ENTER MY WORLD ..... I LOVE TO TEACH AND LEARN : March 2018

Sunday, March 25, 2018

I AM A Teacher...profiling my portfolio my vision and plan ahead

I believe I want to create a mindset as positive as is possible and lead a team which will not hesitate to bring about a change .My action plan for that will be to encourage more chat sessions , discussions and collaboration.If we are ready to learn as teachers and leaders ,only then will we have our students willing to learn.LEARNING MUST NEVER CEASE...EACH ONE OF US MUST STRIVE TO BE A LIFE LONG LEARNER!

THIS 👆IS MY VISION...and to fulfill this I bear a positive approach myself

I am focusing on the learning cycle and personalising my PD, I engage in many online courses to learn the upward trend and to figure out what is the best fit method for me.

As a teacher I will be doing unjust if I believe all children are same , we all individuals are different and therefore must have different experiences in our approach to teaching and learning. So, if we feel that differentiation is a must for students it is essential for teachers too..Through I am a teacher program I learnt how to connect with that different person with in each .

And so to encourage students voice and choice and not to just harp on in the class by front loading content , but to focus on the concept based analytical approach it is mandatory to change our own methods; to be the most adaptive learners before we engage and empower our students.

What worked best for me was the use of technology ,that made the classes need based and learning brain based.

And I do firmly believe that I can be the change I want to see but can I alone bring out the culture change ...I doubt that.Yes, I can prompt change in my area of influence and I have started to that .Small steps will lead to the big movement we need .

Saturday, March 24, 2018

My vision and action plan Post CPIL ,IAAT

I am a warrior , champion for the cause of students betterment. I Firmly believe that every student needs a champion and I am willing to go to any lenght for my cause - the student.
It is not enough just to have a student Centred approach to learning and teaching ,we have to make it student driven .Rita Pierson effectively brings out the need to be the TEACHER CHAMPION to allow students to voice their opinions , no matter what ,to own their learning and their own time and speed and learning ability.

https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion

To manage that change I must change

To be that change i must accept .
To accept I must open my mind
To open my mind ,I must be a risk taker ,to be a risk taker I must care ,to care I need to know what is worth the attention , I must have attributes of a principled , balanced, thinker, I will then inquire and communicate the desire to effect Change.
Once I bring about the change I will reflect
HAVE I BEEN THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE ??

Coaching cycle

https://drive.google.com/a/iamateacher.in/file/d/1tQ2rY24oXuAkCA09NiDJxfNeF6lyiMUb/view?usp=drivesdkCoaching happens to be the most confusing area for me as many complex forces influence my behaviour and choices as well. Seeing myself as a system would be the first challenge that I would face as a coach. To understand the complex conflicting loyalties within and recognising which one of them acts most on me , what values and interests ,preferences and tendencies aspirations and fears affect my actions and decisions is the trick .And then would I be given the liberty that I extend to others?
The fear I have identified most of all is that of being judged...
To be able to coach can I afford to show that fear ?

DLP CPIL ASSIGNMENT 2

https://drive.google.com/a/iamateacher.in/file/d/1A6fVtZPXbIXjwlebV2iqzXlW34FXOINd/view?usp=drivesdk

Jogging my learning...I think , therefore I am

Is teaching = learning??
I asked my self these questions many times over the years and never did I get any one concrete answer.So, I asked this question again when I became a student for the CPIL I AM A TEACHER PROGRAM...AND A CONCRETE ANSWER I DID GET
not all teaching leads to learning .Since the teacher has stopped being the custodian of all knowledge and recording of data is not the Teachers only job ...
Therefore what the teacher has taught and the student has learnt DOES NOT HOLD GOOD IN CURRENT TIMES.Yes,we need to be aware if there's good teaching chances are good learning will happen ...the bonus is for the teacher to teach and learner to learn.LEARNING WILL HAPPEN EVEN IF THERE IS NO TEACHER ?
another QUESTION that haunted me long enough to go in self doubt ...and I realised if I am planning and if my LEARNING outcomes and objectives are clear in my vision I will deliver and I will facilitate to that end. I learnt that from the GURUs at IAAT.

Optional readings...NCERT and totochan RESPONSE

Assignment 3 response to webinar CPIL

Response to author . assignment 2

Quoting the author "We would first have to acknowledge that all children start off with pre-conceptions of reality. The ‘pre’ refers to the fact that these conceptions are developed before they join a formal school! Each student is far from a blank slate on which we can simply write pages and pages of information. Psychologists have found many examples of the ‘naïve’ or intuitive theories that children construct, about subjects as varied as force, matter, the earth, and numbers" children often construct knowledge based on their pre-knowledge. Teachers can act as facilitator to facilitate this process of construction. But in India, I feel we do not have too much hand-on experience of this process.
As I read and reread the chapter on ‘learning’, it became more and more clear that the activity of teaching is about owning responsibility – owning responsibility for their learning. As I finished reading the chapter I felt the need to ask this question – if something is not clear to children, is it their constraint or mine ,as a parent and a teacher??
I was often told as a teacher " what a teacher has not taught ,the child has not learnt" and for many years I believed that ...but now in my present workplace I realise that is a misconception ;
students also feel at times they can't do it they don't know how to ,do they don't extend themselves...and as a teacher I don't teach but play the role model, don't dictate but let them build up their knowledge and understanding through different ways.
I simply loved what Ms Kamala says" Remember you need to do two things for a student to learn something new: activate relevant existing schemas, and fit new information into existing schemas.
If the misconception of students be spoken...their reasons can be schemas and conditioning..but dispelling these is our challenge as adults.while in many progressive schools one sees it happen ; generally too many influences withhold learning in a large number of schools across our country.