WEEK 2 : Reflection

As I have mentioned in nicenet that there are largely two types of development that teacher need to explore;

1. consider all the ways in which the teacher can learn and improve independently.
2. Experience of other, read books on teaching and browsing internet.


Teacher can also help learn themselves is to think carefully about what they do. People often say that making mistake is a learning experience, but this is only so if it is recognized as a mistake and the learners for it are carefully thought through.
Our tutor used to say “Teachers need to reflect on their practice” and so, on the course too. We should always remember that reflection on our practice is an essential part of a developing teacher.

First day of a week is always been an excitement for me since I joined this course, new mails, new topic to discuss and new comments to read. Google!, Yahoo! and Altavista! was only the search engine I knew. This week, going through new (for me) master of search engine called www.noodlettool.com introduced by our tutor Mr. Robert, I was able login many other search tools; namely www.onestopenglish.com, www.oup.com, www.publishing.combridge.org, Reading through post posted by class mate I was able to find many other search tools which I haven’t heard before. I did scanning of few and found out they are all important and relevant for our daily teaching. I have listed down the entire search engine and pasted on my wall where it is easily accessible. My excitement would have been doubled have I had the opportunity of having high speed internet.

Planning is an important part of teaching. As well as helping the flow and progression of an individual lesson. Planning a lesson is not done without writing objective(s). This week course, browsing through Pennsylvania State University’s ABCD method of writing objective, I had to give second thought whether we could implement in our school. So I called upon few English teacher and discussed with them, teachers said; our present practice of writing objective using ‘SMART’ (S- specific, M – measurable, R – Realistic, and T – timely) idea do not differ from ‘ABCD’ method. We finally came to conclusion that a good lesson plan does not teach the class, it is the teacher how he/she implement the plan. But the floor was also reminded that if we have good lesson objective teacher automatically teaches well.

Final project: describing a class and imagining how children would be benefited from making a technology-inspired change was the toughest activity I had. This activity wouldn’t have been the toughest if all of my present children have had an opportunity of having computer knowledge before. My children are yet to learn basic computer skills in years ahead. Any way I am confident that plans of our education ministry of providing IT class to all school going children do not go in vain.

Jigme Norbu