Criticism Practice⏳

25-28th October 2021

Studying during a pandemic has its risks. Especially when we get a long gap from educational activities mainly useful for teaching school kids. We were shown a demo taken by our seniors at the beginning of the year. And that too was confusing, because we didn't know what teaching model it was based on, how to approach a lesson and one half of the class was only what we remembered. 

We were to take a 40-minute session, which was divided into 20 minutes each for one team. the teaching was based on three models- 2 ICT-based, 5 Activity-based, and 3 Models( Concept attainment model, advance organizer model, and Direct Instruction model). 

When the time came to choose, I was happy that I got at least the activity model for criticism. Priyanka was the other team member. She initiated to do the first course while I gave myself a pep talk to give my all for the second session which was more activity-oriented. We chose the chapter 'The School for Sympathy' from class 8th of SCERT text.  

Because of the heavy rain, we didn't take the class on the week it was scheduled. So criticism class officially began on the last week of October. Our turn came on Wednesday and we were ready to take the class by that time. 

Concept Attainment model

Criticism class being taken in the ICT room

                                        Observers and students 

I also did my role as an observer. we were asked to judge on various aspects and there was a discussion at the end of each criticism. Our teacher also gave us valuable insight. 

Observation Chart

It clearly helped all of us in making us understand our shortcomings and gave us a boost to improve them.