School Teaching Practice - Week 2

 8/2/21 Monday

I could notice that the children were more frequent in the classes. The teacher had said that the children were not very keen on attending school and therefore the pass percent of the school was as low as 40%. In every class I spent sometime to speak to the kids about the significance of education in improving our quality of thinking that would in turn improve the quality of our life. Today I dealt with the significance of learning in empowerment. 

9/2/21 Tuesday

Though the children were quite casual with their learning initially, by now they were a bit serious with their studies. They were able to recollect their previous class learnings and were quite familiar with the discourse activities. 

10/2/21 Wednesday

Today I began with a new lesson Matchbox written by Ashapurna Debi. The children were all very eager to learn the story. A major change I could notice was that those folks who were disinterested to learn English were all now impatient with the delay in beginning a lesson. This lesson was one relevant with the happenings of the society, so I wanted it to be more of a discussion that a regular lecture and the students interacted well.

11/2/21 Thursday

The children were all very much involved in the lesson and I could notice that as I read, their expressions revealed their discontent with the unfair treatment to which the protagonist was being subjected to. When I asked the students whether they had something to add on, almost all the students spoke of the instances of injustice they had to face in life as women. 

13/2/21 Friday

One of the discourse activities I gave them was character sketch. The children had an in-depth understanding of the text but their vocabulary in English was poor. The students asked me to give English words for certain Malayalam words. This was a difficulty faced by students of all batches so I decided to give them a few related terms of the themes they were learning so that it would be easier for them to prepare from the examination point of view.

A few snaps of the week