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Teaching Practice- Week 4

 Can't believe it's been already 4 weeks since our teaching practice has started. The idea of online classes sounded very simple and convenient. But it's challenging. Moderating it, trying to understand the emotions of the students through their voices,  students not replying to your questions etc., the challenges list can go on and on. But in this day and age, a teacher must know how to handle online and offline classes.

This week I had 2 classes. One was on Friday and the other was on Saturday. Since both 9I1 and 9J1 had to be combined and they had completed different portions of similar triangles, I had to start a new chapter, Polynomials.

28 Jan 2022,

Today was my first online class and there was a total of around 40 students in attendance. Today Joju sir and Deepthi ma'am had joined us for observation. I began the chapter Polynomials. One thing I found difficult to do was finding the names of the students from the participant list while I'm presenting my ppt. The other issue was handling students who refuse to reply to the questions asked in class.

29th Jan 2022,

Today was my second class. This time I was able to solve a part of my issue. I found a method to see the participant list while I'm presenting my ppt. I'm still working on the other issue. Today there were only 20 students in attendance, but majority of them were very active and replying to the questions asked in class.





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