WORKED AS A CO-ORDINATER IN WOCKHATHON, ORGANISED BY WOCKHARDT HOSPITAL

Walkathon was a walk to promote healthy living, This event took place in Kasturchand park on 29thNovember 2009, So my work was to help people in doing registration and ensuring that they walk properly in line.

Before the walk has started, I distributed water bottles and T-shirts to all the participants. I ensured everyone gets the chance to fill the forms for registration even advised people for not throwing things while walking or inside the park.

As participants were back from walk, they were hungry so I was providing them with food by giving packet of snacks to each participant. This activity has given me real task as its not easy to attend everybody at a time as lot of patience is also required as every person react in different manner but I would like to that marketing manger of hospital who allowed me to work with them. I have learned that people are conscious about their health and they love to take part in such events.

The learning outcome is that I bcome aware about my skill of handling and coordinating the event. I learned how to take initiative and work collabaratively with the other members of the event. The ethical implication involved in this activity is that people came to know the importance of walking. They understood that walking is very necessary to get rid of health- related problems.

REFLECTION ON TEACHING STUDENTS OF ASHRAM

This time, My classmates and I were accompanied by our Hindi teacher,Miss. Vijayalaxmi Kanate. As I have already decided to proceed with the same profit and loss lesson, I gave them the brief explanation on what I taught them last time and then I taught them the next topic about how to deal with word problems.

Initially, I told them to read question twice and understand the key words used in the question such as selling price, cost price, per kilogram and amount of profit or loss and also what the question is asking. I told them to write the information, which is given in the question first and then start solving.

     There were questions in their textbooks, which were simple and direct such as cost price and selling price were given and one was supposed to find loss or profit. But still, understanding question is big deal as my students were finding little difficulty to understand and write in the proper format. So I dictated them the requirement and method according to question. I wrote in their notebook the format also so that they can refer to it while solving the questions.

   Then after solving few questions, I taught them a Hindi lesson about ‘Happy Family’. And then I gave them some questions based on it.

This time, their response was better than last time and I felt now they were much comfortable with the profit and loss lesson.

I learned that practice and understanding are two major issues while dealing with questions. Since, this profit and loss unit is large, I will continue with it for next time also.

REFLECTION ON TEACHING STUDENTS OF ASHRAM

This time, my classmates and I were accompanied by our IB coordinator, Mr. Shiv Santosh Jha. This time, I had planned to proceed with the same lesson on profit and loss but as one of my students went to his place, I could not continue with it.

So I taught the other student Hindi grammar such as types of noun, pronoun and adjectives. Basically I taught him the way of identifying the noun, pronoun and adjectives with its type in a sentence. First I asked him, what is noun, pronoun and adjectives. He answered correctly for noun but he was confused about how to explain the difference between pronoun and nouns. He was even confused about exactly is adjectives.

So I felt that I should start with basic explanation of noun, pronoun and adjectives and then I should teach him the types of it.

Then I explained him with examples such as I told him that if I use his name in a sentence such as Sandeep is going to a park then ‘Sandeep’ is a noun and If I say the same sentence such as he is going to a park then that ‘ he ‘is a pronoun. Similarly I explained him the adjectives with an example of sandeep is walking slowly so ‘slowly’ is an adjectives. Then after this, I proceeded for types of it and taught him the types with examples.
I feel Sandeep is always eager to learn new things and he enjoys learning. Whatever I teach him, he always gives his response to it. This time also after explanation, I gave him sentence for identification of noun, pronoun and adjectives. So he was able to identify all of them. So I liked it.

I learned that one should teach or learn basic meanings first and then move to types or else learning and teaching of types becomes difficult.