Reflection on Lesson taken on September 13, 2021

To be a teacher in one’s life is a great achievement which is hardly realized. However, to be a good teacher is a great challenge in life.

I taught a lesson on topic “Consonant Vowel Consonant” - (CVC words) using Power Point Presentation (PPT) to my class on September 13, 2021. Although it was a new lesson for children in pre-primary, I could efficiently complete teaching the topic within time frame through use of PPT. Moreover, I could feel my students were curious to learn new lesson when I teach using PPT slides. This is all due to the comments made in previous lesson reflection by providing clear-cut instructions and allocating more time on activity. Teaching through PPT not only helped me to gain children’s attention but I could also complete my task on time.

 

What lesson went well?

As usual I began my class with short meditation and started with introduction of day’s lesson topic.

Lesson introduction went very smoothly as there was an active full class participation. Most of the students volunteered to answer and made the class lively. I asked them a few questions like, what is blending, how words are blend together and why blending, etc. Then I run down the lesson through power point presentation. Most interesting part of my lesson was the active participation shown by the academically challenged students in the class.

By recalling my previous feedback on student’s activity, I provided my students with clear instructions and reminded them about completing the class activity on time. All activities were assigned in group as collaborative learning among children helps in improving their communication skills.

Individual activities were provided in their class forum (WeChat group) and were asked to submit online. Response from the student’s parents were encouraging as most of them expressed that online learning prove to be very informative and effective as most of their children explore online sources for learning. Moreover, parents also suggested about assigning similar activities in subsequent days as online learning helped their children to meaningfully engage by incorporating the use of ICT.

 

What lesson did not go well?                                                                                                     

All in all, there was not much issue with the teaching of lesson on that day. However few students moved and were disturbing other children in doing their work. Teacher has to time and again remind them about their movement in the class as that it does not disturb other student in the class. So, in the next lesson I will prepare more activities to engage children as to reduce the movement in the class.

Action to be taken.   

Based on my observation, few actions need to be considered. One is the suggestion from parents about providing more activities to engage their children. The other was regarding inclusion of more pictorial activity in the PPT teaching slides

I conclude that student’s 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 digitalized 21^st century.

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