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Do's & Don'ts for Teachers on reopening of the Schools

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Dushyant Das
6/25/2023
3 min read
Do's & Don'ts for Teachers on reopening of the Schools
Do’s & Don’ts for Teachers on School Reopening
The schools are calling.
Everybody, Pull up the socks.
The first week after the reopening of the schools is the most crucial week, both for the learners as well as the teachers. This first week makes sure, how the rest of the session would go, for both the learner and the teacher.
Have you seen a cricket bowler just before he takes his first over of bowling and during that first over?
Before the over, he warms up.
During the first over, he finds his line & length.
He also understands the nature of the pitch.
This is what’s to be done on the first week of the school reopening session. And this is not just for the teachers and the learners but also for the entire school.
Day-1
1. Talk about their summer vacation. Tell them about your own vacation.
2. Make them smile as much as you can.
3. Discuss about the experiences they had in the vacation.
4. Encourage them to show case something they have learnt during the vacation.
5. Don’t even talk about the new course structure and the difficult higher order syllabus.
6. Try to take lunch with them.
7. Do not give any instruction directly.
8. Don’t ask direct questions of the previous year.
Day -2
1. Crack jokes at the beginning of the class.
2. Motivate them to be better than their last session.
3. Make them feel you will make this higher class, easier for them.
4. Discuss some topics of the previous year’s class and connect the present year’s class with those topics.
5. Just give them the feel that there is actually nothing bigger and serious about this higher class.
6. Gain their trust by showing examples on the board by taking a topic of the previous year and a topic of the present year.
7. Do not give any direct instruction.
8. Don’t ask direct questions from the previous year.
Day-3
1. Crack a joke.
2. Make the environment lighter for the learners to have the courage to open up the book and notebook.
3. Give them the freedom to scribble in the notebook. Otherwise, they will exhaust their entire energy and focus in following the protocols and not learning anything out of it. Harsh but that’s how it is.
4. Give the glimpses of the previous year’s connected topic and make them recall the same.
5. Then start introducing this year’s topic and establish the easiest connect between the two.
6. Don’t make them feel that they can’t do it. Kill their fear.
Day-4
1. Crack a joke.
2. Introduce the syllabus and tell them the actual sequence in which you will proceed.
3. Teach very little, elaborate little more.
4. Give examples and practice questions from the highest category of ease.
5. Give similar questions for practice at home.
6. Tell them that you are there if they find it difficult.
Day-5
1. Crack a joke.
2. Revisit the previous lecture and seek queries from the learners.
3. Ask bout the practice work on a very lighter note.
4. Extend the topic to a little higher level.
5. Make sure the learners are actually done with their queries.
Day-6
1. Seek a joke from any of the learner. This will create a lighter mood in the class. And other learners will come prepared with a joke from the next week.
2. Teach them with activities and role plays that weekend.
3. Give them some team activity for peer learning.
4. Ask them to teach a little portion of the topic.
5. Ask them to speak for a minute.
6. Simply ask them to end up with some practice work for the next day .
DD

Dushyant Das

Educational consultant and founder of Justforteachers, passionate about creating fearless teachers and improving the education system through practical insights and real-world experiences.

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