WALO (PLP)- 1

Name: Jaydeep Mehta o o Critical Friend: Shridhar Jagtap

Keep a regular update on my DP about my practice. Share this with a subject colleague. Take regular feedback about my teaching practice from students during classroom discussions.

Keep a regular update on my DP about my practice. Share this with a colleague Creating a digital portfolio was an awesome learning opportunity which I had never expected to do in my 12 years of teaching in SNK.I was also scared and terrified about the idea of putting such an important and personal record public as people view anything like this in different ways. But after looking at the DP of Vikas Patil Sir & Sanjay Nath and Sarvashreshtha Sir, I got the inspiration to make one for myself. I updated my desired results in all the roles that I have to play, created tasks for achieving each of the goals, manner in which I take feedback for the tasks done and evidences to support the tasks. Along with roles, I also created pages monthwise wherein work in progress can be evident. I have prepared and updated my portfolio till November 2013 and am eager to continue for the next term with zeal and motivation provided by my mentor and HOD. I have yet to share this with a colleague. But I will do it by 15th of December. How this has become a learning opportunity for me is the ease with which I can have a glance at everything I want to achieve and everything that I need to do at one location. This saves a lot of time in searching for things scattered at different platforms. Take regular feedback from students about my teaching practice during classroom discussions As a general practice, I gave students some questions to be solved in class based upon the video of the topic to be seen at home. Students were grouped in threes and I went from group to group to see if they were discussing the questions and were all actively involved. Towards the end of the class, I asked one student from each group to answer one question which they were able to answer well which made me believe that all the members of the group had understood the answer. By chance I asked another student from one group to restate the answer, but he was not able to complete the answer with all points. This struck me like lightning and I immediately realized that the student had not participated in the discussion with complete intent whereas the other two members had understood well. I found that the child who could not answer was having some problem in understanding of the question. Based upon this problem, I took another approach. I set up a protocol wherein students discuss few questions in group but nobody writes anything at that time. For first 20 minutes they only need to discuss all the questions. Then I instructed them to go to their own places and for the next 15 to 20 minutes, they write the answers individually. After the writing time was over, I asked the student who could not answer before to speak one answer. The student was able to answer that question to my greatest satisfaction and I could easily provide him the missing link in completing the answer. In this way I have refined my practice and I would continue to use this protocol in all classroom discussions while implementing BLM in class. The students also reflected their keen interest using this protocol and found out that wasting of discussion time could be avoided and they could easily do only one thing at a time with focused attention