CHECKING OF NOTE BOOKS AND HOME ASSIGNMENTS
Dear Teachers
Your Kind Attention ,Please!!!
I am inclined to say something on this important academic activity. Teachers in different subjects assign written homework to their students on day-to-day basis. Students do not find any day (except vacation and breaks) when they might avoid it. Teachers predominantly expect students to write answers to the textual questions. What happens in most of the cases is that they copy and paste the readymade answers either dictated and written by teachers on the blackboards or from Internet or from the notebooks of their peers or from books. Very few respond themselves.
Such copied and pasted responses in the notebooks are presented to the teachers who check them largely without meticulous reading. This becomes evident when you find that glaring mistakes exist in the very vicinity of tick marks made in red ink made as a token of having checked the notebooks. Signatures are marked with date so that Headmasters or Principals may realize that teacher is very punctual in checking the homework of his students.
Once a parent, ostensibly annoyed on score
of marks given by a Primary Teacher to his daughter in a test, entered my
office. He showed me the corrected answer of a question by the teacher on the answer
script of his daughter. The same question was asked in the test. Student had
written the answer verbatim. When I
asked the teacher for the reason due to which the marks were cut. Teacher had
no reason to explain. I pitied the poor teacher. And parent moved out with a
sense of victory.
The following things, if followed by teachers,
might make this activity more engaging :
1. In pre-primary and primary classes, due attention should
be given by the teachers towards the formation of letters. Students should be
encouraged to write in textbook style of writing.Here individual attention is
of paramount importance especially when student writes something in the
presence of teacher.
3.Textual questions need to be orally
discussed in the class and thereafter the students should be assigned the task
of responding to those questions in their own language especially in languages
and Social Science.
5. Answers written by students need to be
thoroughly checked and common mistakes committed by them should be noted and
discussed in the class.
6. Those students who lag behind in writing correct answers -their
notebooks should be checked in their presence and the mistakes being committed
by them should be brought to their notice on the spot. This does wonders with
the students who lag behind in learning are given personal attention.
If you wish to say something on this topic, please share
your comments to make me more enlightened on this topic.
Good Afternoon Sir,
ReplyDeleteA beautiful example and it happens with I think all of the teachers. But regularity and focused checking and in the presence of students is a difficult task, but not impossible. I tried one thing , to make group leaders spl for 6 to 8 class. Group leaders and co leaders do the correction work of their peer carefully and correct with pencil. I found it wonderful as it is beneficial in all parameters, for teacher for group leader and for the students under a group leaders. And group leaders are not permanent if any team member get more marks than Group Leader or co leader, automatically they will become group leaders.
Thank you Sir
Bhupender Jaglan
KV No-1, RCF.
Thanks for your observations!!
ReplyDeleteIt is really true sir. Still when I observe the classes and cross checking the notebooks then it's found teachers don't assign homework in VI to VIII especially, just to make checking work smoother. Their explanation is that student of lower classes will not be able to write correct answer and it will overburden their evaluation task but it is marring the natural ability and creativity of students just by doing spoon feeding by writing all the answers on blackboard.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your observation. Principals must keep a close vigil.
DeleteReal and Right suggestions .
ReplyDeleteFirstly I feel student / teacher ratio need to be reduced to 25:1
ReplyDeleteSecondly teacher should be engaged in only academic activities. Now a days in almost every school teacher is engaged in non-academic assignments all the time.... teaching has become the last task in their work profile.
I feel first the above two points need to be corrected in order to bring any concrete improvements in the academic activity.
Absolutely correct 💯
DeleteDear reader
ReplyDeleteI fully agree what you said. Though govt has started taking steps to reduce class strength as per the directives ofNEP 2020 yet coming down to the ideal teacher taught ratio may take decades!! I also intended to give quality home assignments for which class strength is no bar.
Implementing 'Polestars of the Month' in my class has been a game-changer for minimizing notebook mistakes! I’ve showcased a poster in the classroom with remarks ranging from 0-5 mistakes, and proudly announce the names of the top five 'Polestars' with minimal errors, each month. Their names are displayed on the board for a month and they're awarded with a badge. This approach has proven highly effective in reducing mistakes and fostering a culture of excellence among my students. All students strive for their best to vie for this award.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
A difference maker
KVS
That's really interesting.
DeleteVery valuable
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