Reflection blog about my differentiation abilities.

Differentiation????? what is this word for??? In past but now it means a lot to me

I have never tried differentiation in my beginning of my professional career until I joined The Winchester School. In past I did not even think how to differentiate in class according to students' abilities because I myself was too new to the teaching profession. After all it is all about learning  and enhancing your skills during the course of time. It was 2011 when I actually started differentiation in my class according to students' abilities, needs, learning style etc. However I was not familiar with the system and traits but I was learning.

Present: Can not imagine that I am learning too many activities where actually I can use differentiated tasks in my daily lessons. Thanks to CICT lessons and different theories of learning.

Future: It is all about how you use it effectively in your lessons so for that I will gather evidence from my assessment records. I will use different learning style which caters my different learners, different questioning strategies, differentiated tasks etc.

Questioning Strategies which I have learnt.

Hello guys let's talk about different questioning strategies which you can use in your class straight way. Below mentioned some of the strategies.

1.Open and Closed Questions
2.General and Directed Questions
3.Wait time
4.Bounce questions around
5.Phone a friend
6.SCAMPER
7.Preview Questions
8.Eavesdropping
9.5Ws and 1H 

I do use a lot of the 5Ws & 1H; however, however I am planning to use in my class?????? Here you go!!!
A different QUESTIONING STRATEGY!!?
Will try the phone a friend and Bounce questions around. All the best to myself.

Nikunj  

My Classroom Experiences....

All about my students' learning, in my class mostly I try my best to make it lively and more into active learning but somehow I was not able to deliver up to my expectations. Here you go my CICT classes began, after my CICT sessions I have started enriching my knowledge, teaching style, my role and important elements of my teaching style etc. The activities which I do and learn in my CICT sessions are noteworthy and above all shows active learning in sessions. I always try to use those activities wherever it suits to my subjects and topics and somehow it gives me immense satisfaction in my class which gives me different experiences of my own class. Moreover I can see the change in my self, personality, teaching style, my role etc.


Would like to learn more and more to cater my learners and enrich them with learning.

Nikunj 

CICT Sessions

Hello Guys,

I am back with my another reflection blog. In my CICT sessions I learn a lot, a lot means many activities, theories, different activities which helps a lot to me in my class. Some points which I would like to mention:

1. Active learning
2. Hands on activities
3. Learning theories
4. How to make your class lively
5. How to get feedback
6. Importance of feedback and evaluation
7. Different questioning strategies
8. Energisers for our class
9. How to be a facilitator in your class.

Still many things to learn and waiting for my next session to enhance my learning experience. 

Nikunj 

Why I chose to become a teacher.

I chose to become a teacher:

There are many reasons but will keep my writing very brief and focus on important points. 

Firstly in my life I had an aim that whichever field allows me to earn money that is my interest and finally I became a teacher. Although I thought about money but I did not realize when I fell in love with the teaching profession. When I joined TWS I was very new to curriculum teaching styles etc. and here i realized more about the value of teacher and teaching. I have mentioned few points which allow me to love my profession.

• I love to nurture and show them bright, true path of their lives.
• I feel rejoiced when they learn new things.
• I like to develop their critical thinking. 
• Shaping the future of the world.
• Creating independent learners who can face and shape the future.
• Teach them how to think out of box.
• Cater them according to their learning adaptations,
• I learn many things from my young learners, 

That is why I chose to become a teacher and I enjoy, love whatever I do for my learners.

Nikunj

Reflection Time for my lesson.

Hello All,
I am a CICTT student and  a teacher, as and when I attend my class I learn everyday new activities in my learning path. Last week I had my class on Thursday, I learned many activities and active learning in my session. In my session we had an activity which particularly I liked the most and desperately wanted to try in my class. It was a plenary activity to show my AFL strategies (Plenary Time: Create a one-minute radio ad giving students knowledge about standard conversion of units (Mass). Time given 10mins). The day had arrived where I am going to try that activity in my lesson, that was the Math lesson and the objective was "To convert from one unit of measure to another (mass)" so it was little bit difficult to relate with my lesson but I tried it. Evaluation of my lesson:

What went well: 

1. Students were really excited by looking at musical instruments.
2. Shown attainment in their outcome.
3. Target group engaged the most.
4. Shown collaborative learning.
5. Most of the students achieved the outcome.
6. Had a new learning experience.

Even if better:

1. Give more time to prepare.
2. More space to perform.
3. Quality work.
4. Expectations should have made clear to them. 

Overall it was a new learning and teaching way for me and I enjoyed a lot. Moreover I upgraded my teaching style to make my class interesting and lively. 

Thank you so much. 

Nikunj 

Catering to different learners and different learning styles.

As we know there are many types of learners and its teachers' responsibility to cater their students or learners according to their abilities. We know there are mainly 4 types of learners VAK and Read/write, being a teacher it is my ability to identify my students with different abilities. If a student is not achieving his/her outcome then I have to cater him/her according to his learning needs.
How I cater them in my class.

1. Visual Learner:

• Can learn through videos, pictures, seeing etc.
• Can write instructions while they are listening to lectures. 
• Can choose quite place to study.
• Can use highlighters to colour their important notes and texts. 
• Can learn through charts, illustrations textbooks and handouts. 

2. Auditory Learner:

• Can listen to audio transcript of the texts or topics.
• Can listen to their peers while they are sharing their knowledge.
• Can create songs for the possible topics or tunes. 

3. Kinesthetic Learner:

• Can touch or feel the materials or objects.
• Can study in short blocks.
• Take lab classes.
• Can go on field trips.
• Can study with peers.
• Can use flash cards or memory games to memorize facts. 

4. Read/Write Learner:

• Can read their topics again and again.
• Can write a particular tasks for several times.
• Can read the notes out loud.
• Rewrite ideas and principles into other words. 
• Can use charts, graphs, diagrams to memorize.

I use these strategies to cater my different learners and styles. 

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Advantages & Disadvantages of Different Learning Styles

Different Learning Style:

Your learning style is the approach you imbibe and comprehend information. There are different types of learners depend on how their brain works, there are four types of learners.

1. Visual

2. Auditory 

3. Kinesthetic

4. Read/Write

Each of the learners have their own skills, advantages and disadvantages, as a teacher you should know these skills well to identify your learners and their needs. 

1. Visual Learner:

Visual learners are the learners who can only learn well which is linked to visual aids e.g. videos, pictures, texts, illustration, diagram, DVDs etc. They grasp and understand easily to their subjects when they visual it, moreover they are the best presenter, researcher of the group. 

Advantages:

• Makes recollection easier.
• An environment different from where you had learned the information.
• The learner better understands and retains information when ideas, words and  concepts are associated with images.                                               

Disadvantage:

• Difficult to provide texts or speeches with visual aids.

 2. Auditory Learner:

Auditory learners are the learners who would prefer to learn with listening and hearing. To learn such students would like to listen discussions, debate, talks, textbooks in the from of audio etc. They learn more quickly with listening compare to visual and other learning styles. 

Advantage:

• The learner can comprehend and retain information without seeing the texts or pictures.  

Disadvantage:

• Difficult for other learners when the volume is high. 

3. Kinesthetic Learner:

Kinesthetic learners are the learners who like to learns everything through moving and practical work and touching. They always learn well through hands on experiments, taking an information as they move from place to place, moreover they do not like to sit on a particular place to learn. 

Advantages: 

• Exposing learners faster to practice and evidence.
• learn more by doing practice.

Disadvantage:

• If you do not have place to move or nobody to interact with. 

4. Read and Write Learner:

Read and write learners are the learners who learn through writing down notes or reading the texts as you hear, see, or read. 

Advantages:

• Make the learner more self-independent.
• Learns more on their own.

Disadvantage:

• Do not learn easily where the only medium of instruction is visual or audio. 

Activity which I chose

ICT, ICT, ICT, everywhere ICT 

After my long time of thinking and introspection, finally I have decided to use ICT as an activity in my class. The reason behind this choice is I have observed lack of motivation in my lessons especially in our target groups, which put me to think how I can help my children to make progress in expected levels. As I am aware of my current living century and in this techno world and can not avert the use of any ICT devices, mostly students from my teaching age group. They love to use ICT and somehow they are mostly engaged in their lessons as well, which I have observed during my BYOD week. Now its my time to use ICT in my daily lessons to make it lively, interesting, more engaged and last but not least attainment of students. ICT is an essential to school educational programming and to students ‘development as learners. The more engagement means more attainment. 

What are the difference between Aims and Objectives?

What are the difference between Aims and Objectives?

Aims are general statements regarding the overall goals, ends or desires of teaching. Objectives are the individual phases that learners must accomplish on the way in order to reach these goals. For example a teacher might have an aim that a student should be able to write a poem using the poetic devices or elements. Nonetheless to achieve this aim a series of objectives must be met. eg to explain what is poem, different types of poems, features of poems, pioneer of poems, history of poems etc.

A teacher might have as an overall aim that students should accept the relationship between literature and poem. To achieve this aim the following objectives might have to be met: use the imaginative language to express feelings and ideas, rhyming scheme, pattern of poem, scaffolding etc.

• Aims are accustomed, objectives are precise.
• There are more objectives than aims.
• Aims are like blueprint, objective are like tactics.

Aims and objectives can form hierarchical structures so that in complex curricula aims at one level might be seen as objectives at another.