Reflection on ICT integrated lesson.

 Reflection on ICT integrated lesson. 

The world we live in is a result of constant change and we never know what might be there next. Look at what has happened with present situation (Covid-19).

With most of the world in lockdown, due to the pandemic, people are working from home if they can, students are learning from home in an online format, and parents are picking up the slack from teachers and supporting their children. 

This unprecedented event has changed the world and has brought it into a new era - the time of online learning for all people.

It was not until later on in my teaching career that the term Information and Communication Technology (ICT) materialized before me and opened my eyes to what this meant in education. The term ICT simplified means any technology that has to do with information and communication.

Today, in the 21st Century, all most all are well equipped with the newest technologies that flows in and around their surroundings. The inception of technologies is growing at the fastest rate in every aspect of life. Moreover, a huge flow of information is emerging in all fields throughout the world. Now information and technology are popularly using in educational field for making teaching learning process successful and interesting for both the students and teachers. And here presents some of the core roles that ICT plays in daily teaching and learning processes.

Roles of ICT

·         ICT helps teachers to interact with students.

·         It helps in preparing teaching and provide feedback.

·         It also helps to improve teaching skills.

·         It replaces the ancient teaching methodologies.

·         ICT act as an “assisting tool” for making assignments, communicating, collecting data & documentation, evaluation and conducting research.

·         ICT help store educational information safely.

·         ICT is a medium for teaching and learning which teachers can teach and learners can learn etc…

 

For those above fundamental reasons, I have using ICT based resources like projector, laptop and sound systems to present slide shows, videos and other short clips that are related to my teaching subject.

 Before the start of a lesson

 Mind Training (using Tibetan bowl music)

 

Teaching  using projector, laptop, sound speaker….

Reflecting our own teaching with ICT plays a very important part in the development of student ICT capability throughout the integration of ICT in the curriculum. However, for teachers, it is all about taking responsibility for the use of ICT in the classroom and their professional growth.

My Reflection on Teaching

v  We  can do regular evaluation and the approaches to teaching and learning.

v  Understand more about children how they are doing and providing feedbacks on time.

v  Positive impacts of high-quality effective pedagogies on children’s learning

v  Become more aware of the importance of high-quality interactions, including strategic intervention and substantive conversations to maximize children’s learning

v  Use action research approaches — e.g. drawing on alternative teaching strategies to help
children to learn when familiar methods fail

v  Co-construct learning with children and other partners so it is responsive to the child’s family and community.

It is important that teachers do reflect on their teaching and take the appropriate steps to improve them. These teaching strategies for the classroom can help to go a long way in ensuring that outcomes are learned by students by determining which parts of the lesson went well and which ones were less successful. From here, they can make adjustments and plan for better lessons accordingly to achieve our lesson objectives. 

Clarifying existing ideas about teaching helps to get new ideas or modify old ones. A powerful reflection involves carrying out action research. That is the approach where teachers are required to take a more rigorous look at the quality of their teaching and learning.

 After judgments, evidence such as the following in relation to classroom activity needs to be taken into account:

• Lesson plans and schemes of work.

• Comments from observing teachers.

• A diary of classroom activity.

• The results of students’ class and homework and.

• The results of examinations.

 So, in my next lesson I will include shot video clips, more photos.