Day 9

Today the first group continued with their presentation.They shared on the merits and demerits of questioning strategy.
 Merits:Important ones

1. It helps in problem solving.
2. It helps in long term retention.
3. It helps to develop problem solving skills.
4. It helps to stimulate cognitive thinking and reasoning.
5. It enhances active participation.

Demerits: Important ones

1. It is time consuming.
2. Minimum content coverage
3. Only brighter students may participate.
4. Not effective for low achievers...etc.. 

Eventually before leaving, we were asked to make three groups instantly and provided task(i.e. to write one lesson plan based on three questioning strategy)

Day 8

Today the first group presented on Questioning strategy.

I learned that Questioning strategy that is means of problem solving, that helps students to acquire knowledge and its main purpose is to create life long retention, and to develop critical and creative thinking.

The questionning strategy is classified as basketball questions, no hand questions, conscript and volunteer, hot sitting, preview, big questions, skinny questions,pair rehearsal, and seek a partial answer.

And there are three types namely,   

A) Socratic Question, that includes:

1. conceptual classification questions
2. probing assumption
3. probing rational and reasons
4. questioning view points and prespective,
5. probe implication and consequence,
6. and questions about the question,

B) Blooms Taxonomy, That includes:

1. remembering
2. understanding
3. creating
4. analysing
5. evaluating
6. creating

C) Kipling questions, That includes:

1. what
2. why
3. when
4. where
5. who
6. how.

Roles of the Teacher

•  respecting students views
• modeling critical thinking
• Creating conducive learning classroom

Role of the student

• Involve actively
• Answer diligently, not instant answers.

And at the end we were asked to write merits and demerits of Questioning strategy.

Day 7

Deductive teaching strategy

Today we learnt about Deductive teaching strategy .

 Here we learnt that it is the strategy where the students are leaded from unknown to known, abstract to concrete and complex to simple.
It consists of four phases namely,

1. presentation of abstraction,
2. teachers illustrate with example,
3. students gives examples of concept,
4. and apply them in new situation and students restate the concept or definition that they have learnt.

 In this strategy the role of the teacher is to make the plan and prepare detailed information including the materials.  Here the students depends more on teacher.

 Here the advantages are, it is not time consuming,  it involve all levels of questions and  most of the topics could be taught using this strategy.

Day 6

The recapitulation of class was to be done in pairs. Couple of discussions and debates resulted to clear understanding of inductive learning.. well inductive learning is inquiry/discovery based learning whereby the learners learn from what they have known to unknown, concrete to abstract and from simple to complex.
Well in this inductive learning teacher asks for examples from students, then students tend to generalize and later comes with a good definition of their own. here teachers role is not minimized.
It was followed by a group activity, were each group was asked to create short lesson plan (one each topic on IT and English) keeping in mind the procedural steps of inductive teaching.

Day 5

Effective Teachers Qualities

He should have good classroom management skills.
He should teach students with all available resources .
He should have positive expectations and dreams for student success.
He should have good communication skills.

Day 4

Today we learned about inductive teaching/learning strategy. it was a group activity where by we were ask to make a different group based on number system-'an expert group'. Then different groups were provided with different questions on the above mentioned topic. Then after an hour discussions(alloted time) we were asked to re unit in home group and share on respective allocated topics to the groups. well my first group presented on concept- firstly its meaning and 2 type of concepts-1. guided and non-guided, which was clear, so was 3rd group presenting on 'procedural steps of inductive teaching/learning strategy', 4th group presented on 'role of a teacher', which clearly showed that they did an extended and in depth research  and 5th group presented well on the topic 'merits and demerits of it'.
well our group (i.e 2nd group), on behave of our group we would like to apologize sir and friend for not being able to present quality and expected presentation. Our desire to producing a quality presentation lead us to research more, regardless of time, we even failed to implement all good points sir provided to us.,..sorry one and all........henceforth- no repetition..

Day 3

Today we learned about the differences between teaching strategy and teaching skills.

Well a Teaching strategy is the plan that consist of series of actions designed to achieve a goals,where as,

Teaching skills is the part of the strategy which includes the teacher's abilities, experiences and his/her knowledge to carry on the plan of actions(strategy) to reach the targeted learning outcomes

Day 2

The second day of  'Teaching Strategies' went successfully were we learned about differences between strategies, methods, approaches, skills and techniques. We learned that strategy is plan of action be it short term or long term. Method or approaches are just very similar which is, just the way of doing. And finally we learned about techniques and skills, which too are very common in fact synonyms, it means 'it's an ability that enables us to do something, it is usually a method that involves practical skills'.

Day 1

First class on the module "Teaching Strategy" was about setting of ground rules, that was to followed effectively throughout the semester.We were introduced to the module, and I really felt interested in the module as it focused on the planning different strategies to be used in schools in the future.

In addition we were also taught about the importance of the meditation - mindfulness, that is likely to help us concentrate, focus in one thing mindfully. We learned about meditation, which takes us to fulfilling a successful implementation of Gross National Happiness classroom. We learned about the how to breathe, how to adjust body posture and what to concentrate on (we were to concentrate on our breathe rushing in and out).

We  learned about some biological facts and social facts,, like early birth-end full of complications and suffering. We too learned that it is not at all advisable for us to marry early, which might lead to neglecting Parents and relatives (who have nurtured us with great care and love despite their tears, blood and sweats.