REPORT OF 3RD DAY
“NEVER
MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS USING SOMEONE ELSE’S RULER”
Like previous two days, 3rd day
of this second spell online course also started with ad devotional prayer
followed by a motivational thought, pledge, new word, news and special item on
Fit India which were nicely presented by the group Wizard at Work i.e. Hindi group. After that report of the previous day was
presented followed by the creative attendance which was based on the hindi
idioms. After that our respected course director Mrs. Bharthi Kukkal guided all
the participants with her motivational words. Then our resource person Mrs.
Kavita Prashar, appreciated the efforts of group2 members in presenting the
assembly program. She gave some suggestions also that can be followed to
present assembly items in a better way. Then Dr, Archana (resource person) told
us about the importance of titles given to the chapters. She told us that we
should spend some time on discussing about the given title before starting the
text. Then Mr. Nand Kishore Balodi (resource person) gave his best wishes and
guidance to the participants for the coming sessions.
Then at 9:30 am in the first
session, EVS group shooting stars gave presentation on innovative techniques
adopted by them during online teaching. In their presentation, Ms. Nidhi showed
some self composed videos on psychological well being-Manodarpan. She also
shared her innovative project “English for beginners made easy-The Phonics way”.
She also shared various steps to be followed before and during working on any
innovative project. Her ideas related to the project were very valuable and
fruitful for all the participants. After that Ms. Sunita shared her innovation
during online teaching. She guided us about the use of EDPUSSLE app in Google Classroom.
This app is very useful for building students concentration, online tests and
effective use of YouTube videos. After that Ms. Beant Kaur shared her
innovations during online sessions. She told us about her listening and
speaking corner, language club and various strategies of teaching language. In
the end she mesmerized all of us with her self-composed corona song. It was really a melodious song which conveyed
a deep meaning of current pandemic situation.
Our second session began at 10:45
am. Dr. Shashi Prabha, our expert guest who is working as a professor in NCERT
presented a session on “Pedagogy of EVS”. In her session she told us about the
thematic approach which is followed throughout in our EVS textbooks from class
III to V. She also emphasized on the experiential and child centered learning.
She told us to take the students beyond the process of rote memorization of
various things and focused on the creative and critical thinking. She emphasized
on the benefits of group work and importance of various learning outcomes.
Through her session we would come to know about various new things which we
should use in our classroom teachings. Really it was a very informative and
interesting session. After that we had lunch break followed by group meetings
from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.
In the last, I would like to thank our
course director madam and all the resource persons for providing so wonderful
and meaningful sessions.
Thank
you