Teaching Practice

Teaching Practice - Week 5

Out of all the weeks, this was the most eventful one. This week again I had a class on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday, we (Revathy and I) had our conscientization class on "Planets & Plastics" for classes for 9D and 9O. The program went well and it focused on the 3Rs of plastic. Even though it was a Sunday, the turnout was good. Students responded quite well.

4/02/2022

Today, there was a slight hiccup at the beginning of the class due to students joining in late. But it was resolved quickly. We continued with the polynomial chapter and did a few problems on how to find the polynomials based on the given set of conditions. Then I used the time to give instructions on how to attend the achievement test conducted the next day.

5/02/2022

Today I conducted the achievement test using google forms. Some of them had trouble uploading the answer sheets, those students were asked to send the answer sheets via WhatsApp. After the test, we had class for 1 hour and almost finished the chapter with one problem remaining. We had a few technical and network issues but it was resolved quickly without delaying the class.

Just one more week to go.

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