Day 11

Project Strategy

Project strategy is defined as any activities be it individual or group, which involves investigation and solutions of the question under the teacher's guidance.

  Features:

1. It extends beyound classroom teaching.
2. Involves investigation and problem solving.
3. Carried out in real life situations.
4. Effective interaction between students and the social environment
5. Teacher acts as a guide.
6. Creates opportunities to acquire social skills.

Principles:

1. Principle of utility:  where it attempts to study and investigate a practical problem/situation.
2. Principle of readiness: where teacher gives task to the students  and students have the opportunity to choose the purpose.
3. Principle of learning: by doing learners come to direct contact with the learning situation, acquiring the knowledge  and experience throught the practical experience.
4. Principle of freedom: at work where teacher acts as a facilitator and students are given freedom to learn.
5. Principle of socialization: which helps the learners to come in direct contact with the social environment making them to be able to live and adjust in their social environment.

Types

1. Produce type
2. consumer type
3.  Investigation type
4.  and the Drill type.

 And under the Investigation type there are three stage and they are as follows

Stage one: Classroom planning
It inculdes the providing and selection of problems for study and followed by formulation of hypotheses and the planing methods.

Stage two: Execution
It includes collection, organisation and interpreting of data followed by the review.

Stage three: conclusion
It includes reporting and evaluation.


And in order to plan a project work

• Firstly we have to select the topics keeping in account the syllabus content, class level and availability resources.
• Secondly Students should be given to choose.
• Thirdly Students should know the format for the project work write up which includes the title, table of contents, introduction, method, conclusion, acknowledgement and the references.
• Fourthly Students should know how to collect the information.
• Then students should know:

Do's

1. Project work should be written in students' own handwriting and their own words(should not be directly copied).
2. Necessary illustration should be drawn pencil.
3. And students should simple colours.

 Don'ts

1. However students are prohibited from decorating the project work and the cover page.
2. Pictures cut from anywhere is not allowed.

Now for assessing the project work it is done from the time students start planning the project work and will end with assessment of the final project work and  for the assessment following criteria:

Content
Presentation
Process

Day 10

Today we were made more clearer with the first groups presentation which was quite vague on the very presentation day.

We were given three questions relating to our profession. 

Excluding presenters, we were individually given a piece of paper where we were asked write some doubts and doubtful questions regarding their presentation. And after couple of minutes  i got a clear understanding of the 3 types of questioning.

Eventually we came to a conclusion that, among 3 types of questioning strategy, Blooms Taxonomy is the best questioning strategy as it categorizes thinking skills ranging from recalling information, the most basic skill, to evaluation, which involves judging and stating an opinion about the information. It is a tool that teachers and employee trainers can use to create lesson plans and tests that encourage critical thinking.

A very important question (i.e. How can we handle the questions in the classroom?)was raised at the end moment.

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.