Splash of Creativity: Just simply work on Alice

Splash of Creativity: Just simply work on Alice: “What’s the most resilient parasite? An idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rew...

We at DAV Pushpanjali are proud to host workshop –

Professional Development for teachers -Alice Workshop- GSWA

The workshop will be helpful for teachers it will :

1. Develop skills in animation, storytelling, creating short animated movies and educational video games.

2. Equip the teachers to use new innovative methods of teaching and learning for the classroom

3. Encourage team work and collaboration.

4. Engage the participants in visual thinking and fuelling creativity

5. The Alice interface facilitates problem solving and logical thinking.

 DAV Pushpanjali , Delhi ,India  is always ahead in promoting educational innovations, we were associated with Oracle education technology programs since 2005.Its a long journey and it has benefited us in every possible way. We are able to promote development of 21st century skills amongst our students, connect to the world, perform new educational experiments, and provide professional development to our teachers. Its programmes have helped us in continuous comprehensive evaluation of our students and are effectively related to school curriculum and global welfare.

We also appreciate Oracle’s commitment to education; it has worked hard to advance education with state - of -the -art -technology programs that prepare students for life and work in the 21st century. It is a great platform to get associated with Oracle Education initiatives to stay connected with latest innovations and developments in the whole world in the field of education.

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Sustainable City Project

What is the cause of Mushrooming old age homes?

a.Selfish,misguided children
b.Interefernig parents
c.Attempt for independence
d.Poor upbringing
e.Lack of moral values
f.Financial causes
g.Any other

Follow up of training at DLF Public School

For the teachers of DLF Public School,follow up message space......

Training conducted by me for 35 teachers at DLF Public School,Ghaziabad on 4th October & 5th October 2010.

All the teachers please complete your thinkquest projects by April first week and discuss your problems and progress here.

What are the problems of your city?

What are the problems of your city?
Have you done anything to solve that problem?
If not...then do you plan to find a solution?
Suggest a few solutions.

My City....I will transform it into a sustainable city

Today our cities face a lot of chaos and are full of problems like pollution,overpopulation,lack of basic amenities.What will you do to make your city a sustainable city?

Parent and a child

A parent with an autistic child has to go through a lot of problems,we all are the members of the society so we want you to try to feel how that parent feels.Answer the following questions and leave a message that how can we,our government help an autistic child.

Parent visitors are requested to answers the following questions:

Q1.How will you feel in the following situations?

a.When your child never responds to you.
b.When your child never speaks to you.
c.When your child is never able to express his emotions,pain,hapiness.
d.When your child never smiles back to you.
e.When you have to take care of your child forever and he or she is dependent on you forever.

What is a right?

Student visitors.What do you think a right is?

Also read the following situations and explain are their any limitations to your rights and freedom.

Playing cricket and breaking window of your neighbours.
Playing loud music and disturbing neighbours.
Driving fast and breaking road rules.
Watching movies whole night and not studying at all.
Talking and disturbing the class.

Happy New Year

I wish all the visitors a happy and prosperous and a very happy new year.

History of cricket

WRITE A SENTENCE ON ABOVE PERSONALITIES RELATED TO CRICKET.



Give one word answers for the following questins:

Q1.When was the first leg before law published?
Q2.What is the length of the cricket pitch?
Q3.Name the Australian cricketer who tried to play with the aluminium ball.
Q4.Who wrote Tom Brown's School Days?
Q5.Name the black player who led the west Indies team for the first time.
Q6.Which Indain community found the Oriental Cricket Club?
Q7.Write the old name of ICC.
Q8.Who was the first test captain of India?
Q9.Where are the headquarters of ICC located?
Q10.When was the Marylebone Cricket Club formed?


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HELPING SLOW LEARNERS

To help slow learners here are some proven ideas for educators

Have a quiet place to work where the child can be easily observed and motivated.

Keep the homework sessions short

Provide activity times before and during the homework

Add a variety of tasks to the learning even if it is not assigned such as painting a picture of a reading assignment.

Allow for success

Ask questions of the child while they are working about the assignment

Go over the homework before they go to bed and before they go to school

Teach them how to use a calendar to keep track of assignments

Read to the child

Use my “Three Transfer” form of learning in which the student must take information and do three things with it besides reading. For example, read it, explain it to someone else, draw a picture of it, and take notes on it.

Be patient but consistent.

Do not reward unfinished tasks

Challenge the child

Have the child do the assignments that are the most difficult first and leave the easier ones to later. Call it the dessert principle.

Don’t be overprotective. Students who have parents that frequently intercede in their child’s education are teaching that student that the parent does not respect their abilitites. If you do call a teacher make sure you are seeking a positive outcome. Remember that most teachers have dealt with numerous slow learners and have a vast amount of experience. However, sharing your child’s strengths and weaknesses could make the school year more beneficial for all concerned.

Contact the teacher if there is a concern. Calling an administrator solves nothing as the teacher is the sole legal judge of academic success.

Take you child to exciting places where they can see where academic success

is important. A trip to a local university or community college, a walking tour

of city hall, a visit to the fire station or a behind the scenes tour of a zoo are

highly motivating.

Examples of interventions for slow learners

Environment: Reduce distractions, change seating to promote attentiveness, have a peer student teacher, and allow more breaks.

Assignments: Shorter and with more variation, repeat work in various forms, have a contract, give more hands on work, have assignments copied by student, have students use three transfer method where they have to show the work three different ways.

Assessment: Shorter tests, oral testing, redoing tests, short feedback times, don’t make students compete

What to avoid: Cooperative learning that isolates the student and places him or her in a no win situation. Using a standardized test. Ignoring the problem.

What to encourage: Grouping with a patient partner. Learning about the child’s interests. Placing the student in charge. Mapping, graphic organizers, and hands-on work. Using Bloom’s taxonomy of tasks to make the assignments more appropriate. http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm

Resources for slow learners

Reach Every Child Links

ESL and ELL Links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/ESL.html

Help for Special Needs Students

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/special_needs.html

Assessment Accomodations

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/assessment.html#3

Homework Help Sites

http://www.reacheverychild.com/homework.html

Motivating Students

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/motivate.htm

Working with Parents

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/work_w_parents.html

Writing IEPs

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/ieps.html

Strategies for Motivating Young Readers

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/motivating_readers.html

Phonics sites

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/phonics.html

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/more-phonics.html

Teacher Liability Links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/teacher_law.html#4

Source

Above mentioned Valuable information taken from the site given below

http://carfamily.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/how-to-help-slow-learners-ideas-and-resources/

Happy New Year

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland


Year 2009 should spread

Peace
Progress
Happiness
non violence
tolerance
clean environment

in the world

Wish you all a very happy 2009.

PLI Mysore

I was invited to attend Project based learning institute held at Mysore from 10thDec.'2008 to 13thDec'2008.It was organised by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan inassociation with Thinkquest.Around 130 teachers from different Kendriya Vidyalayas participated in workshop.Expert facilitators were invited from different parts of the world to teach more new aspects of the project based learning.




Our Mysore Team

Workshop for project based learning with thinkquest

Our school organised a workshop for the teachers of DAV on 7th and 8th Nov'2009.in association with the thinkquest.It was a great learning experience and inspired teachers to make the teaching learning process more interesting for the students and ofcourse for them.




Pictures of the workshop:

Training DPS Teachers

Being a resource person is a great responsibility.I was appointed to train DPS teachers on 3oth september'08 and 1st october'08 to train them about think.com functionalities and project based learning.The whole exercise was a new learning experience for me.The workshop was conducted smoothly and our school was praised for our efforts to spread project learning amongst more and more teachers and students.

People who inspire us

Mahatma Gandhi - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, IPA: [moɦən̪d̪äs kəɾəmʧən̪d̪ gän̪d̪ʱi]) (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore) and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપુ bāpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and world-wide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km (249 mi) Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions, in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi was a practitioner of non-violence and truth, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.

The best student work on Think.com-
Sagrika Behl (vi)
Sameer (viii)
Sarang (viii
K.V Smitha(viii)
Shubhangi Verma (viii)
Ghanishtha Talwar (vii)
Well Done

Details of Photos posted :

First photo exhibits the chief guests of the occasion of launch of India development gateway portal ,next three photos are exhibiting the interaction of our school students with Mr. Madhav Rao Scindia (details of ocassion Launch of India Gateway portal Vigyan Bhawan on 4th July provided on the earlier post).

Fifth and sixth photographs showcase my visit to Singapore,Where I was invited to attend 21st century learning institute to learn Project Based Learning(details provided in the earlier posting)