Pause4KgEducation Volume 3 - AminuwritesTv

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Date: Monday 28th June, 2021 - Sunday July 4, 2021.  

Volume: 003

In this Edition,

Simple Steps to Teach Grammar.

Sound of the Week.

OUTDOOR/INDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK.

SOCIAL SKILLS FOR THE WEEK

THE EDITORIAL. 

Simple Steps to Teach Grammar

There are various ways of teaching Grammar. In this piece you shall identify simple, practical and effective method of teaching Grammar. 

Teaching English sometimes poses challenges to Facilitators. But, "Using Dialogue" is  a simple but practical method of teaching English Grammar. 

Dialogue is a teaching Techniques which allows learners to communicate between and among themselves using short sentences. 

Language is best understood when used in Communication. 

Let us look at the examples below: 

Ama: Hi!

Kwame: Hello!

Ama: It's been a while.

Kwame: Yes my sister. I am just on my way to the market. 

Ama: Ee! What for?

Kwame: I am going to buy fish, meat, tomatoes, pepper, onion, garden eggs, palm  nut, ......

Ama: It is seems your Mum will be cooking Palm Nut Soup and Fufu. 

Kwame: Hahahaha

The teacher used the above dialogue to introduce and explain 'Comma'.

Use the information from the Dialogue to teach the Aspect of the Language you want to teach. 

You can try creating and using dialogue to teach Grammar in your schools and lessons.

Sound of the Week

In our last Edition we looked at /S/ and /a/ sounds.

Let us revise these sounds....

/s/ 

Sammy

Samuel

Samai

Savanna

Sabina

Sandra

Sumsum

/a/

as

at

am

Asante

Ama

Afi

Abena

Asana

Today's Sound would focus on /p/.

Examples of words which contains the sound /p/

Pat

Pin

Path

Pen

Pencil

Pant

Pass

Put

Plate

Play

OUTDOOR/INDOOR ACTIVITIES

Our Indoor / Outdoor Activity for the Week 

Bottle Filling. 

Materials: Water, Bottles, Stop Watch

How?

Place the Bottles on the table.

Call out children to fill the bottles. Record the time each child finished filling the bottles. 

The child with the least time is declared the Winner. 

SOCIAL SKILLS FOR THE WEEK

How to Lay Bed?

Materials: 

Matress/Mat

Bedsheet/Cloth

Pillow

Pillow Case

How?

First help learners to put the pillow into the Pillow Case.

Help learners to lay the bed using the Bedsheet or Cloth. 

THE EDITORIAL

The Skills we Neglect.

Most people have the opinion that schools should not be blamed when children are not able to perform simple social skills.

They believe that since school prepare learners for life, then skills such as washing, cooking, bathing, brushing of teeth, etc.

Fortunately, most of these social skills have been included in the Curriculum.

Facilitators should as much as possible look for other social skills which have not been included in the Curriculum, and include them in their Schools Curriculum.

School Administrators/Headteachers should also make it a point to ensure that Facilitators do not neglect the responsibility of teaching children certain Social Skills.

 

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INDOOR/OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

The Indoor/Outdoor Activities for the Week

Topic: Face Painting.

Materials: 
Poster Colours
Brush
Water

How to?
Use the brush and the colours and help learners to creatively paint their face. 
You can vary the drawings and the colours.

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 INDOOR/OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Candle Wax Drawing

Material Needed :

Candle 

Poster Colours/Clay 

A4 Sheets 

How to Play?

Draw anything using the Candle. 

Pour the Poster Colours on the Sheet. Leave it to dry. 

This will reveal what the Child has drawn.

Alternatively, you can dip the A4 Sheets in the Clay Solution and remove it. 

Leave it to dry. 

Pause4KgEducation volume 001

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Weekly Ezine. 

VOLUME 001

DATE: MONDAY 14th June - SUNDAY 20th June, 2021. 

In this Edition,

How to Stop Yelling In the Classroom?

Letter of the Week.

Indoor/Outdoor Activities of the Week.

The Editorial.

How to Stop Yelling In the Classroom?

Most teachers resort to yelling or shouting in the classroom whenever they find their learners uncontrollable. 

Yelling in the classroom is another means by which educators used to ......

Read more here https://bit.ly/3xgTmcM

LETTER OF THE WEEK

Our sound for the week is  /S/. 

Story with the Sound.

Sammy sought permission to sell his  Cylinder to Sampson. 

Example of words which begins with the sound...

Sumsum

Samai

Samuel

Sulley

Sika

Sackey

Sakora

Safoa 

Samira

Sentence

Selfie

INDOOR/OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR THE WEEK

Candle Wax Drawing

Material Needed :

Candle 

Poster Colours/Clay 

A4 Sheets 

How to Play?

Draw anything using the Candle. 

Pour the Poster Colours on the Sheet. Leave it to dry. 

This will reveal what the Child has drawn.

Alternatively, you can dip the A4 Sheets in the Clay Solution and remove it. 

Leave it to dry. 

THE EDITORIAL.

Teaching at the KG is both interesting and stressful. Interesting when you love the job, but stressful when you were 'dumped' there. 

Research has shown that most of the Facilitators in most of our KGs where sent there Not because they love the KG but because 'that was where their services were needed'.

Teaching at the KG cannot be compared with any level in the Academic System. The KG teacher is the master of all. 

You are expected to teach everything on the Time Table.You are also required to teach the children Inter - personal skills, manners and etiquettes, etc. 

You are not a KG teacher if you come to school well dressed and go back in the same form. 

Teaching at the KG is indeed interesting and stressful. Let us, respect the KG Facilitator.

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WeeklyEzine. 

VOLUME 002
DATE: MONDAY 21sth June - SUNDAY 27th June, 2021.

In this Edition,

How to Teach Collaborative Skills in learners?
Sound of the Week.
Indoor/Outdoor Activities of the Week
Lesson Plan for the Week.
The Editorial.

HOW TO TEACH COLLABORATIVE SKILLS IN LEARNERS.
How to teach Collaboration as a skill?

But What is Collaboration or Collaborative Skills?

Collaboration skills , also called collaborative skills, are the skills you use when working with others to produce or create something or achieve a common goal. Collaboration skills aren't a skill set in themselves, but rather a group of different soft skills and behaviours that facilitate collaboration and teamwork.

Collaboration is one of the chief skills or competencies that every Ghanaian child should posses after completing the Standard Based Curriculum.

Collaboration is also a 21st Century Skills which every Child or Adult must possess.

There are several ways we can teach Collaboration Skills among our learners. Below are just few steps you can take to build Collaboration Skills among learners.

Please follow this link to continue reading....
How to teach Collaboration Skills?

SOUND OF THE WEEK

The Sound of the Week is /a/
Revision:
In our last edition, we talked about the sound /S/.

Examples of words which has the Sound /S/ includes:
Samai
Sammy
Samuel
Sumsum
Sister
Serial
Sought
Salt
Sat
Sit
Sip
Seen
Sea
See
Seam
Stem
Start
Smart

Exercise 001
Write the list of 10 CVC Words or Sight which has the sound /S/ and paste it in your classroom.
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The Sound of the Week is /a/ .

Here is a Story with the Sound.

Aba and Afi saw an ant in their hut. The ant was so big. Aba screamed. But, Afi decided to kill the ant.

Examples of words which has the sound /a/

Ant
Assan
Allah
Abass
Assist
Accept
Axe
Ask
And

INDOOR/OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
The Indoor/Outdoor Activities for the Week.

Topic: Face Painting.

Materials:
Poster Colours
Brush
Water

How to?
Use the brush and the colours and help learners to creatively paint their face.
You can vary the drawings and the colours.

THE EDITORIAL

Time to Ease the Tension.

The KG department is the most hit department in the implementation of the Standard Based Curriculum.

Whiles all others including the KG are crying for the lack of resources to implement the programme, the KG Facilitator is handicapped in this entire exercise.

This challenge may be blamed on the implementors of the Curriculum.
Unlike the primary school, the KGs are to teach all the disciplines in an amalgamated form.

As a matter of urgency, the various training officers, NaCCA, MOE and the GES to organise refresher courses for all KG Facilitators.
In addition, all the materials needed to teach at the KG should be supplied to all schools.
It is only this, that can guarantee a better future for our education and Future Leaders.

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How to teach Collaboration Skills in learners? - AminuwritesTv

How to teach Collaboration as a skill?

But,  What is Collaboration or Collaborative Skills?

Collaboration skills , also called collaborative skills, are the skills you use when working with others to produce or create something or achieve a common goal. Collaboration skills aren't a skill set in themselves, but rather a group of different soft skills and behaviours that facilitate collaboration and teamwork.

Collaboration is one of the chief skills or competencies that every Ghanaian child should posses after completing the Standard Based Curriculum.

Collaboration is also a 21st Century Skills which every Child or Adult must possess.

There are several ways we can teach Collaboration Skills among our learners. Below are just few steps you can take to build Collaboration Skills among learners.

Give Group Exercise/Assignments
1. Always Give Group Exercise or Assignment.
Encourage your learners to always work in groups. Every exercise or assignment you give to learners should be carried out in groups.
Ensure that every learner participates in the Exercise or Assignment.

Group Engineered Assignments
2. Give Assignment or Exercise that forces Group Activities.
Also, give learners exercises or assignment that might force them to include every member of the group when carrying out the assignment.
Our questions be crafted in such a way that it makes it difficult for a learner to work alone.
Our questions should be capable of ensuring that every member of the class gets something to do.
For instance instead of asking learners to answer questions which only focuses or Understanding, we may craft our questions to test the application of knowledge.

For example in the questions below...

1. What is energy?
2. Give two examples of energy forms.

We can easily rewrite the questions to encourage every learner in the class to participate.

So in the above example the questions may be reframed in the following manner.

1. Describe how energy is important in carrying out work.
2. How will you describe the different forms of energy to your friend.

Accept Collaborative Answers
3. Always Accept Answers or Assignments from learners who worked collaboratedly.
In class, any questions or assignment you give, ensure that all learners participate in arriving at the answers.

Why Should You Teach Collaborative Skills?
Every Ghanaian child is expected to learn and practice Collaborative Skills.

The world today  basically operates on Collaboration.

No country or nation can exist independently without the support of others. Even the most advanced countries collaborate with other countries in one form or the other. 

Teaching Collaboration Skills is a unique opportunity to provide learners with one of the most important and a necessary skills for human existence.

Also, when Collaboration Skills is developed among learners then we stand the chance of developing other important Soft Skills such as

1. Communication Skills
2. Leadership Skills
3. Team work Skills
4. Conflict Resolution Skills
5. Flexibility/Adaptability Skills
6. Problem Solving Skills
7. Negotiation Skills
8. Networking Skills
9. Stress Management Skills
10. Creativity & Innovative Skills
11. Time Management Skills
12. Decision Making Skills
13. Influencing/Persuasion Skills

How To Stop Yelling in the Classroom? - AminuwritesTv

I must confess. 

As a teacher, there was no day I don't yell or shout in the classroom. Sometimes, to prevent this situation, I will resort to the Cane. 

And as a parent, hmmmm. Ugh! I can't count.
There are several educators and parents who find it difficult to control their children and hence result to yelling, the use of the cane or in some extreme situation insults.
Children would forever remain complex beings we would have to deal with as educators.

Michael Linsin explains: “When you yell, you train your students to listen to you only when you raise your voice. In other words, they learn that unless you’re shouting, you must not really mean it.” 

Yelling is the chief tool that most desperate educators or parents adopt to control children.

Yelling is a costly mistake.

Here is how...

1. Yelling is a Temporal solution to a permanent situation.
Children will only listen to you when you yell.  They will always create a situation for you to yell.

2. Yelling begets more yelling.
As you try to yell to control your classroom, you will have to yell over and over again. The children will also yell and create avenues for you to yell since they've seen it is your Habit.

3. Children emulate parents or teachers who yell.
You may be yelling probably because your parents or teachers may have yelled at you.
You don't want to teach your children bad habits.

4. Yelling may increase your chances of getting hypertension or some related health condition.
Research has shown that most people who yell or shout have high chances of becoming hypertensive.

5. Yelling increases the rate of anger.
Continuous yelling would increase the rate of anger in you.
It may lead you to do what you wished you would not do under normal circumstances.

But, in this 21st Century, yelling and shouting do not get result in the classroom. There are Creative Techniques every Educator can use to prevent shouting or yelling in the classroom.

1. The use of Signals.
Creative Educators use signals to prevent yelling in the classroom. There several creative Signalling Techniques you can use as an educator. 

Here are some Simple but Creative Signalling Techniques.

1. Repeating of Words or Sentences.
2. Clapping
3. Shaking the Signal (A bottle containing gravels or sand)
4. Quick Silence

2. Setting Classroom Rules
With the help of the learners, design and set effective Classroom Rules. These Rules should be simple. The Facilitator must rehearse the Rules with Learners every day. The Facilitator must also obey these Rules.
The Rules should be placed where every learner would see it without any difficulty.

3. Teach with Teaching & Learning Resources.
Teaching with Resources is a Creative way of minimizing Disruptive behaviours in the classroom.
We must always use TLRs during our teaching bad learning process. Most of the disruptive behaviours in the classroom is as a results of the inability of the learners to understand or comprehend what is being taught in the classroom.

4. Give learners Activities to Perform
Always provide learners with creative activities to perform. These activities should aim at developing certain desirable competencies such collaboration, communication, etc in learners.

Yelling, shouting or nagging has No Place in the 21st Century Classroom. Stop it before it Stops you.
Use Creative Techniques in dealing with today's Classroom Challenges.

Truthfully, in Creative Environment no one should ever yell, yelling is a verbal act of aggression. Aggression and/or violence is the product of an exhausted mind, and its a dead end in regards to productivity.

Don't ever yell or shout because when you yell as a consequence for a behavior, you are either reinforcing or creating an avenue for your learners or children to continue with their behaviour.

By Mohammed Aminu Mohammed,

(Coach, Trainer, Mentor).

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