Integration of ICT in teaching and learning reflection for the month of October

 Information

Class III

Date: 28/10/21

Subject: English

Topic: Singular and Plural noun.

Objective: By the end of the lesson a child will be able to;

1. change singular noun to plural noun.

 Reflection

On 28^th October I taught lesson integrating ICT in class 3. It was English and the topic was singular and plural noun. The children were aware of the singular and plural noun. But they know only one rule that is; make noun plural by adding -s. In today’s lesson they were taught the 8 rules how noun is changed into plural forms. Children were explored through video tutorial to make them understand the concept. Then I explained them in more detail and with more examples.

The content they learned are we can add -es to the noun that end in ch, sh, o,  s, ss, x, and z. The examples are Ostriches, Dishes, Mangoes, Buses, Princesses, foxes and quizzes.

Some noun ending in -o takes only s. The examples is piano-pianos.

Noun that ends in a consonant -y. Change -y to -i and add -es. The examples are city-cities and country-countries.

Noun that ends in a vowel followed by -y change into plural by adding -s. Example key-keys.

Noun that ends in -f or fe, replace with -ves. The example is leaf-leaves.

Few nouns do not follow the rules. Example chef-chefs.

 Some noun has the same form in singular and plural which is known as irregular noun. The example are sheep-sheep, hair-hair and deer-deer.

A few singular nouns form their plural by changing the inside vowel or vowels. The example are man-men and tooth-teeth.

 

In the first activity I let them watched the video and then I asked them to take note of what they have understood. Then I asked few children to explain what he/she have learned. Then we moved with the video by explaining with more examples. As follow up activity I asked few questions and discussed more on their responses.

Then I have displayed the worksheet on the screen and let children write the answers in pair. Few pairs presented their writing and we discussed thoroughly.

After that I displayed another worksheet and let them do it individually. I went around and checked individual work. I found 60 to 70 children could do very well. I understood that these children learn better from videos then from me. I was happy and satisfied with my lesson because if we explain our self, we would never do all these rules together. But from the video it was done. I could repeat the video for many to make them understand more. In our classroom teaching we may repeat for 3 to 4 times only. I was not tired as ICT has done more work and I am free of chalk dust as I used the screen to display the work sheets. It doesn’t take time to show screen like writing on board.

Therefore, I am realizing more and more advantages with the integration of ICT in better teaching and learning.

Video Tutorial from NNC

Short Records

 

Work sheet

ICT Integration report for the month of August

 

                    Information

School: Dekiling Middle Secondary School

Gewog: Dekiling

Dzongkhag: Sarpang

Class:II

Subject: English

Class strength:25 students

Topic: Blending and segmenting (Two consonant sound)

Objective: By the end of the lesson a child will be able to:

1.     Segment and read the sound.

2.     Blend the sound and read the words correctly.

 

 

                    Reflection

The use of Information and Communication Technology has been mandatory in this 21^st century teaching and learning. ICT has increased so rapidly that we can no longer ignore them especially, the teachers in the school. ICT have really influenced our lives in one way or the other. These days, we see ICT being used to perform several functions that have made our life much easy. It has a significant impact on modern society. When ICT is integrated into lessons, students become more engaged in their work. It provides different opportunities for children to learn through fun and enjoyable in terms of teaching the same things in different ways. With the implementation of New Normal Curriculum, the integration of ICT has increased in teaching and learning. I use ICT to teach children through video tutorial from the link provided, search and explore for the information from Google, provide works like home work, projects, assessment (short test) through LMS (Learning Management System). I use ICT to provide information and discuss about the children’s work and improvement with parents through various media like WeChat, messenger and telegram. ICT helps teachers, students and parents to come together.

 

It was on 5^th August, 2021, I taught a lesson on “Blending and Segmenting-consonant blends” to the children of grade two, through YouTube video clip link Phonics Kids 4B Unit 2 | Consonant Blends | “l" Blends | bl cl fl gl pl | - YouTube . I found children were very active, attentive and engrossed watching the video clip. Children were made to repeat the sounds and reading. They listed the words by listening to the sounds and words. Children repeated and practiced the blending and segmenting of two consonant. After the lesson, I noticed that many children were able to speak out the sound clearly without much help. I was just monitoring; I found many children were really enjoying the lesson.

As the follow up activity, I asked individual child to read the words in sound one by one and recorded the check list. I found 90 percent of the children could achieve the objectives and few failed. I thought it could be due to the different multiple-intelligent of learning.

After the lesson, I realized that I was not too tired as I used to. Integration of ICT minimized the workload of teacher as we don’t have to shout and repeat, which was done by the computer.

Beside every successful story, there will be unsuccessful too. Likewise, we all know that NNC is ICT integrated syllabus. And it is definite that it will improve the standard of teaching and learning for teachers and students. The present scenario of my school is really pathetic, every teacher has to book the ICT laboratory, junior ICT laboratory and projector hand before due to many sections. Teachers are loaded with lap tops and speaker. Many teachers have to cancel and change the teaching strategy from ICT integration to the olden style because of challenges due to the shortage of computers and sometimes net problem in our school. We have 16 computers shared by senior students (Classes VII to X) and the junior groups (PP to VI) have to share one LCD screen, 55 inches. We hardly get the opportunities. Any way it is somehow supporting our needs. Further for the fully integration of ICT in teaching and learning, I heard that our government is working and let’s hope and pray for the successful achievement of the mission, vision and goals of the Education of Bhutan.

 Glimpse of the lesson