TEACHING, LEARNING AND EVALUATION

TEACHING METHODS AND AIDS USED: 

1. Chalk and Talk
2. Lecture Method along with ICT Tools
3. Group-based teaching-learning (Groups divided according to 6 mentor-mentee groups)
4. PPT presentations by students. The students give demonstrations and present their ideas and interact on the given topic. Students are asked to make PPTs on various aspects of English literature. While teaching the Anglo-Saxon period, a thorough audio-visual presentation of their route, their journey across the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, was clearly presented to the students. It was noticed that Audio-Visual effects leave a greater impact on the minds of the students than sterile deliberation. In discussions of Paradise Lost, a combined study of certain poetic passages with artistic presentation of characters like Eve and Virgin Mary was made to graphically demonstrate certain important points regarding the evolution of these characters.

INNOVATIVE  STRATEGIES

1. Peer evaluation method is used to assess the class. The students assessed each other’s performance.
2. Personalized Learning
3. Innovative strategies like Group discussions, quiz sessions, storytelling sessions are organized to make learning fun. Group-based projects (like creative writing sessions where group wrote and performed essays and poems, real blog making for online presentations, and performative sessions while reading plays or treatise on performing arts) were assigned to students.

Screening of Films:

Screening of films of Shakespeare‟s Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Rowling‟s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer‟s Stone and Hemingway‟s The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Audio recordings of Shakespeare‟s Macbeth as well as full length videos of theatre productions of Macbeth were provided to students. By comparing the different stage productions and the films on Macbeth, students could get an idea of Shakespeare‟s play as it was performed in his own time as well as in subsequent ages. A virtual tour of the Warner Bros Studio in London which houses a permanent exhibit of authentic costumes, props and sets utilized in the production of the Harry Potter films, as well as behind-the-scenes production of visual effects through sharing of personal collection of images and videos by the concerned teacher in DGC- English enabled students to get a grip on children’s literature.

 

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Department’s Initiatives for Assessing Learning Levels of Students and address

• Using classroom assessment techniques
• Effective Mentor-Mentee Interactions
• Flipped classroom (students engage in content making and delivering in the classroom)
• Special Classes for Slow Learners

Parent-Teacher Meetings

• Culturally responsive teaching to enquire for the invisible identities in history from assigned syllabus: For example, 3rd semester students were encouraged to brood on “Where are the Women in the 1789 French Revolution?” as a part of Romantic Literature.

• Doubt Clearing Sessions
• Feedback of student participants are taken after implementing unique collaborative learning methodologies.
• Feedback taken during parent teacher meetings

• Slow learners are identified, and they are given special care and attention. They are arranged in small groups and engaged in group activities to improve the knowledge of the subject with the intention of helping them catch up with their peers.
• Personal Counselling
• Encouragement given to advanced learners to utilize the web learning resources and make use of different computer technologies for research and study.

Modes of Internal Assessment

• Regular Class Tests
• Quizzes
• Projects and Assignments
• Peer Evaluation Method