Wednesday, 25 February 2015

USING MY STRENGTHS IN MY TEACHING

In the questionaire about the intelligences
my score was as follows;
Linguistic =58%
Logical Mathematical=63%
Visual Spatial=58%
Intra Peronal =94%
Interpersonal = 69%
Musical =31%
Bodily Kinesthetic =50%
nutralistic -%

most of the above hold of me and i appreciate the software developers.

 I can check the student's mix of intelligences by using RPL-recognition of prior learning, this will help me to predict his hand writing, approach to questions that are more of common sense, technical and social ones.
most students presume their willingness to learn by the first approach to those questions, be it oral  or written, also their preparations to the pretest, i mean even the dressing code on that day will tell their inward characters to a large extent those who love music like plaiting their hair as men and tinting nalis and long funny bags. 

some good mannered students respond positively and their dress code is recommendable.

By way of making sure i using this " teaching"  to my daily experience, 
I provide change of procedure rather than change of content. By so doing all the learners will get the concept very well as we all proceed to the next level as a class.

Secondly students that need more  experience with the concept need to receive the feedback that is paired with correct set of activities which offer guidance on and duration on how the remedy to their challenge will be handled. I personally have found this approach very much okay with trainees.
" this is where you went wrong and then how about if you try the following steps, list them with the trainee and set him/her  again and provide him constant support to achieve his project"
The unique mix of intelligence also have enlightened me that some students excel even beyond the reach of the curriculum while other students are just struggling to get bits of it. what is important is to make sure that the teaching strategies fit the entire class, if they all get the concept easily well there would be no need to offer them extension.

The type of questions i ask  in class also will monitor their awareness and morale in the lesson, call these trainees by name, give interesting  and worthwhile assignments for independent practice, yet still easy enough
to be completed without my direction.

More so checking the implementation of my delivery methods after a time.
 In most cases i have found out that students from high school join vocational training when they are used to theory and story lessons,
when i introduce demonstration method i get separate classes, the lazy one hates the whole thing, and the ambitious one want to begin before i finish demonstration, while others don't know how to  work with others because  at their high school they were competing and now at Vocational Training it is professionalism and no competition, they must develop the project, learn to team up because the construction site can not be done by an individual, so their attitudes quite vary at the start of Vocational Training.

What i have learnt from the intelligences exposure is that all trainees join the Vocational Training with different abilities ranging from sports, singing and drama, games, other hobbies like looking after animals while others want to start businesses there and then.

AMIDST this class of different abilities, I HAVE TO PROVIDE A ROOM FOR OCCUPATION/TRADE KNOWLEDGE- THE CORE COURSE. Therefore, i look forward to direct different talents to where they suit, interestingly am In charge of sports and Games here and have found good interaction with most of the trainees and have gone with them to national championship for three years now. some boys score many goals but when it comes to class they struggle to achieve  minimum pass, so their talent should not die off however they must take them simultaneously. this therefore is upon the team work of teachers and managers to step up co-curricular activities.

This morning 25th of February 2015, i was facilitating a session in orientation for the new entrants at Nakawa Vocational Training Institute on matters pertaining to how trainees can manage their sexuality and perfect goal setting,
Some of the trainees expectations are far ahead that what i actually thought, they are looking forward to join international technical expos, become pilots and great engineering men and women, while others were saying they only want to know how install water in buildings and repair vehicles.

CCTI has empowered me with the ability to help the trainee to keep his or her dream at the back of both of us so that this trainee will achieve it and by so doing i have achieved mine as a teacher.
I really treasure everything in this module.
I submit

 

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