VRINDA MATHU

  Weekly reflection ( 4 th week ) 22/2/2021 to 25/2/ 2021    It was the final week of teaching for school students.         During this week I completed the unit 'Safety in food too'.The important topics covered during the class were 'preservatives', 'adulteration', 'Quality of milk',  and'entiching colours'.             Slides containing pictures and videos were used for teaching the class. I gained more confidence as I was reaching towards the end of the teaching practice. Students were very cooperative and obedient throughout the learning process and it improved my motivation and confidence .             On the last day, I gave students time to ask doubts and clarify them. After that I told I'll inform them about the dates of Achievement test and Diagnostic test through WhatsApp and conduct them soon. Then students shared their feedback and the class was dispersed after a friendly talk...

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  Weekly reflection ( 3 rd week)    15/2/2021 to 19/2/ 2021 For online school teaching, I finished the chapter 'Breath and blood of life' on tuesday. The last topic was blood circulation and let us make a stethoscope.Students asked doubts and they were clarified.         'Let us makeStetoscope'topic was explained by the help of showing video, and it was very effective for students in understanding the making process and its  explaining.            And started the next chapter 'safety in food too'. The topics covered for students on the week was 'mode of preservation', and ' how does food get decayed' pictures and 7th biology text book were used for teaching.     Everyday, students doubts were clarified and they were encouraged to read the textbook and ask for doubts.     During the week, I not continued my peer teaching.

 Weekly reflection (2 nd week) 8/2/2021 to 12/2/2021 The   second week of teaching was from 8/2/2021 to 12/2/2021 . On these days I took both online classes for students and peer teaching for peers. Online teaching started on 08.02.2021 and I got to teach 7 b class through Google Meet. The chapter for teaching was ' Breath and blood of life'. In the first class, I taught ' breathing, inspiration and expiration.  The second class was about respiratory system in humans. The third class dealt with constructing a model of lungs.  The fourth class was about inhaled and exhaled air. The fifth class was about diversity in respiration. Then finally the last class of the week was about inhaled air in to the blood.            I used Pictures, videos and slides presented through Google Meet for the delivery of the content. Students were less involving in the first few classes but later they also participated in answering questions and responding. T...

Weekly reflection(1 st week)   2/2/2021 to 5/2/2021 Since it was Covid 19 and classes were not open for students, the internship phase II was to be conducted in the form of 15 online classes for school students and 15 online/direct classes for peers.                 I took Peer teaching on these days. First class was on 2 nd February, Tuesday. The unit selected for peer teaching was 'chalanathinte jeevasashtram'   from 7th Standard. The first class was on the topic 'vyayamathinte pradhanyam'  . Using textbook and blackboard as teaching aids, I was able to teach the content.             The second class was  on 3/2/2021. The content was ' chalanagal agrahikatheyum'. The concept was taught by using concept attainment model.It was intersted to teach in a new way. Chart and pictures were used for teaching.             The third class was on same day (3/2/2021). The co...