How to make students do effective class work ? - By Uttam Chatterjee

ACTIVITIES	DO'S	DON'TS
SETTING UP ENVIRONMENT/ GIVING A START	Enter into the class with lots of energy and greet the class or thank if children greets earlier.	Don't avoid the greetings by saying ok, ok sit down. Say - Please take your sit.
SETTING UP GREEN BOARD   [1 - 2 minutes]	Write the complete topics/sub topics name of the top of the green board with date. Turn back to the class.	Don't start the content delivery before interacting about previous days class work and home work by methods like raising hand or quick round in the class.
SETTING UP STUDENTS DESK [5-7 minutes]	Take a quick round to see text book and class work note book is open, if student used rough note book then also see that class work note book is updated, it will take 5 minutes initially till habit is formed.	Don't avoid any case in which student not ready with note book, text book or writing materials. Take serious note of it and follow up with the student and parents also if required about bag packing.
INTRODUCTION	Discuss relevance of the topic by telling student WHY TO STUDY THE TOPIC , WHAT TO STUDY AND EXAMINERS FAVOURITE QUESTIONS ( A FEW EXAMPLES), WHICH CHILD WILL BE ABLE TO DO AFTER COMPLETION OF THE CHAPTER.	Don't let the time get wasted much in settling the class and addressing individual petty issues, discourage complaint resolution in class, take note of irrelevant question and promise to answer later and go ahead with content delivery. Don't digress from the focus.
RECAPITULATION	Write the Key Words required to understand the chapter in the beginning , After little progress of the chapter keep asking oral questions related to keywords so that students revise and repeat to recall.	Don't digress from the chapter and subtopics. Don't Skip any topic.
EXPLANATION	Relate the topic to be explained with surroundings and interesting examples which students can relate.	Don't move on to the next topic until the highlights and written notes of the explanation is not noted down by students.
USE QUESTIONING SKILLS	Use questions which students can understand and write the the question on the green board with proper grammar, spelling and punctuation and proper question tag. Use close ended questions.	Don't make students write the answer in fair note book untill the most correct prompt is not identified or correct answer is not written on the green board.
SOME EXAMPLE OF THE QUESTIONS USED TO EXPLAIN OR PROVOKE LEARNING ARE:	Sequential concept building questions using What, Why, When, Where, distinguish between, calculate, give reasons, cite example, fill in the blanks, choose the write option/word, Match the columns, High order of thinking based questions, magic based on the concept, tongue twister, role play, read aloud and explain, draw, level the diagram.	Don't give open ended questions during explanation because different contradictory view may crop up.
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING	Worksheet solving, making laboratory journals, wiriting featured reports, extraploting a role in a story and drama, extracting concepts of grammar in the story to be read.	Don't give directionless instructions in assessment task like remember page number _____, topic _____. What to perform, has to be clarified.
Project Assignment or Written Home Work	Written H.W has to be done in school during home work period due to demographic reasons, except in case of Mathematics, Project Assignment Should be simpe and cheap but impactful.	Don't ask for any home work or project assignment in which parents or outsiders involve or invest ans students would need to go to each other's home or raise fund.
Closure / Summary of the Chapter	Provide study material for challenlising the effort towards good performance in the upcoming tests and examinations. The Individual study materials later can be compiled quarterly, half yearly and annually.	Don't plagarise any content by directly copying and pasting but use santised and originally produced material by yourself for your students as per the class work, Home work , CET and pattern examination.
Conduct of  CHAPTER END TEST (DURING ONE OF THE REMEDIAL PERIODS)	Communicate about the portion, pattern of questions, date, time and full marks of the CET before the start of the chapter as per the log book.	Don't accommodate more than one CET or Conduct CET before completing the chapter by all norms.
Remedial and Reteaching (Special Periods allocated)	Identify the areas of improvement based on CET and prepare a teaching plan for reteaching during the remedial period. Separate SOP is available for action planning of remedial.	Don't get disheartened if expected learning outcome is not seen in CET, it is bound to be achieved after the holistic academic process SOP followed.