05/09/2012
02:00~03:00 (1hour)
teaching in Janawada was cancelled since it was teachers day and one of the teachers in the school was selected as influential teacher and all the students had to go somewhere for celebration.
Therefore, Janawada Oosati teaching groups had to go to remote learning centre where others students are working on.
To be honest, I was frustrated because I felt that I was not being productive.
with my students in Janawada, I know them, I have taught them for a long period of time, I know what they are capable of and not capable of. I have a concrete curriculum and lesson to follow.
but, in this remote learning centre, I and my friend Harsha, (and later Venkat) were given four students, from grade 4. I was given a worksheet and was asked to teach them. What...?
in one hour? It seemed they knew alphabet and pronounciation, but that was it. They were not so responsive and yes, I had my language barrier. I had to ask my friends to ask they whether they understood it or not, know certain words... etc.
I did try my best to do whatever i can with the worksheet that I was given, but at the end of the teaching, I thought I could have done so much in Janawada with the same period of time I was given.
I was just retrospecting when I was coming back home in the bus,
and thought that I should learn to be satisfied with small things as well as big ones. I can not go on to be a perfectionist.
And I think that also my emotion played major role in making me feel that way.
I was feeling really low for few days, thinking that I am not doing anything.. kind of rebuking myself of what I should have been doing.
I will have to think more along this line.
02:00~03:00 (1hour)
teaching in Janawada was cancelled since it was teachers day and one of the teachers in the school was selected as influential teacher and all the students had to go somewhere for celebration.
Therefore, Janawada Oosati teaching groups had to go to remote learning centre where others students are working on.
To be honest, I was frustrated because I felt that I was not being productive.
with my students in Janawada, I know them, I have taught them for a long period of time, I know what they are capable of and not capable of. I have a concrete curriculum and lesson to follow.
but, in this remote learning centre, I and my friend Harsha, (and later Venkat) were given four students, from grade 4. I was given a worksheet and was asked to teach them. What...?
in one hour? It seemed they knew alphabet and pronounciation, but that was it. They were not so responsive and yes, I had my language barrier. I had to ask my friends to ask they whether they understood it or not, know certain words... etc.
I did try my best to do whatever i can with the worksheet that I was given, but at the end of the teaching, I thought I could have done so much in Janawada with the same period of time I was given.
I was just retrospecting when I was coming back home in the bus,
and thought that I should learn to be satisfied with small things as well as big ones. I can not go on to be a perfectionist.
And I think that also my emotion played major role in making me feel that way.
I was feeling really low for few days, thinking that I am not doing anything.. kind of rebuking myself of what I should have been doing.
I will have to think more along this line.
