2nd  ICT Reflection

 On 16^th September 2020, I taught class PP, on the topic, ”likes and dislikes”, in continuation with the previous lesson by asking the question through We-chat as a revision and some through calls who are not access to We-chat. There was a small passage where by they have to carry out an activity after comprehending the passage. Since 90% of parents are illiterate, I felt the need of making a small video tutorial from the SIM booklet volume IV lesson I, self checking activity, so they could view and follow accordingly.   

This time, with lots of hopes, I happened to inform parents before about sending video lesson through We-chat. But they insisted me not to send video lesson as they cannot download it due to very poor net connectivity and it hinders them from sending their children’s works on time. Still then, feeling the need, I recorded in mobile and sent it the forum. Yet parents were not able to access. So I had to send voice message as usual.  The lesson had to prolong for a week and some even took more than a week. The submission of works of the students was also kept as per their conveniences. This time also I could not make video tutorial.  It is a big challenge faced in a place where the net connectivity is so poor and when parents are all farmers. All of the lessons need to be sent in voice messages only. So I have realized that if the pandemic continues, the students especially the primary, might have low foundation and their learning might declined as found during first home visit.

With the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, everything has come as an opportunity to everyone especially with the teaching and learning members. Given the opportunity, children these days are much more advanced than us and they can access to every means and I have learnt quite a lot from my students. Some of my students are very active in sending me video and audio clips with most of the lessons. This time, I got few videos from one of the girls through We-chat which was very encouraging although few grammar error occurred which was instantly corrected.

However, for future improvement, I thought of assigning task in the evening as shared by some of the parents.(Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM)as they are available only at these hours and I am going to visit them for the second time so that every one is kept in touch, especially with the non respondent children.  

As we all know that this pandemic is not going to leave us, like wise we are to never leave our students whatever the situation arises. With this fight, we got to rather work harder than before, so that our dreams as teachers to keep every students on track is fulfilled and get  fully satisfied by trying out with different means to cater our lessons even if we cannot teach through making video lessons.

Following are some of the work samples.