Sukhwant Singh Thaper Date :01.07.1994
PGT-English, Delhi Public School Korba
The Principal
Delhi Public School Korba
Sub : Report regarding ELT Workshop-cum-Seminar held at DPS Noida from 2nd May to 7th May 1994.
Sir,
With due regards I would like to bring to your kind knowledge that as per your office order……………… dated ……………… I had gone to Delhi and have attended the CLT Workshop-cum-Seminar at DPS Noida from 2nd May to 7th May 1994.
Our resource persons were Dr. Kumar and Mrs. Karuna Sharma. Both of them were from CIEFL, Hyderabad and were coincidently husband wife. The coordinator of the Workshop-cum-Seminar was Mrs. Renu Chaturvedi who is PGT in English at DPS Noida.
As this time the Workshop-cum-Seminar was held at Noida we were fortunate enough to have come in contact along with the Resource Persons and many other personalities who are directly associated with the Interact in English Project. These persons took up several sessions and through their demonstrations helped the participants to get familiarized with the new methodology adopted for the teaching of English at Classes IX & X. Some of these persons were as follows :
Mrs. Kiran Bhatt (Modern School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi) who is associated with the Materials Production Group of Interact in English.
Mrs. Kiran Kashyap (K.V.No. II, Delhi Cantt)
Mrs. Reinu Nagarkar (DPS, R.K. Puram,Sect. XII, N.D.)
Mrs. Urmila Guliani (K.V., N.M. Road, JNU, N.D.)
Mr. S.K. Gangal (CBSE) who is associated with Testing and Evaluation Group of Interact in English.
Mrs. Meera Balachandran (Ramjas School, R.K. Puram, N.D.) who is associated with the In-service Teacher Training Group of Interact in English. And-
Mr. Prem Mathur (CBSE)
Besides these persons we also got the opportunity of meeting Mr. S.L. Dhawan (Principal, DPS Noida), Dr. B.N. Kripal, Justice Dalbir Bhandari of Delhi High Court and Mr. Taneja (Vice-Principal, DPS Noida), during the Inaugural Function, Lunch Sessions and Valedictory Function.
There were nearly 42 participants from other Delhi Public Schools of different places like, Delhi, Ranipur, Haridwar, Bhilai, Bokaro, Ongul, Dhanbad, Damanjodi etc., as well as from some other well to do English Medium Schools of New Delhi like the Modern School of Bara Khambha, etc.
In all it can be said that this Workshop proved to be of great help in meeting number of different persons associated with the changes brought in the English curriculum at Class XI and X level, as well as for interacting with many English Teachers and sharing our experiences.
Including me there were quite a few number of participants who had had the experience of having attended the ELT Workshop conducted by CBSE. The Resource Persons considered it to be a kind of blessing in disguise for they kept us involved with number of questions, both from their side as well as from the other participants, regarding our experiences of having dealt with the Interact in English.
I was asked to convey my experiences of having dealt with the Group Discussions. This was appreciated by Dr. Sunil Kumar, who advised me to write about my experiences to the CENBOSEC magazine.
There were many notes and handouts provided to us during the workshop. most of these notes are similar to the ones which were provided during the ELT Workshop held at the Daly College Indore last summer. These circulars have already been circulated to all the members of our English Faculty for their references and implementations.
The letter ……………. dated ……………. sent to the parents of Class IX & X was appreciated by the Resource Persons as well as other participants. In this context I would also like to bring to your notice that I’m preparing a ‘Questionnaire’ for the parents of Class XI & X in order to know / understand our students in a better way.
Some of the points highlighted in this Workshop were as follows :
English teaching should be skill based instead of content base.
Classroom teaching should be child-centered instead of being teacher centered.
Teacher of language should act as a Manager / Felicitator inside the classroom rather than acting as an informer.
Learners should be encouraged to improve their spoken English by seeing to it that they are not intimidated every now and then by constant correction, i.e., by laying emphasis on accuracy at the initial level itself.
Grammar should be taught in a context and not in isolated sentences. Moreover Grammar exercises should be taken up regularly for a little time instead of teaching Grammar on only some fixed day, i.e., once in a week and teaching it for the whole period. In other words Grammar should be integrated with MCB and Literature Book.
Teacher’s Diary should be written exercise-wise. That is, they should mention that how a particular exercise will be taken up.
Poems should be read out in the class once or twice and instead of explaining the poem line-wise or word-wise, as used to be done in the traditional method, questions giving an insight into the poem should be asked to the students and answers elicited from them.
In order to increase the interaction among the students they should be encouraged to give answers and others should be asked either to agree or disagree with the answers and give their suggestions if any.
Similarly students should be asked to comprehend the meaning of difficult words from the given context themselves or in peer groups. This kind of process is called as ‘Word Attack’.
We shouldn’t tell the students what they can find out for themselves. This way learning becomes interesting and at the same time lasting.
Students should be made aware of different text-types and their important features. For example while making them write on some ‘Process’ they should be made aware of its features that (i) we should make use of Sequence Markers (first, next, then, before, after, simultaneously, alternatively, etc.) (ii) we should write in Active Voice if the doer is important and should write in Passive Voice if the action is to be emphasized and (iii) we should make use of Simple Present Tense.
Exercises given to the students should be scientific in approach. That is they should proceed from Controlled to Guided to free expressions.
Language learners should be made aware of appropriacy of the language. That is, use of language in different situations.
Dramas should be first read out by different students in the class and then enacted also.
Best Speech / Debate prepared inside the class should be taken up in the Morning Assembly also. This would act as a very good incentive for the students.
Similarly Notices / Posters / Graphs prepared by the students should be highlighted on the School Notice Board / Students Notice Board / Class Notice Board.
To involve the students in the correction work. For without involving the learners in the correction work, checking work done separately will be pedagogically speaking of very little use.
To encourage the students to watch / listen / read English articles, Novels / News / Serials , on / in TV / Radio, Newspapers.
We should inculcate reading habit among the students. They should be asked to write a Book Review at least one per month.
We should test what is taught and check what is tested. That is, our objectives should be very clear-cut.
Our Question Papers should test all the skills.
Ambiguity should be avoided in the questions.
Rubrics in the question paper should be clear enough to be understood by the students.
Questions should be of all the levels.
Marks allotted should be clear.
Finally in this new approach more emphasis is to be paid on Learn, Learner and Learning than on Teach, Teacher and Teaching.
In the end I would say that this Workshop-cum-Seminar proved to be really a nice one.
On interacting with other participants I have felt that we are proceeding with the right approach as far as English teaching is concerned.
You will be also glad to know that after returning from Delhi I was given an opportunity of taking many sessions regarding teaching of English from Primary classes to Senior classes for the Workshop which was organized by the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for the Teachers of Jabalpur Zone at K.V. KSTPP Jamnipali.
In the end I thank you for the opportunity given to me for attending the seminar.
Thanking you,
yours sincerely,
Sukhwant Singh Thaper
PGT-English
PGT-English, Delhi Public School Korba
The Principal
Delhi Public School Korba
Sub : Report regarding ELT Workshop-cum-Seminar held at DPS Noida from 2nd May to 7th May 1994.
Sir,
With due regards I would like to bring to your kind knowledge that as per your office order……………… dated ……………… I had gone to Delhi and have attended the CLT Workshop-cum-Seminar at DPS Noida from 2nd May to 7th May 1994.
Our resource persons were Dr. Kumar and Mrs. Karuna Sharma. Both of them were from CIEFL, Hyderabad and were coincidently husband wife. The coordinator of the Workshop-cum-Seminar was Mrs. Renu Chaturvedi who is PGT in English at DPS Noida.
As this time the Workshop-cum-Seminar was held at Noida we were fortunate enough to have come in contact along with the Resource Persons and many other personalities who are directly associated with the Interact in English Project. These persons took up several sessions and through their demonstrations helped the participants to get familiarized with the new methodology adopted for the teaching of English at Classes IX & X. Some of these persons were as follows :
Mrs. Kiran Bhatt (Modern School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi) who is associated with the Materials Production Group of Interact in English.
Mrs. Kiran Kashyap (K.V.No. II, Delhi Cantt)
Mrs. Reinu Nagarkar (DPS, R.K. Puram,Sect. XII, N.D.)
Mrs. Urmila Guliani (K.V., N.M. Road, JNU, N.D.)
Mr. S.K. Gangal (CBSE) who is associated with Testing and Evaluation Group of Interact in English.
Mrs. Meera Balachandran (Ramjas School, R.K. Puram, N.D.) who is associated with the In-service Teacher Training Group of Interact in English. And-
Mr. Prem Mathur (CBSE)
Besides these persons we also got the opportunity of meeting Mr. S.L. Dhawan (Principal, DPS Noida), Dr. B.N. Kripal, Justice Dalbir Bhandari of Delhi High Court and Mr. Taneja (Vice-Principal, DPS Noida), during the Inaugural Function, Lunch Sessions and Valedictory Function.
There were nearly 42 participants from other Delhi Public Schools of different places like, Delhi, Ranipur, Haridwar, Bhilai, Bokaro, Ongul, Dhanbad, Damanjodi etc., as well as from some other well to do English Medium Schools of New Delhi like the Modern School of Bara Khambha, etc.
In all it can be said that this Workshop proved to be of great help in meeting number of different persons associated with the changes brought in the English curriculum at Class XI and X level, as well as for interacting with many English Teachers and sharing our experiences.
Including me there were quite a few number of participants who had had the experience of having attended the ELT Workshop conducted by CBSE. The Resource Persons considered it to be a kind of blessing in disguise for they kept us involved with number of questions, both from their side as well as from the other participants, regarding our experiences of having dealt with the Interact in English.
I was asked to convey my experiences of having dealt with the Group Discussions. This was appreciated by Dr. Sunil Kumar, who advised me to write about my experiences to the CENBOSEC magazine.
There were many notes and handouts provided to us during the workshop. most of these notes are similar to the ones which were provided during the ELT Workshop held at the Daly College Indore last summer. These circulars have already been circulated to all the members of our English Faculty for their references and implementations.
The letter ……………. dated ……………. sent to the parents of Class IX & X was appreciated by the Resource Persons as well as other participants. In this context I would also like to bring to your notice that I’m preparing a ‘Questionnaire’ for the parents of Class XI & X in order to know / understand our students in a better way.
Some of the points highlighted in this Workshop were as follows :
English teaching should be skill based instead of content base.
Classroom teaching should be child-centered instead of being teacher centered.
Teacher of language should act as a Manager / Felicitator inside the classroom rather than acting as an informer.
Learners should be encouraged to improve their spoken English by seeing to it that they are not intimidated every now and then by constant correction, i.e., by laying emphasis on accuracy at the initial level itself.
Grammar should be taught in a context and not in isolated sentences. Moreover Grammar exercises should be taken up regularly for a little time instead of teaching Grammar on only some fixed day, i.e., once in a week and teaching it for the whole period. In other words Grammar should be integrated with MCB and Literature Book.
Teacher’s Diary should be written exercise-wise. That is, they should mention that how a particular exercise will be taken up.
Poems should be read out in the class once or twice and instead of explaining the poem line-wise or word-wise, as used to be done in the traditional method, questions giving an insight into the poem should be asked to the students and answers elicited from them.
In order to increase the interaction among the students they should be encouraged to give answers and others should be asked either to agree or disagree with the answers and give their suggestions if any.
Similarly students should be asked to comprehend the meaning of difficult words from the given context themselves or in peer groups. This kind of process is called as ‘Word Attack’.
We shouldn’t tell the students what they can find out for themselves. This way learning becomes interesting and at the same time lasting.
Students should be made aware of different text-types and their important features. For example while making them write on some ‘Process’ they should be made aware of its features that (i) we should make use of Sequence Markers (first, next, then, before, after, simultaneously, alternatively, etc.) (ii) we should write in Active Voice if the doer is important and should write in Passive Voice if the action is to be emphasized and (iii) we should make use of Simple Present Tense.
Exercises given to the students should be scientific in approach. That is they should proceed from Controlled to Guided to free expressions.
Language learners should be made aware of appropriacy of the language. That is, use of language in different situations.
Dramas should be first read out by different students in the class and then enacted also.
Best Speech / Debate prepared inside the class should be taken up in the Morning Assembly also. This would act as a very good incentive for the students.
Similarly Notices / Posters / Graphs prepared by the students should be highlighted on the School Notice Board / Students Notice Board / Class Notice Board.
To involve the students in the correction work. For without involving the learners in the correction work, checking work done separately will be pedagogically speaking of very little use.
To encourage the students to watch / listen / read English articles, Novels / News / Serials , on / in TV / Radio, Newspapers.
We should inculcate reading habit among the students. They should be asked to write a Book Review at least one per month.
We should test what is taught and check what is tested. That is, our objectives should be very clear-cut.
Our Question Papers should test all the skills.
Ambiguity should be avoided in the questions.
Rubrics in the question paper should be clear enough to be understood by the students.
Questions should be of all the levels.
Marks allotted should be clear.
Finally in this new approach more emphasis is to be paid on Learn, Learner and Learning than on Teach, Teacher and Teaching.
In the end I would say that this Workshop-cum-Seminar proved to be really a nice one.
On interacting with other participants I have felt that we are proceeding with the right approach as far as English teaching is concerned.
You will be also glad to know that after returning from Delhi I was given an opportunity of taking many sessions regarding teaching of English from Primary classes to Senior classes for the Workshop which was organized by the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for the Teachers of Jabalpur Zone at K.V. KSTPP Jamnipali.
In the end I thank you for the opportunity given to me for attending the seminar.
Thanking you,
yours sincerely,
Sukhwant Singh Thaper
PGT-English
DPS Korba
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