Also I wondered if children really learnt something at the end of the day. BUT, after having experienced it my self during the CIDTT session I realised that it enhances the whole process of learning in...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 by Bi · 0 Comment/s

Evaluation

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I am Computer Science teacher for Grade 1-3. I used to take feedback from my learners just by asking them orally "Hope you all understood". By hearing the spontaneous feedback "Yes" from some of my learners, I would move on...... During the session “Evaluation”, the question arrived in my mind. Am I leaving some learners unnoticed who are not so...

Monday, July 26, 2010 by Nisha · 0 Comment/s

Group Work

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Whenever I think of my school days all I can remember is trying to listen and to understand.And there is so much silence.The few things that I can remember and cherish are the moments where I could participate or contribute. Group work is a new concept for me.Group work gives the students a lot of space to learn.It helps the teacher to understand that...

Friday, July 23, 2010 by deepa · 1 Comment/s

Quality of learning in group

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After last week's workshop on 'Learning in groups', the group activity I chose for my class 6 learners was to enact an English Mythological story on Arjuna as a drama. The groups were divided based on the number-head system of grouping. The class was so excited that they followed most of the 'ground rules' that were laid out in the preparatory classes...

Thursday, July 22, 2010 by Smitha · 0 Comment/s

Teaching tools...

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I realised that Black board or should I say white/green board, is such a powerful tool. When managed properly it allowsyou to guide through your teaching and also gives you the much deserved flow. I also noticed that when you prepare a blue print of the board and when the same thing gets unfolded before students, they just love it. Because we plan...

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 by Usha · 3 Comment/s

Learning in groups-interesting and productive

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The session on 'learning in groups' by Asha was an eye opener for me.The session commenced with an activity in which we were asked to work individualistically and then in groups followed by a joint discussion.The comparison of feelings while working in two different situatons brought to light the advantages of learning in a group as compared to...

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Transformation of my thinking process after the session on Group

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We had a session on Group We were asked to try out the group method of learning. I being a intrapersonal , I was little adamant in group work technique. But after going through the session and the outcome gave me a positive thrust to try out. I teach compute science to the secondary grade. Today I had two 7 grade classes having 18 students in each...

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Rediscovering ............

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Yesterday's workshop on 'Learning in groups' had me thinking at the beginning of the session " how do I organise group work within the time period, when we as adults took much longer to do the same activities meant for the learners?" My notion was very quickly modified,...

Sunday, July 18, 2010 by Smitha · 3 Comment/s

Value Addition

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During the last session at CIDTT, We just happened to discuss the role of Value addition in the agriculture sector as I work at the agriculture university . What is value Addition In general, adding value is the process of changing or transforming a product from its original...

Friday, July 16, 2010 by Ashwini Jayaram · 1 Comment/s

Change in perspective

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This is one of my favorite Subhashita , which literally means 'good speech', essence is given below: " The knowledge that is in a book, the money that is with another person; of what use are the two if they are not helpful in time of need; if so, one can no longer call it knowledge or money ! " This was the first thing that came to my mind after...

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A Session by Design

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Fatima Chinoy's module on " Designing an Effective Programme/ session Plan" delivered on 10th July,2010,was indeed an 'effective' one. For one, the session unfolded in a very informal manner and before we knew it, we were designing a Programme Plan to teach 'Indus Valley Civilization' to Class 8 students. The module was designed to be a hands- on...

Monday, July 12, 2010 by Renu Varghese · 2 Comment/s

My process of learning innovative futuristic ideas to teach the young dynamic minds

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My passion to teach others started when my father bought me a black board.Then it continued in my high school and college in helping my fellow classmates in a few lessons.Then later I joined a futuristic company called Tutorvista which catered to the needs of students online all over the world.This was a great opportunity for a homemaker like me. A...

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HERCULEAN TASK

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Designing aims and objectives for a lesson was always like a herculean task for me!I did'nt have a clear understanding of these terms and always had apprehensions about writing a lesson plan because defining aims and objectives is the first and most important step for successful teaching and learning to take place in class. But today after attending...

Saturday, July 10, 2010 by Tripta · 1 Comment/s

Taking Stock

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Eighteen years of teaching! Time to stand aside and take stock of my teaching. I had always been an instinctive teacher. I plan my academic year and break it down to fort nightly topics and work each class as it came. I have always worked very very hard to reach out to all my students. Keeping a wary eye for that glazed look that creeps into the eyes...

Friday, July 9, 2010 by Renu Varghese · 1 Comment/s