Teachers often face challenges in teaching in their day-to-day practice. These teaching experiences make teachers very efficient in their classroom teaching and also learning.
I had an experience of teaching as a teacher for 12 years. But I had faced lots of challenges, problems yearly in my classroom. At the same time, I learned from these challenges and issues and exploring the same with my school children.
At present, I am a class teacher for IV standard students and these were the same students for whom I had taught when they were I std too. Hence I am gifted to know about the progression of their learning abilities and various other skills over the years. I practiced and followed the pictorial method of teaching and learning in my classroom for language teaching. So, I thought of different ways of teaching the children so that they understand and learn.
One such way was to relate any commonly used words like sun, moon, tree, etc. to their pictures. Every week, I give the student a task of reading at least ten words both in English and Tamil and the student has to show the corresponding pictures of the used words in the picture given. By the end of I std, the student would read and understand, also draws almost 1000 words.
In the next year, the student could confidently read sentences relating various pictorial representations to the context given. This way all the students could read and understand. I can proudly say in my class, out of 30 children 27 children can read and understand very well and the other 3 children also can read but at a slower pace.
And now I improvised this picture method to the pictorial story method. It became a successful one and I learned so much from my student also. Each and every student in my class are capable of writing stories of their own with pictures and this process continues and I keep on learning.
"Classroom is the foundation. The real construction is done in a quiet room where we school ourselves. Learning has no end...It never stops."
