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Monday 22 December 2014

Comprehension Passage in class XI - Sunel (Eng. Dept.)

Teacher's reflections: Students are asked to understand an unseen passage and try to answer the questions on their own in the class. Students were distributed the passage and asked to complete answering the questions in 30 mins. I moved around the class and reached to the students who were struggling in understanding the passage and/or questions asked. I appreciated those who were doing well and extended support who were struggling. Next day I discussed the difficulties about understanding the passage and answering the questions and pointed the key elements of the passage. I also showed them their areas of struggles.

By doing this activity in class, it helped me in addressing the problems which students were facing with understanding the language. Students were also very interested in doing it in class. Next time if I was to conduct this in class I would do a Jigsaw or any group work where peer learning will be more effective.













Tuesday 9 December 2014

Sentence Framing in "Lisan ul Dawat" with the help of "Aadaab ul Kalaam - (magic words)" in class 3 - Sunel (Diniyat Dept.)

Teacher's reflections: In this activity 8 students were asked to pick one placard of the "magic words" like انشاء الله, شكرا لله, (thank you) etc. and the remaining students were asked to pick one chit from the bowl in which sentences were written. Students were given instructions to pair up with the appropriate "magic word" and complete the sentences in Lisan ul Dawat. Students also shared the sentences in other languages also like English and Hindi.



Sunday 7 December 2014

Thursday 4 December 2014

Using 'Jigsaw Reading' in class 9 - Sunel (Science. Dept.)

Teacher's reflections: For revising the concepts of matter of solids, liquids and gases separation in class 9, I used 'Jigsaw Reading' strategy. First I divided the whole class into 4 groups numbered them 1 - 4. Then I asked all the 1's, 2's .. 4's to reassemble and gave them some topics to discuss and after that I asked the students to join their home group and share their learnings.

This strategy helped me in recollecting the learnings done before in the previous class and revising them in a whole group with involving every student in a very new way.

I found that some students who were not able to share the learnings in the home group so I had to help them and explain the concepts for them.




Wednesday 3 December 2014

Using 3-2-1 strategy in class 7 - Sunel (Eng. Dept.)

Teacher's reflections: Students can make inferences about the traits of a character through his thoughts and actions in the story. Students can explain how the evidence can show more than one trait. I was able to know their different opinions for the same story which was a quite surprise for me. I found that students were struggling in framing 2 questions and I had to help them out in doing it.







Sub - EVS Lesson 1. Know About Plants. Grade-1

Description: In this lesson students were able to recognize that plants are different from each other in many ways.In this activity they found that plants are of different sizes, shapes and colours. They also came to know that all plants do not have flowers and fruits.

Name : Ummesalama Ghadyali
Mohammediyah H.S.School Mandsaur.




Using "attend to precision" in maths in class 5 - Sunel (Maths. Dept.)

Teacher's reflections: Students were asked to perform the activity in pairs. The students are subtracting decimal numbers. In the video they are using blocks to do the activity. They had taken a 100 block as a whole and they are subtracting 0.23 from 0.52

They have shaded 5/10th and 2/100th and they are crossing out 2/10th and 3/100th precisely and getting  the answer.

Students were able to perform the activity precisely except of 2 groups who struggled during subtracting 0.03 from 0.02 ... at that time I helped them by asking that if these were whole numbers how would you subtract them? 

Tuesday 2 December 2014

Using "who, what and where/when" strategy in class 2 for forming sentences - Sunel (Eng. Dept.)

Teacher’s reflections: Students of class 2 an activity on how to form sentences using nouns or naming words, verbs or doing verbs, adjectives or describing words. Teacher put the 3 glasses naming ‘Nouns’, ‘Verbs’ and ‘Adjectives’ and words written on the icecream sticks. The students were instructed to form groups of 4 and were told how to do the activity. Students made 3 columns on a paper “who”, “what they do” and “where/when”. They made sentences on words chosen by themselves from the 3 glasses. The activity was done properly and the students were able to make sentences with the help of the words. Overall activity was a success. I had to help them in placing the words in the correct column sometimes. The activity was supposed to be done from the story given in the content book. But I found it tough for the students and chose my own words. I found that students were not able to write sentences using helping words i.e. they wrote “tree standing big ground” instead of “tree is standing in a big ground”






Using "I see, I think, I wonder" strategy in class 4 - Sunel (Eng. Dept.)

Teacher's reflections: Students performed an activity on personifying the things written in poem. It was a pair-share activity. Students saw the pictures of the poem and wrote it in the 1st column "I see". And then what they thought or had opinion about in the "I think" column. And what they wondered and if they were given asked to personify things how would they it look like - they were supposed to write in the "I wonder" column.
 The students were able to do this activity in a proper way they followed the instructions clearly given by the teacher. Overall the activity was a success. I found that students were not clear about the "I think" column and I struggled a little bit in making them understand.