COVID - 19 : Preventative measure, Guidelines, Suggestions and course of action to develop learning competency of students in learning process.
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Assignment - 3
Conversation with students and with their parents about Safety measures of COVID-19 and regular follow-ups of studies.
Sunday, 26 July 2020
Assignment - 9
Professional Development on Your Way
Learning is
the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills,
values, attitudes, and preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by
humans, animals, and some machines; there is also evidence for some kind of
learning in certain plants. Some learning is immediate, induced by a single
event (e.g. being burned by a hot stove), but much skill and knowledge
accumulates from repeated experiences
So, learning and studying never stops it goes on until our last breath, it is a long & continuous process. Teacher is always being a mentor and nation builder and having great responsibility on his shoulder. Teacher needs to learn and develop certain kind of skills because a good teacher is a good learner.
For years, professional development went a lot like
this:
(1) You sit.
(2) An outside expert or consultant talks.
(3) You listen.
Many teachers jokingly refer to this format as “Sit
’n’ Git.”
In
the last few years, teachers have started turning this model on its head with
“unconference” gatherings like Edcamp, Cue Rock Star, and PLAYDATE, and with
online tools like Meetup, Twitter, and blogging. The community-driven
experience creates a chemistry and a sense of common purpose not found in
traditional PD. “We learn so much from watching one another, not talking ‘at’
each other or reading a PowerPoint,” says Joanne Miller, who teaches fourth
grade at Pride Elementary in Deltona, Florida.
Finding a safe, supportive venue to bounce around
ideas regularly—whether in a group face-to-face, on a blog, in a staff meeting,
with a friend, or alone in your journal—can be crucial to professional growth.
Ready o make our own PD? Here are few teacher-tried
ways to do it on your own terms.
1 | Go on
(adult) field trips.
Get a group of teachers
together and going to museum, a learning farm, an art exhibition, or even a discourse
session —anything to give you fresh perspective on a topic or something to buzz
about to your students. Going with other teachers is not only social, but it is
likely to lead to many new lesson ideas—and maybe some cross-curricular collaboration
with other classes.
2 | Make
tech work for you, not vice versa.
Do you break into a sweat when you see all the
technology and social media tools available (and subsequently hide under a desk
with a quill pen and papyrus)? So do we, sometimes. But instead of becoming
paralyzed by choices, just pick something and give it a deadline.
“Try something for two weeks, and pay attention to
how much time you put in and the value you are getting out. Is it just
entertaining or are you extracting value?” Or, try two tools for a limited
time. “See which tool feels more intuitive and offers you more value, then
ditch the other one.”
3 | Start a
book club.
“I’m always amazed at
the way books can spark deep conversations about important topics. This has
especially been true when I use them with teachers,” says Susan Dee. To launch
professional development conversations, she uses picture books such as If You
Hold a Seed, by Elly MacKay, to remind teachers that sometimes it’s okay to
step away, refocus, and try again; and Courage, by Bernard Waber, to encourage
her peers to talk about all the things
that take courage in their teaching practice.
Dee says books “create a non-threatening way to
have important conversations, without them becoming personal.” Also consider
forming a club to discuss the latest teaching memoir, pop-psychology book, or
education documentary—and enjoy the fruitful conversations that result.
4 | See lessons
through students’ eyes.
Chris Aviles, a K–8 education technology coach for
New Jersey’s Fair Haven School District, found a bold way to keep tabs on his
teaching. He straps GoPro video cameras to his students’ foreheads! This helps
him see what their day is like and how his lessons went. “It’s basically all
about looking at a lesson, at the classroom, at the environment through the
kids’ eyes,” says Aviles (see Cool Teachers). “It was amazing to see kids turn
and talk to each other…and how often they were discussing the lesson when a
teacher might otherwise think that they were disengaged and talking about
something else.”
If video cameras aren’t your style, there are many
other ways to get student input that could change your teaching. Aviles suggests
surveying kids about their experiences, interests, challenges, and goals—or
inviting them one-on-one to “show” what they’ve learned, in lieu of testing.
5 | Break
down the walls of your classroom.
No, we don’t mean remodeling! Try handing over your
classroom stage to others on a regular basis. Invite guest speakers to present;
host or attend videoconferences with faraway teachers and experts; swap classes
with a colleague; pair up with another teacher to present a cross-curricular
lesson; or ask a student “expert” to teach a topic. All of these strategies can
give you a fresh look at new teaching styles and ideas—and reveal different
ways your students learn. They’re also great for expanding the range and
diversity of perspectives available to the kids in your class.
A few other ways of profession development:
- Online Training: It’s been giving now a days to teachers by government and with APF co-operation. Through this teachers can make their profession development.
- Playing with Technology: Having huge
free time due to COVID – 19, we can spend on learning many new technical skills
which helps in enhancing profession. Ex: Learning computer soft skills like Ms
Office, Ms excel, Ms PPt, Photoshop, and Blogging, and using other new gadgets.
- Preparing new models: To give
live experience while teaching its better time to create new technically used
models. Ex: Collecting and creating new you tube videos and Interesting charts
and banners.
- Watching You Tube videos: Watching online educational programs or videos on You Tube, Dhiksha etc,
can improve our profession. Ex: Spoken English videos, grammar and
pronunciation videos etc.
- Reading: Reading good books, novels and subject
related books
- Communicating with students: Continue
conversation with students and solving their problems and giving feedback,
doing follow up can develop students learning as well as teachers profession.
Subsequently learning new activities, creativity,
participation and continue practices keep us active and updated. Self progress
and development increases in quality of education which leads in building good
nation and good society.
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Thursday, 23 July 2020
Assignment - 5
Videos used from YouTube for teaching 6th, 7th and 8th students. English and Hindi
Lesson and Poem and their Link...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2020
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