Making Thinking Visible

 I had the privilege of attending an insightful professional development program led by Ms Sangita Chima on the topic of "Making Thinking Visible in the Classroom" (MTV). This approach, developed by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is all about bringing transparency to students' thought processes, enriching their learning experiences.

Our students enthusiastically embraced MTV activities, engaging in activities like See-Think-Wonder to spark their curiosity. This approach has not only boosted their classroom participation, but also fostered collaboration and led to the emergence of thought-provoking questions.

Here are some snapshots of our Amity School students actively involved in various tasks as part of their "Making Thinking Visible" project. A big shoutout to Ms. Sangitha for her outstanding leadership and dedication to enhancing our students' learning journey! 👏 #Education #MTV #CriticalThinking #professionaldevelopment #teaching

Wikimedia Movement Strategy Discourse

Recently, a meeting was held at Thrissure with active wikimedians in Kerala, India to discuss the future of the Wikimedia movement and its strategy. The discourse provided an opportunity for wikimedians to discuss their views on the direction the Wikimedia movement should take and the challenges it should address.

The preamble to the Wikimedia movement strategy promotes the idea of creating open knowledge for everyone and serves as the guiding principle for all activities. This aspiration was discussed in detail during the discourse, and participants gave their views on how best to realize this goal.It was agreed that the Wikimedia movement requires commitment from both contributors

Wikimedia training at Seedac College of Arts and Science

We are excited to announce that we recently held a successful Wikipedia editing training workshop for graduate students at Seedac College of Arts and Science, Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad,Kerala. The session was inaugurated by the college director, Mr. Shabeer, and was attended by 20 enthusiastic students. The workshop provided valuable hands-on experience for the participants, who learned how to edit and create Wikipedia articles. We believe that empowering students with the skills to contribute to the world's largest online encyclopedia is an important step in fostering digital literacy and promoting knowledge sharing. We are grateful to all the participants and the college leadership for their support of this important initiative.

The event page is given here

Useful videos for teachers

These are some useful videos to get better understanding of the different elements of a good lesson.

Thanks to Athena Education

Measuring progress in lessons	https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqqUDMwWeCk&feature=share
Structure of a lesson	https://youtube.com/watch?v=vQr4UXFcTp8&feature=share
What every teacher should know about 3.1.1. of the Inspection Framework (Teachers subject knowledge and knowledge of how students learn) to 1.3 (Students Learning Skills)	https://youtube.com/watch?v=HKJkgWS5JD0&feature=share
What every teacher should know 3.1.2 (Planning of purposeful lessons and effective learning environment)	https://youtube.com/watch?v=cHCTDQJ-H44&feature=share
What every teacher should know 3.1.3 (teacher-student interaction, questioning & dialogue)	https://youtube.com/watch?v=iIFvoso3Riw&feature=share
What every teacher should know 3.1.4 (meeting the needs of different groups)	https://youtube.com/watch?v=1mN7b2V0dVg&feature=share
What every teacher should know 3.1.4 (teaching for critical thinking, problem-solving, innovation and independent skills)	https://youtube.com/watch?v=TB8BX4Kxtpo&feature=share

 

How does teacher use of student assessment data change student outcomes

PD Session - Effective Worksheet preparation

PD Session - Effective Worksheet preparation 

Date	Sunday 7th October 2018.
Venue	Classroom - 9 P
Participants	Teachers from Grade 3 -12

Effective worksheet 

Introduction 

A worksheet, in the word's original meaning, is a sheet of paper on which one performs work. In education, a worksheet may have questions for students and places to record answers.

It can enrich their lessons.

SMART Boards, iPads, computers, chalkboards, and worksheets are all important tools of our trade. But remember: Tools can't enrich the learning process; only great teachers can.

Departmental Feedback session - Term 1

DEMONSTRATION CLASS

Introduction

A demonstration class was conducted by the Social Science Teacher Shiju Rappai, on the Geography lesson “Types of Farming”. The session was scheduled for the duration of 30 minutes. All the teachers of Social Science department attended the session.

Session Objective: To analyse the lesson plan and execution and trigger a discussion on Activity based lesson.

Session Progression: The teacher used a visual and triggered a brainstorming on farming in India. Then, the class was divided into 3 groups and a Jigsaw was conducted based on the three types of farming. The lesson was concluded with a quiz which was an assessment activity. The teacher then summed up the content of the lesson

CBSE Workshop

A training session was conducted by principal forum of CBSE in UAE at Habitat School

Almost all – 90%

most 75%- 90 %

Large majority – 61- 74 %

Minority – 50% t…

Attainment for good rating. ( Expectations )

The majority of students achieve above CBSE and International standard.

ASSET, IBT .. progress. - Majority. If it is more than 75% then it is outstanding.

We need to have 3 years of data of this.

Progress

It is important than attainment.

Entry Level test ( ELT / Baseline tests ) then Pts result – comparison.

40 minutes class – Beginning og the class what was students level,

after the class what is the level.

In a class room there will be minimum 4 groups.

Low achiever, middle achiever, high achiever and Special Education Needs (SEND).

These all groups should get progress after the class.

Participation in Second Academic Retreat

Theme: To Remain Where We Are, We need to Run Fast. Are we doing that?
On the 2nd of June 2018, the Corporate Academic Division of my school organized a follow up session of the Academic Retreat that was earlier held on 2 May 2018. The venue was the school auditorium. The session started at 10 am and ended by 2: 15 pm.
The objective of the session was to refine academic processes, set quality milestones, review existing performance, knowing that self-assessment and setting milestones is the key to organizational success.
Method: Was Introspective, Interactive, Intensive supported by online live questionnaire and live analysis
Some of the sessions included were,
1. Review of School leadership vision
2. Review of challenges in front
3. Review Actions points of first academic retreat
4. Review of works assigned to the teacher and quality of teaching
5. Communication
6. MOE Inspection
7. Review of basic academic administration
8. Grade 10 Result Analysis

Leadership

Training help us to develop ourselves. Even if we know many things , the same things inform by someone to do influence us. So each training programme help us for career development.Effective teacher training helps prepare new teachers for these challenges. And it provides an Understanding of the Benchmarks for Achievement Today we had an excellent leaders training Programme at Habitat School Ajman. Mr. Adil, Mr. Wasim Yousuf , Mr. Aravind and Mr. Haris led different presentation.

Session – 1

Where were we ?

Points noted during various presentation

If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment." John C. Maxwell

Session – 2

Best practices in writing business email

Session – 3

Leadership

Mr. Waseem read the story of Mullah Nasruddin.

(I wrote two lined and collected by searching it. It given below.)

The Way

One sunny spring afternoon Nasrudin was sitting peacefully by the imposing North gate of Samarkand watching the colourful string of caravans following each other and followed in turn by the curious glances of the populace.

Effective Teaching - Training

Today we had a good teaching training Programme at Habitat School.

Mr. Sanjay Kumar lead an intersting and motivation session. He is one of the famous trainer in UAE. Training was almost activity oriented. Topic was “Effective Teaching”

Date : 22/9/2016

Time : 2 PM to 4.20 PM

Venue : Habitat School Auditorium

Its lecture notes are following.

I am learner

1. I am a learner to learn is to change.

Our statement

Learning is a weapon which can change the world

2. Every Experience teaches me something

Our statement

Learn something from Everything

3. Every person I meet in my journey of life gives me lesson.

Our statement

Learning never ends

Theme – 2

Anybody would blossom if the atmosphere is suitable

Our statement

Environment has a key role in the development

Have a mind to explore various possibilities of the immediate surroundings

Our statement

We need to use whatever is available in that environment

See What is there rather than what is not there

Our statement

Find out and use what is available there .

Theme- 3

Activities

Pre Active	Inter Active	Post Active
Planning	Class Room interactive	Learning outcome

Class Room

What are the things are happening in our Class Room ? Can you list out

We listed like following. Later the discussion was on the basis of this points.

• Instruction
• Questions
• Presentation
• Using Learning Aids
• Jocks & Fun
• Appreciation etc

How can we ask question ?

How can I get answer from students ?

Before that , What are the purpose of asking question.

• To check realise or not
• To get attention
• To make them think about
• To motivate students
• To ensure pupil participation
• make more interactive
• to share different ideas.

Effective Questions

( Time was limit, We stopped writing )

Instruction

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Class Dojo Training - Dojo Sir,, Dojo Sir,

Last few years I was observing and asking to different teachers on Class Management. I searched and read different kinds of printed books as well as E books from google to know more about Class Management. When I decided to fly to UAE my old collegues shared that, Out side of India, the class management will be very difficulty.

That was almost correct. Here in our schools there are multinational students. :-)

Especially Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, lNigeria etc. Everyone has their own distinctive culture. So I started to find an ICT based solution for class dojo. At last I reached in Class Dojo and Kyambu. I did not use Kyambu yet. It is also almost same. So as a pilot project I used Class Dojo.

During this time one of my close friend Mr. Noufal & Shafeeq also asked. What is it? I explained and they were thrilled to use. The very next day other five teachers also started under my school.Everyone was very happy. Because it worked very well.

My students even they were in grade 10 , accepted this in a good spirit. At last they named me Dojo Sir and my colleagues mocked at me as “Dojo Akbar”

When awarding points to groups, students quickly sharpened up their behavior and displayed teamwork! They hold each other accountable to make sure their group is behaved and on task. This makes my class room e much easier. Earliear I was giving points for their discipline, Oral test, Quiz, Note book completion as House wise.

To get students even more engaged with ClassDojo, I gave a cerficate monthly. At the end of each month , I would view reports and reward the team that earned the most points with either a technology party

I wished to spread this App to all my collegues. But I did not share this to anyone. In 2016 Augest 21 we came from our kerala after enjoying two months vacation. We had training programme until 28^th Augest. Once My Supervisor Mr. Vijesh told me to explain this Class Dojo to Prinicpal. I tried to introduce this Dojo to our honourable Principal named Mrs.Jisha Jayan. She was also thrilled and requested me to familiarize CD to all my colleagues. So we gathered at auditorium.

Somebody were scratching in their head. Does he bring another head ache for us. So I started my training in this contest. At last many teachers asked many doubts . It was amazing experience. Many teachers created new ID the same day. Now it has been covered more that 75.

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