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Challenges • Students participated eagerly in
the activities. Every day all the
Illiterate Parents and poor socio teams had to present the work
economic background resulted in low given by the teacher.
academic standards of students. • Based on their work either
School Transformation written or oral she allotted the
marks and announced the
Head Mistress K. Ushasree got winners every day.
transferred to this school in 2015. She • This has certainly inspired them
could assess that the students were very
poor in English language like in a lot. All the groups wanted to
formation of short sentences and perform well to win the contest.
pronouncing even small words . This competitive environment
has also helped a lot by forging
So Head Mistress has determined to
find out the causes for the issues and work creativity skills in the students.
out solutions to solve them. • Four years down the line our
students who were even unable
• She has started teaching
alphabets using pictures, she to understand speak or write
introduced new methods and small words but now all of their
techniques in teaching English vocabulary has improved and
Subject. they even started to write simple
sentences with ease.
• Every day she used to draw the
pictures on the blackboard and • To improve vocabulary and
teach alphabets. strike conversations teacher
• Later she introduced sounds of used to give them situation and
alphabets with the help of her made them to do role-plays. She
mobile. She made it easy to has even linked up everyday
pronounce the words and scenarios to improve their
recognize the pictures. speaking skill.
• Whereas for the students of 3, • Teacher has improved students
4 and 5 teacher has introduced letter and word pronunciation
activity based learning. by introducing phonetics.
• Every day she divided children Regular practice and
into teams and gave them the pronunciation has yielded good
activity based on the lesson she results.
taught.
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