Lesson Reflection for the month of August

Teachers are very powerful, to make the best of human quality or the worst of humanity as it all depends on teacher. Students on other hand are the just mere puppets in the hands of a teacher. 

Everything changes with the time. With the advancement of rapid technology, our world today has become more digitalized and it has become equally important for us to keep updated with the rapid changing digitalized society. The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into school curriculums has become so important nowadays to empower our school children to search for the information they required and allow them to organize what they have found. Children becomes increasingly responsible for their own learning as they progresses through the school system. Therefore, better integration of our children learning with ICT in the school curriculum is very crucial to produce a computer literate and independent learners in this 21^st century.

I taught a lesson on topic “Pattern” using Power Point Presentation (PPT) to my class on August 13, 2021. Although it was a new lesson topic, I could complete the topic very efficiently teaching through use of PPT. Moreover, I could feel my student’s enthusiasm and their curiosity while I was running through the teaching slides. Also, teaching with PPT helped me to have more student attention in the class.

 What lesson went well?

As normal class started with mind training and introducing the day’s Topic.

Lesson’s introduction part went very effectively as there was an active class participation from all the students. Most of the students volunteered to answer any types of questions being thrown at them. I asked them a few questions like, what is pattern, what is pattern core, etc. I also showed a short video lesson on pattern core and it helped my students to better understand the concept in the classroom teaching. Most interesting part of my lesson was interest shown by academically challenged students by taking part in class group discussion and their active participation in the class activity related to the lesson topic.

For the activity part, students were provided with group task and followed by individual assignment. Making students to work in groups helped them to develop a better sense of cooperation and a team work. Moreover, letting them collaboratively learn each other helped them to generate new ideas and produce better outcomes in the classroom learning. Additionally, collaborative learning among students also helped them in improving their communication skills.

 What lesson did not go well?

Overall, there was not much issue with the teaching of new lesson topic on that day. There was good class participation from all with each students sharing their ideas to the class. However, teacher has to timely remind student of their movement in the class so as to not to disturb other group of students who were doing their class task.

There were some few issues like completion of group task on time among students. Few groups of students could complete their task earlier than other groups and they were made to engage in extended activity assigned by their teacher.

 Action to be taken.   

Based on my observation, few actions that are required are:

·         Teacher need to provide the instructions clearly at the beginning of the activity.

·         Need to be provided with the real objects.

·         Need to sort out time for class activity.

·         Understanding learners learning ability to carry out the task within the given time.

 

In conclusion, students learning should be more integrated with the use of ICT in the classroom. Therefore, it is a teacher’s moral responsibility to keep updated ourselves with advancing technology in this 21^st century digitalized world.

                       Before the start of lesson

Conducting Assembly inside the class