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Teaching Practice - Week 2

 10th Jan 2022,

This week started vibrantly with morning duty at St Teresa's block. We had to make sure that students sat in their respective classes with their masks on and were socially distanced. I had classes at 9I1 and 9J1. Students seemed to be interested in scoring points and I tried incooporating ppt in the class. 



11th Jan 2022

Today the second batch came in and the students were responding better today. Group division helps in elliciting more answers from students. Moreover, the initial activity to check previous knowledge has helped in carrying out the subsequent activities of the class.

12th Jan 2022

Today again the first batch had come in and I did a few problems on parallel lines. Stude ts were active but seemed to have trouble with some basic concepts in maths.

13th Jan 2022

The second batch seems to be more keen at winning the group activities. This has helped me in conducting the class. The responses helped me in understanding the thought processes of students. Also, today I had used my free period to observe Ashna's (Natural Science) class at 8 G1.

15th Jan 2022

14th was a holiday due to Pongal. The number of students were very low compared to the other days. It might be due to the increasing number of COVID cases and it has been decided that online classes will resume from 21st Jan for classes upto 9th. Also, today I observed Megha's (English) class at 8th standard.



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