October Blog

 My October Final Reflection

This month as usual and normal I continued with the online classes.As the nation lifted and eased the lock down in some low risk zone, i picked up another strategy. I asked them all to try to come to two classes per week (Monday & Friday) for contact teaching, and then started the with lesson . It all went quite a bit better than I expected. What most surprised me was that the students who worked the hardest and shone the most were largely students who hadn’t stood out before we went online. 

This time I taught both Mathematics and Dzongkha lessons. I  have touched almost all the topics and taught them all in this month of October which is given in the SIM. during online classes as usual I used We Chat as the main mean of teaching. And during contact teaching I tried to use TV for some lesson topic.I felt that children were learning better in contact teaching that that of online teaching and learning. But with hard work i have tried to make them learn enthusiastically and comprehensively. Some time for online I spent some amount for recharging my children's mobile number.

The picture below shows contact teaching happening in the classes. 

For the last couple of  months of online education and contact teaching feel like a success, but I can’t say that I am excited by the prospect of having to continue online. When catering these online classes, I picked the low hanging fruit, but in so doing I have almost exhausted the content from my syllabus that can easily be adapted for online learning. Children were also trying to send video of their studying at home.

                                                    A child reading some her write up.

Indeed, it wasn't very comfortable to teach through this We Chat forum due to many technical glitches, somehow i could manage to conduct my online class satisfactorily. After making my children watch the video, I provided my students with some sets of activities to be done. I gave them one hour time to complete their activity. I also reminded and guided them time and again until students were able to do their activity correctly. The students works were also corrected and send to them for rewriting. It was really challenging for me to get normalize my teaching, as there were many unexpected flow of teaching. In fact it was a very momentous and unforgettable memories.   

Some pictures children showing learning through both online and contact teaching