Workshop on Concept Skills Mapping 

A workshop on Concept Skills Mapping was organised in school on 27 March, 2015. It was the workshop conducted for primary teachers by Ms. Shyda Rana, a highly experienced educator with over 16 years of teaching experience at various levels and a core member of the FDRC team since 2009. The workshop explores Concept Skills Mapping as a learning tool to help teachers to teach and evaluate. As we all know that the child is the heart and soul of the education system, Ms. Shyda very skillfully stressed on the child centered approach. She focused on the main subject whom an educator must always stress upon and the one who matters most to us is ---- the child.

She talked about the Paradigm shift of today’s ideology from teaching to learning. Now role of a teacher is to facilitate and not to teach. She talked about Learning beyond the textbook. A teacher is now an educator and she must connect the classroom practices to the outside world.

A teacher should not only stressed upon the covering (completion) of the syllabus but must work upon to uncover and discover what he is teaching. Syllabus is just a part of the bigger term Curriculum which emphasis on the holistic development of the child.

Ms. Shyda then asked all the educators to add two important words ---- Know and Do, around which they all must work upon.

Know is for Knowledge which is infinite thus there must be a proper gradation of concept according to the stages / age of the child development.

Do stands for the skills, which a child shall acquire while performing the activities designed to attain the specified concept.

Ms. Shyda talked about how Concept Skills Mapping is useful for primary level and why it is to be done.

Concept mapping provides a graphical summary of what students have learned, which in turn will help teacher to detect students prior knowledge and understanding of the concept at each level/class to organize teaching and learning activities in a way that is meaningful to them.

Ms Shyda talked about the types of chart in which Concept mapping can be done i.e.…

1 Hierarchy Chart and 2 Descriptive Charts

Aim:  Is to enhance competency in building conceptual clarity. Here she emphasized the use of competency rather than skill, as everybody can learn a skill but when we practice again and again and reinforce our core ability to perform that skill becomes our competency.

Objective:

* To identifying concepts to be internalized by learners at each level.

* To see the gradation of the concepts from one class to the other. To see the inter relationship in the concepts level wise and within the level.

All the participants were divided into different groups according to the subjects and were asked to do concept mapping for the subject given for classes I to IV. Teachers have to read the syllabus identified the concepts hidden in the lessons of the textbook. They have to tell the activity used for the concept and shall know which skills are developed through which activity. They should also integrate life skills in them. Teacher must be aware of the learning outcomes of the activities done.

Thus the workshop was full of interaction, introspection and enriching experience for all of us. 

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ASL Workshop in D.A.V Vasant Kunj

Mathematics Seminar 2014

DAV Public School, Vasant Kunj organized a two day workshop on training and assessment of listening and speaking skills for classes VI to VIII. The workshop commenced with lamp lighting accompanied by rendition of mantras to inspire the participants to share and learn from their fellow teachers.  The Manager of the School, Sh. H. L. Bhatia addressed the participants stressing the importance of listening to one self and being true to one’s profession by being a lifelong learner.

 The in-house resource person, Ms. Manju Arora, PGT English discussed the assessment parameters with the participants from different branches of DAV after introducing the aims of Assessment of Speaking and Listening (ASL) and its necessity. She detailed the aspects of various language functions, effective use of pronunciation, intonation and questioning techniques for effective communication.  She shared  a lot of activities with the participants on how to enhance the  speaking and listening skills of their students  and making their classes interactive.

The need to make our learning student centred was also discussed and the prescribed texts were used to devise communicative lesson plans. The participants were suitable guided on the assessment procedure to be followed by involving the participants in role play simulating the exam settings. At the end of the workshop the participants felt that they were competent to assess language, its accuracy and range, lexis and structure, fluency and pronunciation.

 The workshop culminated with the Principal, Ms. Anju Puri’s interaction with the participants sharing with them some valuable tips on class management and students’ involvement.

MATHEMATICS SEMINAR-2014

A Mathematics seminar titled “Activity Based Teaching of Mathematics” was conducted at D.A.V. Public School, Vasant Kunj on 27^th & 28^th of June 2014.The resource persons were Mrs. Ashu Thareja (Miranda House) and Mrs. Jasneet Kaur, Research Fellow (Jamia Milia Islamia).

The workshop commenced with lamp lighting accompanied by rendition of mantras to inspire the participants to share and learn from their fellow teachers.  The Manager of the School, Sh. H. L. Bhatia addressed the participants stressing the importance of listening to one self and being true to one’s profession by being a lifelong learner.

Innovative Classroom Practices were recognized as the need of the hour and were presented by the resource persons as focus areas to foster and nurture mathematical skills, especially for the introduction of new concepts in the areas of binary operations (addition, subtraction multiplication , and division ) , fractions , L.C.M & H.C.F.

A thought provoking and novel approach towards teaching fractions, LCM, HCF, tables etc. was the pivotal thrust for the ‘Jodo Gyan’ team who demonstrated their creative approaches through various mathematical kits..

The highlight of the session was the invaluable and enthusiastic exchange of ideas amongst the teachers wherein several pertinent problems were addressed, coupled with a complete consensus for the suggested solutions.