sharing good practices
DESCRIPTION
"Sharing good practices" is a meaningful PPT prepared and presented by me to my colleagues in August 2014, in Lotus Valley International School, Gurgaon India. It talks all about, how a facilitator can make teaching learning interesting, happening and fun for children as small as in Grade 1. This presentation is full of new ideas and usage of graphic organizers which are trans disciplinary in nature and can be used in during group activities too. please have a look and share your comments.TRANSCRIPT
SHARING GOOD PRACTICES
All students are different in personality, ability and learning styles.
As such, there is no single method, theory, or set of learning materials that can successfully teach all children.
We have be familiar with a wide range of teaching strategies in order to create a balanced combination that will help all the students in the classroom, regardless of grade level.
These strategies are fun, interesting, and easy to incorporate into your classroom.
Students learn to think critically and all these strategies encourage them to use their prior knowledge and experience and apply it to the task.
DEAR PROGRAMME Drop Everything And Read The DEAR programme
should be followed by the learners and facilitators together at the same time religiously once a week.
Flamingoes have started following it on every Tuesday.
READING AT HOME To promote reading at home a
reading log has been developed along with a circular, which will be sent to parents to encourage their children to read age appropriate literature.
This Log will contain the record of the child’s reading .
Books, parents read to child Books, child reads to parent Books, parents and child read
together
PICK UP A PENCIL AND WRITE To promote writing skills amongst the
learners. The learners are free to write on any topic
of their choice. Choices by the facilitator can be : a piece of music like “Mozart” an artifact can be kept in the front. a visual display using the smart board. a simple clue “ what did you do yesterday
in the park. Students are using creative writing note
books for this purpose. Flamingoes are following it on every Friday
in the zero period.
TEACHING STRATEGIES
READING – POP CORN STRATEGYThe teacher starts reading the text.
After reading a few sentences, the teacher “popcorns” to a student chosen at random.
This student must read a set minimum amount of text, perhaps two or three sentences before naming another student to read by calling “popcorn”.
CONCEPT MAP Concept map is a
transdsiciplinary teaching strategy and they're easy to construct and can be used within any subject area.
The learner has to arrange all the associated words around the bubble to make connection .
It helps students to make meaningful connections between the main idea and other information.
o It helps children organize new information.
Concept map used during Hindi lesson.
SAMPLE OF WORK
How I spent my holidays.
‘ee’ ki matra.
FISH BONE STRATEGY TEMPLATE
Fishbone diagram is used in various sectors in order to structure, indentify and look at the big picture of the problem. An effective tool to be used during Social Studies.The topic that is being analyzed forms the head of the fish. Relevant key points to go along the bones.
FISH BONE STRATEGY USED DURING ‘PLANTS’
SAMPLE OF STUDENTS’ WORK
DIAMOND RANKING STRATEGYThe diamond ranking strategy is an excellent means of encouraging thinking amongst the learners.Here students were given set of words usually nine, related to plant products.They ranked/arranged these products in the order of their importance, relevance or significance.
DIAMOND RANKING STRATEGY DURING THINGS WE GET FROM PLANTS.
SAMPLE OF STUDENTS’ WORKIn his picture the student placed the word ‘oxygen’ on the top position and for her ‘oil’ is least important plant product.
Where as in this picture you can see ‘wood’ is most important and ‘decoration’ is least important purpose of the plants for another child.
KWL CHARTBefore beginning the topic.
An effective tool to assess student’s prior knowledge.
Third column will be done after the concept is over.
KWL CHART USED TO ASSESS STUDENT’S PRIOR KNOWLEDGE.
SAMPLE OF STUDENTS’ WORK
VENN DIAGRAM
Venn diagrams were conceived around 1880 by John Venn.
This strategy can also be used across al the subject areas.
An interesting representation of how two things are different then each other and in the circle which is overlapping it shows the similarities between them.
PET AND WILD ANIMALS
SAMPLE OF STUDENTS’ WORK
WHY ONLY DICTATION (WHERE IS THE VARIATION?)
We are taking dictations of regularly. The sole purpose is to learn and revise the words and ultimately add them into your vocabulary.
If the sole purpose of dictation is to revise the words, then let’s think of changing the style and do some variation.
Give same words in the form of fill in the blanks.
Another variation can be fill in the missing vowels.
COMPLETE THE WORDSStudents were shocked and they insisted me to give them the usual dictation .
I motivated them a bit and see the result in the next slide!!!!
SAMPLE OF STUDENTS’ WORKTe learners attempted the same words and at the same time enhanced their Thinking skills. No full memorization.
INFORMAL ASSESSMENT
Excellent understanding.
Understands but needs little more help.
Completely lost. Not clear at all.
