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Criticism Classes

 25th October 2021 - 29th October 2021

We had our criticism classes this week. A maximum of three classes were conducted in a day. I had my class on Thursday (27th October 2021) and it was recorded. It did not go as well as planned and my peers rightly pointed out the areas I need to improve.



I got to critique the classes conducted on 28th and 29th. Some of the common mistakes made by us were in the areas of class control, use of blackboard and chart preparation. Due to the pandemic, we couldn't have real school students to attend our criticism classes but my classmates did do a great job of 'acting' like a bunch of unruly schoolchildren. 

My favourite classes were taken by Neema and Aswathy (others were really good but theirs stood out). Neema did a great job with providing innovative activities to the students while Aswathy always had control over the class no matter what the situation was.

In the upcoming week, we have our second-semester model exams.


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