Educating Effectively

The English language has seen greater importance in regards to enabling students to discover more and do better in their lives.

Language arts incorporate several areas of learning, such as reading, writing, and speaking, to improve students’ understanding of and ability to use written and spoken language. There are six components in language arts: reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visual representation.

Traditional teaching methods included lectures where instructors prepared materials to deliver in the classroom, students listened and took note of the lecturers’ guided instructions and homework was assigned to demonstrate their understanding which they reiterated upon inquiry.

Along with it, the Latest trend in Effective Education can be achieved through smart Copy Correction Strategies in Progressive Teaching such as Peer editing, group workshops, parental assistance and teacher-student discussion along with clear guidelines and expectations we provide feedback through Smiley, Grading, Positive appreciations,  Symbols, Comments.

Some of the relevant teaching pedagogies trends that satisfy the multiple intelligences of the learners are CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), Blended Learning, E-Learning, Task-based and Situated Language Learning and Teaching, Flipped Classroom Techniques and Edutainment with the help of the Internet and other technologies in the classroom. 

New methods for teaching English as a second language

The activities we felicitate the students to achieve goals are discussed below:

• The integration of technology

The incorporation of technology has emerged as a prominent transformation in the field of ESL instruction. The use of tablets, computers, ICT Boards has been an eminent requirement of an educational system which Rajarshi Gurukul has been adopting for the convenience of students’ learning process.

• Online and Blended Learning. 

Online and blended learning have become increasingly popular in English language teaching (ELT) due to their flexibility and accessibility. We not only instruct students through board markers and board, we value the learners’ aptitude to comprehend through online resources such as quizzes, journals, animation videos, etc.

• Virtual Reality. 

It’s a pleasure for the learners to experience Virtual reality (VR) because it is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and poses tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.

• Mediation.

Taking information, summarising it, and passing it on is an example of what linguists call mediation, and it is a key skill for language learners at all levels. At RG students love reflecting on the subject matter they are learning.

• Life Skills. 

Social media has been an influential domain of the lifestyle of the new generation. An infant shall at any time show a grim on their face as soon as the gadget is removed from their vision. In this regard, teaching social disciplines such as family relationships, guest receiving etiquette, environmental cognition, service to humanity and cultural ethics have been vanquished abruptly. To replenish such gaps, RG has rendered her service through a social service club and a moral value club.

• Green English language teaching. 

Rajarshi Gukurul introduces quick and easy green routines into the lessons, teaches students in and with nature, sets students fun, environmental projects, focuses more lessons on environmental topics (with these pre-made materials), turns the existing materials green using picturebooks for environmental engagement, includes green topics in lessons for lower level learners, embeds environmentalism across the school and organizes environmental teacher training and development programs.

For obtaining green English language teaching, RG takes the usual classroom activities outside, goes litter picking, practices comparisons and descriptive language with trees and plants, listens to a nature meditation then writes their own, does outdoor learning activities with young children, organises a ​nature photography lesson or outdoor drawing, plays ​environmental games and activities with young learners, makes bird feeders, sundials or shadow clock, goes on a mini-beasts safari or pond dipping (being careful not to harm any beasts!), visits environmental exhibitions or the local recycling facility, takes trips into the countryside and do urban nature walks. 

• Content-Based Instruction (CBI): 

LRC is a Library centre for resources of various genres focusing on science, fiction, fantasy, dictionaries, art and anatomical explorations. For pursuing CBI, RG helps students learn a new skill (yoga, origami, preparing food), study a historical event (invention of the aeroplane, World War II, the World’s Fair), study a country of geographic region, discuss what students did over the weekend and tell stories.

• Task-Based Learning (TBL): 

Task-Based Learning (TBL) is also known as Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and Task-Based Instruction (TBI). RG focuses on the completion of meaningful tasks which include creating a poster, producing a newsletter, video, or pamphlet, or designing a map of the school or neighbourhood. Instructors first provide standard pre-task activities to engage the students, during the task, students take the task, plan and present which ends in inaccurate reviews.

• Flipped Classrooms: 

Instructors record and share lectures outside the class, and students watch/listen to the lectures before coming to the class. Class time is devoted to applied learning activities and higher-order thinking tasks. Students receive support from instructors and peers as needed.

• Cultural Immersion

RG students are taken to interact with the foreigners and local village communities for the cultural Immersion which means integrating themselves into another culture, interacting with locals and understanding the way others live.

Students develop holistic development, enjoying the course of studies through various pedagogies including singing and playing musical instruments, running and jumping, reading and writing blended with listening to the lectures. Hope it is useful!

-Hari Krishna Hamo

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