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Enhancing Teacher Collaboration for Student Engagement

This document discusses reflections from a new teacher about challenges they face and lessons learned from attending a School Learning Action Cell. Some of the challenges discussed include students' lack of interest or motivation. The teacher realized through the SLAC that connecting lessons to students' personal interests and building positive relationships can help increase motivation. Attending the SLAC helped the teacher strengthen their weaknesses by learning from other teachers experiencing similar difficulties. They recognized the importance of teamwork and finding solutions to challenges in the classroom.

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Enhancing Teacher Collaboration for Student Engagement

This document discusses reflections from a new teacher about challenges they face and lessons learned from attending a School Learning Action Cell. Some of the challenges discussed include students' lack of interest or motivation. The teacher realized through the SLAC that connecting lessons to students' personal interests and building positive relationships can help increase motivation. Attending the SLAC helped the teacher strengthen their weaknesses by learning from other teachers experiencing similar difficulties. They recognized the importance of teamwork and finding solutions to challenges in the classroom.

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Reflections

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where

they sprang up." – Oliver Wendell Holmes

A School Learning Action Cell is conducted by ANHS teachers to solve the

difficulties encountered by them in school and the possible interventions to be made. Such

problems or difficulties include lack of materials, comprehension level of the students, and

students’ lack of interest or motivation, poor classroom setting, large class size, abseentism

and many more. Those challenges are not only encountered by one but almost encountered by

all. Now, these kind of problems in the classroom or in the school in general could impend

the whole educational process and so addressing these problems can help improve teachers’

efficiency and the overall quality of education in our school.

For a beginning teacher like me, it is really hard for me to design appropriate

interventions for these difficulties. And so while I was listening to the presenters and reactors,

I realized that I still have a lot to learn. For example, one of my biggest challenges is

student’s lack of interest or motivation. I have noticed that not all students are interested to

listen. Somehow, I am quite affected by how these students behave and perform in my class

despite of my effort to discuss and teach. One possible intervention I have learned from the

SLAC is connecting the subject to students’ personal interest. A certain subject cannot be

enjoyed unless a student doesn’t know the essence of learning it. Students who are

unmotivated often want to know, “why do we have to do these?” When students do not see

why they have to learn a topic, this impacts their motivation and retention. With this

observation, I need to start teaching particular topic with the related examples in real life

situations which enable them to understand the real need of learning it that may diffuse fear

of learning. And also I have to build a positive relationship with my students. If I have a
strong on-going connection with them, they will more likely to feel positively about the

school. That is when they will start to care when they believe that other people care about

them. By simply holding morning greetings, that already means a lot to them.

I think the challenge to us teachers relies not on how we can make each subject easy

to learn but on how we can make our students love the challenge that each subject presents.

These are only some of the realizations I have made during the SLAC. Through SLAC, it

enables new teachers like me to strengthen and improve my weakness in order to meet the

needs of the learners. With the help of other teachers, I can go through the difficulties I am

encountering. Teamwork is the key. Also, for every difficulty/problem/challenge there is

always a solution. We just need to find what is the best solution to that

difficulty/problem/challenge. Because if we do not act, it will remain a problem.

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