My teaching-learning reflection I

 My teaching-learning reflection I

The successful integration of ICT into the learning environment will depend on the ability of teachers to structure teaching-learning in new ways, to merge technology appropriately with new normal curriculum, pedagogy, develop socially active classrooms, and encourage co-operative interaction and collaborative learning and group work. ICT has become a core in the teaching-learning process. Although my school is located in a far remote corner with the challenges like limited access to a good network, inadequate ICT gadgets, and limited resources, with the need of time, to make the teaching-learning more successful, I have to make use of what is available.

On 5th August 2021, I taught Science on the topic “nutrition” for 8 students in class 6. The lesson duration was 45 minutes and it was observed by my teacher colleague Ms. Dechen Wangmo. The lesson was taught in the ICT room (which we call) where we have a laptop, a projector, a smart LCD TV, and a sound box.

To achieve my lesson objective to design a food guide pyramid and explain the importance of eating a balanced diet, I used the 5E learning model to deliver the lesson. In the Engage part, children were shown different types of food pictures that we eat every day on smart TV and talked about what they knew about the different types of food pictures. Then, to explore the lesson information, I have projected a video link-THE FOOD PYRAMID | Educational Video for Kids. - YouTube. Learners carefully watched the video, recorded the key observation in their book. After watching the video, the learners listed down different foods that they ate at home in the past two days and classify the food into different food groups- Energy giving food, bodybuilding food, and protective food. Based on the list of food, the learners designed a personal food guide pyramid to promote a healthy lifestyle. The food guide pyramid was evaluated by their shoulder partner. To extend the learning, learners were taken to the school kitchen to check what they have for lunch and discussed the different food groups for lunch, and check if it was a balanced diet. To evaluate the lesson, in the table group(two tables), we had a quiz competition among the table groups. A clear set of instructions were provided and a recording table was maintained on the green board as the quiz online score is for an individual. I have used the online quiz link https://www.sciencequiz.net/newjcscience/jcbiology/food/food.htm . The lesson was very lively, interactive, and fun.

Although the lesson objective was fulfilled, I have observed few issues for improvement in my next lesson while integrating ICT in the lesson. The lesson took more than the actual time of 45 minutes. The recess time had to be used to evaluate the lesson due to the bad network as the quiz was online. It took more time to open the link and each quiz question. While it took time to open, I observed that some learners got distracted. So, in my next class, I will prepare well and use more offline resources by downloading resources and prepare quiz questions using Ms PowerPoint to evaluate learning. My observer also felt that I should have asked my students to prepare a balanced diet plan for a week at home to disseminate the importance of eating nutritious and healthy food for the parents too. In my engagement part video link which students watched, different food items were not familiar to my learners. I have learned that I should curate resource/ content which is familiar to the learner before I use it in my lesson to make the teaching-learning effective with higher-order thinking skills.