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In an effort to upgrade and enhance the teaching skills of English Language teachers, Akal Academy Kajri Niranjanpur under the auspices of Kalgidhar Education Trust, Baru Sahib organized “Two Days Teachers’ Workshop on English Language Skill Development” on 4th and 5th December, 2015 About 40 English Language teachers of Primary wing from Academies of U.P. […]

In an effort to upgrade and enhance the teaching skills of English Language teachers, Akal Academy Kajri Niranjanpur under the auspices of Kalgidhar Education Trust, Baru Sahib organized “Two Days Teachers’ Workshop on English Language Skill Development” on 4th and 5th December, 2015 About 40 English Language teachers of Primary wing from Academies of U.P. region participated. The workshop was sponsored by Scholastic Publications, New Delhi. Ms. Sreerupa Sil was the resource person in the workshop.

At the very outset, participants, faculty guests, resource person were welcomed by the host Principal, Akal Academy Kajri, Mrs. Simran Kaur Thind. Later all the participants were briefly instructed by Mr. Ashok Singh Guleria HOD English/Head Coordinator and necessary details were given regarding workout schedule of the workshop.

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Session I
Session I of the workshop began at 9.00 am. First of all participants were made to introduce themselves through an activity.., “KNOW YOUR GROUP.”Meanwhile discussion on the problems of children in language learning such as shyness, lack of confidence, poor handwriting, was discussed. Teachers too narrated their own experiences of teaching–learning problems. The resource person very efficiently suggested possible solutions to these problems. In the first Session “Grammar Skill Development “tips were given to the teachers. The resource person through many innovational and fun activities gave simplest and easiest methods to teach grammar in primary classes..She stressed upon he need of teaching grammar using “Know, Apply and Correct method.

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SessionII

Session II of the workshop began after short tea-break. The session was devoted to Common Problems in Teaching Grammar “In this session Ms. Sreerupa asked the teachers to teaching grammar following Activate, Engage, Extend, Execute, Evaluate steps. At the very outset, group wise topics were given and teachers were made to express fluently randomly. without pause. A drill on framing questions answers was done. Teachers were asked to frame sentences using, what, why, when, who, whose, whom and How. In this session teachers’ queries regarding Nouns, Pronouns, verbs, preposition use deficiencies were addressed. Lastly the individual problems of the teachers in their respective classes were taken for discussion.

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