CASW Session-3 Presentation-3

Presenter: Raji Nair
Facilitator: Maheshwaran
Participant: Anitha, Amarnathan, Neela, Mahua, Srinivas

Resources:
- Student work: Test paper which was answered by the child with the teacher support

Strengths of the student:
- Hard working
- open to feedback
- takes care to present work neatly
- Motivated and wants to do well
- Uses any strategy taught willingly

Key questions:
What strategies can I use to make my teaching more effective and to make the student a better learner?


Suggestions given
- Visual & auditory
Since the child is the visual learner I suggested that any experiment conducted
in the class will sure have its own video/animated version of it. She could be
provided with the video and a checklist/worksheet that she could answer while watching the video
- Identify keyword
to identify a keyword in every lesson so that she can remember the task.
- To find out when was it last that the child could infer or make any kind of analysis, and to develop strategies based on the situation.
- build on strengths

Presenter reflection
- Number of pull-out sessions cannot be increased
- Parents do not agree with the learning difficulties of the child
- Keywords are highlighted, but become difficult to remember as the contents become heavier

CASW Session-3 Presentation -1

Presenter-Mr.Amarnathan
Facilitator-Dr.Maheshwaran
Participants- Anitha, Raji Nair, Neela Tatu, Srini, Mahua
Presenter tools- Handout which gives details about objective and learning strategies followed by the language department, A audio tape which consists of oral presentation of grade 6 students-where three students have narrated the story in their own words.


Even before i could attend the CASW session of Mr.Amarnathan i guessed the topic of discussion would surely be related to communication skills of the students in kannada. Nethravathy who is the language teacher has been always sharing thoughts about this topic with me.

Key question: How do we make language learning empirical and relevant to life in the process of developing listening and speaking skills and raise the state of language learning from mere academic survival to a living experience?

Clarifying questions:
-For me the audio appeared like the student was reading the script hence my question was if he had the written document while narrating the story?
-Did the teacher have any talk regarding the importance of language with the parents ?

Strategies built during the participant discussion
-Record when the child interview people like maid, seller, driver etc...
-Photographic story telling: where the students use digital cameras and take some interesting pictures and make a story by giving simple dialogue.
-To invite guest speakers like sports personality to talk in kannada
-To invite people who are from a different nationality and have tried to learn kannada like "Miriam" who came from germany to our school.
-Parents could also share the difficulty faced for not knowing the local language
-To read a paragraph or the news headlines everyday
-Importance to assessment to be given

Presenter Reflection
-Reading newspaper and watching movies is part of regular language activity
-No standardised assess