KWL chart in class 8 - Sunel (Diniyat)

Teacher's reflections: Before starting the lesson regarding "Misr (Egypt)" I asked the students to prepare a KWL chart and instructed them how to prepare it. Each student made the chart individually in their own notebooks. First I instructed them to write 'What I KNOW about Misr' then I instructed to make other column and write 'What I WANT to know about 'Misr' and after completing the lesson next day I asked them to make 3rd column and write 'What I LEARNED about 'Misr'.

It was a success as all the leaning for those 2 days were interesting and many WANTs were answered. For some of them WANTs I asked them to search them on internet / library.

Group Activity: Team comprehension questions - Class 8 - Sunel (Diniyat)

Teacher's reflections: First I made 4 groups of 5 students in each group. Grouping was done on the base of their birthday months. Students were then given instructions for the activity as follows:
1. They were suppose to read the text given individually
2. Then they had to discuss in the group and clarify their doubts
3. Each students were asked to frame 2 clarifying questions and/or open ended questions regarding the text (10 question per group)
4. They had to record all the questions on a piece of paper
5. Then the papers were exchanged with other groups which they have to try to solve those questions.
6. Those group who answered most of the questions will be rewarded.

The activity went well. I had planned this activity for 1 period but answering the questions of other group was not done due to time constraint, so I took the question papers from each group and didn't disclosed the following part. Next day I exchanged the papers and instructed them to answer them and informed that those group who will answer most of the questions correctly will be rewarded. This came up as a surprise for them  and created interest in comprehending the text.

Lisan ud Dawah - A'ama ane Muq'ad (The Blind & Deaf), Class 3rd, Diniyat Dept. Suwasra.

The activity consists of reading the text and finding new words and their meanings. And to understand the moral theme of the lesson.

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.

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.

Grade 4, Subject Science, Block 15, LP 1 Filtration

Teacher : Mrs Batul Ramlawala.
Mohammediyah H.S.School.
Mandsaur.

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.