Reflection on Lesson taken on 20^th October, 2021.

I taught Mathematics lesson on topic ‘Data and Probability’ on October 20, 2021 to Class PP A. The sub topic was on Bar graph using Power Point Presentation (PPT). As usual, the main activities of the day were done after their circle time (greeting, writing the date and weather recognition). Although it was a new topic for the students, I pre-planned well and executed the lesson smoothly.

The lesson began with asking questions to the students on concept, meaning of bar graph and after that I showed them educational video on bar graphs for one to two minutes.  After showing the educational video, lesson continued with follow up questions on the video lesson topic. I asked those questions like what is graph, how many children liked an apple, etc. Students were made to study the graph shown on the whiteboard through the PPT slide and were asked to identify each result. If they didn’t know the answer, they were made to asked their sitting partners or just study the slide shown on the white board. After that they were made to identify the children’s favorite fruit that appears on the PPT slide.

My original plan was not going as per my planning. Firstly, the topic was very new to students and secondly all four groups could not perform well. Among four groups, two groups needed more attention and I had to make some changes for them. I paired the children and work with one pair at the time. That seemed to be turned effective. I try to paired students according to various student abilities. This worked well because mixing of different able students could lead to effective learning among the students.  

Students were instructed to plot a graph. Having been working with these students for almost a year, I knew very well about their abilities. I knew that some of the children would have spent hard time getting all the new concepts about the topic, recognizing and remembering new words.

 

Although class was well-organized, there were still some rooms for improvement. There is need for short and precise instruction for Pre-Primary children (Class PP). Instructions seem to be lengthy for lower class students. I also felt speaking full sentences in both the language is important. Incomplete sentences may hamper the children’s future of learning languages. There is need for encouragement to children to speak in full sentences in the class.

Class participation was appreciated and activities were interesting as it was to the level of the students. All students were engaged and enjoyed doing class activity like coloring and writing numbers with pictorial form. Lesson closure was interesting as all the questions were distributed equally among the groups based on equal gender. Sample activities.

 Activities One