It was much better than my previos lesson. I am satisfied to a great extent. The warm-up went well since the story of the Ramayana was familiar to them. The main task was also responded to well. But I think I should have spent more time on explaining the story to them after the task was over. I am happy that I included a follow-up exercise.
I also need to be more careful while framing my 'objectives'. I still have some problem doing that.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Teaching listening
Not really happy with the lesson........could have been better. My choice of song was not a wise one, but i could not realize that before the practicum. The good part was that the students responded well. They could relate themselves with the theme and the gap-fill task was also satisfactorily completed.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Teaching writing
Fun again! But since I had to change my whole lesson plan at the 11th hour, I don't think I could give my 100% to it. Anyway, the students enjoyed the activity.But there is scope for improvement.
I enjoyed my other group members' lessons a lot. So many new things that we can do in our classrooms...........
I enjoyed my other group members' lessons a lot. So many new things that we can do in our classrooms...........
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Hello everybody!
Oh! Finally the first practicum is over.
Hmmmm....good experience. The students were more or less like our own students - some being very attentive and active.
I tried to incorporate prereading, during reading and post reading strategies in my short session.I did a brief brainstorming. Then I went for GIST. Dividing them into groups, I made them write summary of their respective pieces. Taking help of their responses, I explained the story "Dad's Blessings" to them.
Since not much time was available, I could not adopt jigsaw reading as my postreading strategy(I would have loved to do that). I asked some of them them to explain the story to me in a nutshell.
I think the objective of making the students understand the story was achieved. But I realize that I should have distributed the complete text to them after they had done GIST exercise.
I also realize that we can make our classes much more interesting with help of these strategies (though we ARE using some of these strategies in our classes).
Oh! Finally the first practicum is over.
Hmmmm....good experience. The students were more or less like our own students - some being very attentive and active.
I tried to incorporate prereading, during reading and post reading strategies in my short session.I did a brief brainstorming. Then I went for GIST. Dividing them into groups, I made them write summary of their respective pieces. Taking help of their responses, I explained the story "Dad's Blessings" to them.
Since not much time was available, I could not adopt jigsaw reading as my postreading strategy(I would have loved to do that). I asked some of them them to explain the story to me in a nutshell.
I think the objective of making the students understand the story was achieved. But I realize that I should have distributed the complete text to them after they had done GIST exercise.
I also realize that we can make our classes much more interesting with help of these strategies (though we ARE using some of these strategies in our classes).
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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