mini-lesson

Mini Lesson

Name     : M.Suriya.

Subject  : English-supplementary reader.

Topic     : A Mother’s Gift.

Date      : 25.01.2018.

Time     : 20 minutes.

Name of the observer : T.Selvakumar.

General Instructional objectives :

Ø  Acquires knowledge of the central theme of the supplementary reader ‘A Mother’s Day Gift’.

Ø  Understands the thoughts and feelings expressed in this story.

Ø  Comprehends the meaning of the new words.

Ø  Develops the LSRW skills.

Ø  Analysis the love and care of the students mother in their life.

Specific instructional objectives:

Ø  Recalls the events related to the supplementary reader.

Ø  Grasps the meaning of the new words.

Ø  Identifies the different views in the story.

Ø  Interprets the different views in the story.

Ø  Gives the central idea of the story.

Materials:

Ø  a chart depicting the main theme of the story.

Ø  A chart containing meaning of new words.

Content outline:

Ø  ‘A Mother’s Day Gift’ depicts about the emotional feelings of a child apsare. She has shifted to the new school. Apsara feels hesitated to introsuce her mother to attend the tea party. Because her mother’s face and neck was affected badly in the fire accident.

Ø  Later she came to know about her mother’s love and compassion towards her. Then she realized that beauty lies in the heart not in the appearance.

Ø  Grasps the new words like evasive, twinge, flinch etc.

Ø  Moral of the story:

Ø  MOTHERS LOVE CANNOT BE REPLACELE

Ø  BEAUTY LIES IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER.

Teaching outline:

Important skills are as follows:

1.Introduction:

   ‘A Mother’s Day Gift’ tells about a girl. Apsara who hesitated her mother to attend the tea party in her school. She not wants her mother to be insulted in front of others. Because her mother has a scars in her skin. Later, she realizes her mother’s scarifies.

2.Explanation:

“ A Mothers Day Gift” is a emotional story. Apsara is a emotional story. She has a new friend called selvi. she loves her mother a lot. But she hesitates her mother to introduce in the tea party in her school. Apsara’s mother met with a fire accident when she was a child. So, her mother has a scars in her face and neck. She not wants others to call her mother as a monsters.

   Later she knows her mother’s love scarifies for her. She realizes the inner beauty of her mother.

3.Questioning:

Why Apsara hestitate’s to introduce her mother?

State the central characters in the story?

Identify the central theme of the story?

What is the name of Apsara’s friend?

4.varying the stimulus:

 There can be variation of teachers position in the classroom while teaching. There can be also variation in voice pattern. Interaction takes place between the student and the teacher.

5.Non-verbal cues:

Positive non-verbal cues which includes smiling ,nodding of the head , a delighted laugh , patting on the shoulder , asks the students to clap etc., can be used for explaining the story.

6.Reinforcement:

Positive verbal reinforcement like saying good, very good,excellent,right,yes,correct,fine., etc can be used in the classroom for the desirable behavior of the students.

7.closure/summing up:

The topic will be summed up by repeating the central theme of the story ‘A Mothers Day Gift’.

8.Fluency in  communication:

The topic will be discussed by explaining and interacting with the students by asking questions and making the students to observe the pictures and charts regarding the topic. The teacher uses knowledge of effective verbal and non-verbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to foster active inquiry,collaboration and supportive interaction in the classroom.

Observation and feedback on the practice of integration of teaching skills:

Name of the student teacher: T.Selvakumar.       Duration: 20 minutes.

Teaching skills	Average	Good	Very Good	Total
Introducing		ü
Explaining	ü
Questioning		ü
Stimulus variation	ü
Non-verbal cues.		ü
Reinforcement		ü
Closure		ü
Fluency in communication.		ü

Range of score:8-24.

Over all assessment of mini-teaching:

Average:       Good: 8       very good:

Average:8 Good:9-16 very good;17-24.

                                                           Signature of the observer.

Practicing of mini teaching with five teaching steps:

1.Motivation:

 The teacher motivates the students by asking about their mother’s ? how much the students loves their mothers etc.

2.presentation:

The teacher announces the topic as ‘A Mothers Day Gift’ and write it on the blackboard.(cognitive link)

The teacher asks the students to describe their mother in one word.(recalls)

Shows the students a chart of the relationship between the mother vs daughter /son.

3.Interaction:(skill of questioning)

Write about the characters of Apsara?(low level questioning)

How does Apsara’s mother get affected?(middle level questioning)

What is the central theme of the story? why? (higher level questioning)

4.Reflection:(skill of stimulus variation-audiovisual)

The Teacher,

     Asks question on the central idea of the story. (recalls)

     Asks the moral of the story.(analyses)

     Asks the students to find the meaning of new words. (identifies)

 Asks them to write about their mother.(applies).

5.Concluding Activities:

 Prepare a scrap book which describes the characteristics of your mother.

Observation and feedback on integration of teaching steps in mini-teaching :

Name of the teacher: T.Selvakumar        Duration: 20 minutes

Teaching steps	Average	Good	Very good	Total
Motivation		ü		2
presentation		ü		2
interaction	ü			1
reflection	ü			1
Concluding activities.		ü		2

Range of the scores: 5-15

Over all assessment of teaching steps:

Average:     Good: 8  very good:

Average:5     Good:6-10   Very Good: 11-15.

                                

                                                               Signature of the observer.