‘Let’s find the solution ourselves’
21st June, Wednesday, Stayback Activity
On Wednesday, 21st June, 2017 at 3.00p.m. all the teachers gathered for a meeting with the Principal where she shared about the new initiatives taken for the benefit of the students and even discussed the issues that she might have observed during her rounds. As usual it is an open forum for the teachers to open up and come out with their difficulties either in imparting the content or any other issues faced by teachers with respect to some students, wherein the Principal who is not only an avid speaker but also a keen listener comes out with satisfactory solutions.
Then as a part of empowering the teachers, Principal instructed them to form groups and there were 7 groups of 6 to 7 teachers each. Then the group leader was asked to pick a folded piece of paper from a bowl of chits. When opened there was a case study in each pertaining to discipline problems, adolescent issues and parental interference etc. The group has to come out with feasible and tangible solutions that could be adopted through role enacting of the group members.
Every group put forth their best ideas to overcome such situations performance and wherever impracticability in adopting the idea was found, the Principal interrupted and guided them rightly.
Vertical Integration and Micro teaching sessions
Vertical Integration as a part of teacher empowering activity was carried out in different classes for different subjects by the subject mentors on 28th June, 2017. Around 3.00p.m., the subject mentors along with other teachers of their discipline moved to the assigned venues with teaching aids to demonstrate a micro lesson highlighting the ‘introductory’ aspect of a lesson. It is essential to draw the attention of the learners through a very enticing creative beginning to sustain their interest throughout the lesson. Hence every mentor had to prepare a very effective introduction for the lesson of the day and as much as possible derives the topic from the learners (who were other teachers of the same discipline of Primary and Middle school sections). The mentors of each subject did their best and the teacher students also came out with their queries. Soon after the activity, the teachers remained in the classes and talked about the difficulties faced in teaching certain grammar units and a threadbare discussion was carried out with the mentor.
