Active Learning Strategies

KWL

          KWL charts assist me in activating students' reading and thinking. I tried out KWL in my classes, it helps me as a pre reading strategy and also serves as an assessment of what my students have learned via lessons. The following are the sample copies of KWL.

 

Reflection on Energizers

Reflection on 20 questions game

Another reading strategy is to answer the questions
that form the basis of good journalism.

Who What When Where Why and How

• Who are the main characters?
• What does the author say happened?
• Where did the action occur?
• When did it happen or what is the span of time?
• Why did this happen?
• How did it happen?

This strategy helped me to know whether my students have met the objectives of the lesson. For those who didn’t meet the objectives I redesigned the lesson plan and proceeded my class again in a different methodology.

One minute paper test 

           I used to ask oral questions related to the concept and assess children’s learning. I was not able to evaluate how many were clear with the concept. I started to use the Clearest and muddiest point of each and every concept which help me to analyze the learning of children and clear their muddiest point then and there.

 

Reflection on Coaching process

 Coaching process gave me a thorough understanding of how to

•       Do Joint Planning of lessons.
•      Give feedback with the help of observation checklist and Debrief form.
•      Workout an action plan for the areas of improvement.

    Being a coach  I

• Need to give specific comments.
• Need to probe questions to initiate further discussions with the help of Debrief form.
• Clear ideas for improvement should be identified and work out an action plan together with my coachee.

                                                                                                    (Ms. Gayathri)

Ms. Gayathri giving feedback to Ms. Sheela 

Ms. Thulasi giving feedback to Ms. Gayathri on Coaching Process 

Ms. Gayathri had a Joint Planning session with Ms. Kesavapriya

Reflection from my coachee Ms. Kesavapriya

Ms. Gayathri had a Joint Planning session with Ms. Kavitha

Reflection from my coachee Ms. Kavitha

Reflection on Rubrics

Being as a Lower Primary Co-ordinatior, We had faced many difficulties in assessing the child's skill. After getting inputs from TTF on Rubrics we started to assess the students based on it. Rubrics make assessing the students' work efficient, consistent and objective.  It helps the teachers to focus their own attention to the key concepts and standards that the students must obtain and also to assign the skills grade for all the children without any bias. It is an easy strategy to follow the rubrics to grade them and also it is a tool for us to analyze the level of the children.