Teachers Training - Effective way in delivering the content incorporating ICT in teaching Social Studies

Training for Teachers on Effective way in delivering the content incorporating ICT in teaching Social Science. PPT Can be downloaded from here.
Some sample Slides image has been given below.
We can use wikipedia as a part of Collaborative learning

REPORT: PD SESSION BY INTERNAL RESOURCE PERSONS

Date	3rd January 2018, Wednesday
Venue	Habitat School Al Jerf, Ajman
Participants	All SST Faculty members from Habitat group of schools.

Introduction

An effective professional development plan was arranged by Habitat School management right after the winter break from January 2^nd to 6^th . On 3^rd  M.rAkbar Ali, Social Science HOD, HBT school were assigned to take a sessions for all the faculty members of HBT group of schools .The session started with an introductory speech by Mr. Stanly Lazar, Social Science HOD, IIS HBT. The introduction was emphasized on the topic “ Recent trends in Education”. It took half an hour and laid emphasis on the forth coming ministry inspection scheduled to be held in each schools in Ajman and focused on the parameters and requirements of the ministry.

After the introductory session Mr. Ramachandran dwelt on the topic “ Innovative approach in teaching Social Science”. The Main content included the following:

• Effective teaching in 40 minutes.
• What does KHDA stand for
• Departmental Action Plan.
• Differentiated lesson Plan.
• Class room teaching.
• Cross curricular links.
• Important documents for inspection.

KHDA Inspection

He gave a brief description about what is KHDA ,what does it stand for and how does it affect us.

Departmental Action Plan

• He explained about what is departmental action plan with the help of ICT showing detailed table containing the requirements to be included in the action plan. Following points were high lighted :
• It should be innovative
• Curriculum friendly
• should keep an over view of the effectiveness of school improvement strategies.

Lesson Plan

Using ICT what important points to be incorporated into a lesson plan was explained in detail. The high lighted points are the following:

• Should be differentiated
• Child centered
• Mention cross curricular link.
• Innovative and creative
• Hard copy to submit to the inspector
• teaching to be limited to 20 minutes.

Differentiate Lesson objectives

He taught with the example quoting from class VI portion with the title, Earth on solar system . There he mentioned lesson objectives, with differentiated objectives for 1. All the students 2. most of the students and 3. some of the students.

Activity was also included in the lesson plan with differentiation for Low, Middle and High achievers.

Special mention was made on how teaching can be linked with other subjects ( cross curricular links) like History, literature, and then with real life situations and integrations.

Classroom Teaching

Following points were emphasized :

• Start and end the class in time.
• Write learning objectives on the board.
• Keep the printed LP on the table.
• Use ICT
• Make group wise seating arrangement.
• SEND students accommodation
• Use last 20 minutes for assessment.

Important Documents needed

• Departmental action plan
• Minutes of meeting
• UAE Box file containing all documents.
• Lesson plan
• Assessment sheets (like class tests, work sheets, projects , Subject enrichment activities etc)
• Reports on exhibition, field trips, SST club activities etc

Session II

EFFECTIVE WAY IN DELIVERING THE CONTENT,

INCORPORATING ICT IN TEACHING SOCIAL SCIENCE

PART I

EFFECTIVE WAY IN DELIVERING THE CONTENT

The second session was taken by Mr. Akbar Ali,HOD of Social Science , HBT. The session was very informative and useful for SSC teachers as it focused on the use of ICT in teaching social science. Since many of the teachers were unaware of the latest updates in software and other informative applications , the topic was very relevant and most useful for all the teachers who attended it.

The Objectives of the Session

• Achieve advanced ICT skills to teach social science.
• Create interest towards the subject
• Promote activity based teaching
• Promote collaborative learning
• Use effective and innovative method of class room management.

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Due to following reasons:

• If we don't have any other options
• Security
• Open source nature
• Software updates
• Customization
• Free
• Communities

Innovative Learning

Following devices can be used for making teaching process innovative:

• Ytb channel
• Short films
• Documentary
• Blogs
• Exhibition
• Simulations and Animations
• Video lessons
• Wikipedia/ wiki commons
• The above devices were well explained with the help of ICT.

Blooms Taxonomy

• Applying involves using acquired skills like creating, designing, developing codes and wiki.

The above principle was explained with the help of a picture showing Blooms taxonomy. It was focused that the taxonomy to be used effectively in taking the students to higher levels of thinking from application level on wards.

PART II

TEACHING SSC USING IT TOOLS

I. My Maps

• Google-h#ps://www.google.com/my maps
• Creating maps
• Customization
• Collaborative Learning
• Open street Map
• Eg. h#ps://goo.gl/J5Eqew

The above applications and software were explained and demonstrated using ICT to all the teachers. These tools could be used to teach Geography effectively.

• Other tools includes:

Google Slides

• Collaborative preparations
• Group slides
• Instructions – lesson contents
• Ctrl+shift+y= Define
• Ctrl+shift+Alt+1= Explore
• Ctrl+k= Link

The above tools also could be used to define and explore informations regarding any topics related to our subject.

Google URL shortener

• h#ps://goo.gl/
• h#ps://bitly.com/
• Reduce the size of URL
• Easy to share students.

Explained about the use of reducing the size of URL so as to link to the sites can be easily accessible and then shared to the students.

Wikipedia

• Free on line encyclopedia
• 290 languages
• Translations
• h#ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/main-page
• Explained about using wikipedia for getting more informations.

Digital Text Book

• h#p://ncertbooks. Prashanthellina.com/
• PDF files
• PPT

explained using digital text books from on line, making PDF files and preparation of PPT.

POWTOON

• Animated Presentation
• Child friendly
• Vector graphics
• Prezi sway
• h#ps://www.youtube.com/watch?
• V=CB3N4lehrbl

Advanced Application Software

• Marble
• K geography

Explained and shown through the ICT how these software could be installed and used effectively to teach geography to locate places on the globe, find distances between two places. These will supplement taking physical materials like maps, globes inside the class room by the teachers.

Altogether the two sessions were highly informative and useful for the teachers.

Conclusion and Vote thanks

The session was winded up at 1.30pm with concluding remark of Mr.Stanly Lazar, HOD Social science, HBT IIS and vote of thanks by Mrs. Saraswathy, a senior teacher from HBT school.