Wed 30th Sept
This morning we learnt to create a website for ourselves. It was exciting and a high voltage class. Please do check out the link. I am now a proud owner of a website!!
Lunch with the faculty of the teacher college. It was a pizza lunch. It's amazing to see teachers/professors as old as 70- 75 years so active.
Post lunch it was English Language Learning with Mila. Yesterday we had been divided into various groups and assigned various methods to do presentations on. My group was assigned "direct method". We decided to teach Common nouns using this method. My group members began the lesson using pctures/ games and objects. One member ( Anahit from Armenia) taught thro reading a passage and dictation. I summarized the session with a roleplay and song- farmer in the den.. My teaching was appreciated by my friends. Some of them took down the song!
Session with Tim
We had an intense discussion on the methods and constraints we have in our own country. We did thinking and reflecting. The questions were probing based on the Socratic Method. We also discussed on the qualities of a good citizen.
It's pleasantly surprising to note that in Armenia the govt has instructed teachers not to speak more than 5 minutes. The rest is learning involving students. Also students do not have to go thro' grilling exams and tests like our students.
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