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| + | '''Objective''' |
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| + | For Facilitator: |
| + | * Well-being check-in with learners |
| + | * To make learners feel heard, valued and connected. |
| + | * To improve communication between the Facilitator and the learners |
| + | '''Children’s time on task''' |
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| + | 35 - 45 minutes session |
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| + | '''Duration of task/activity/lesson''' |
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| + | 1 day - 1 session |
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| + | '''Your Preparation for the Task:''' |
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| + | Draw and make cut-outs of the 5 sense organs as shown in the image below |
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| + | [[File:Five senses.png|frameless]] |
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| + | Further, you can colour and stick them on your 5 fingers(or ice-cream sticks/pens/pencils/rulers/sticks) as finger puppets. |
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| + | '''What preparation/material/device would CHILDREN need for this task?''' |
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| + | -Access to WhatsApp/Google Meet |
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| + | -A journal and basic stationery'','' a pair of scissors, glue/tape, colours. |
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| + | ''Inform students prior.'' |
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| + | '''Instruction you will send out ('''write a crisp instruction''')''' |
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| + | Start a general conversation with students. You can pick 1 -2 questions from the list below |
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| + | '''List of trigger Questions:''' |
| + | * How did you feel when I shared that we will be having a class today? |
| + | * How have you been? |
| + | * What was the best part of your day today and why? |
| + | Begin by sharing your response to the questions you choose and then ask students to share. This enables creation of a comfortable and safe space for students to express their feelings and emotions. |
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| + | '''Note''' : Give students the option to share their response with you privately (on personal message) if they are not comfortable sharing in the group. |
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| + | Step 2 |
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| + | Tell children that they will be doing an activity now. |
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| + | Show your finger puppets to children (through image on WhatsApp/showing on GM/Zoom) and ask them to make 2 (or more ) finger puppets based on which questions they would like to reflect upon and share. Alternately, students can choose to simply write their thoughts down with/without making a puppet. |
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| + | Once they are ready ask them to share their answers to the corresponding sense questions given below - |
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| + | In the past 1 month |
| + | # What have they heard? (if they select Ear) |
| + | # What have they seen? (if they select Eyes) |
| + | # How/what did they feel? (if they select Hand) |
| + | # What did they taste(food)?/ How did the month taste? (if they select mouth) |
| + | (overall what kind of feeling do they have for the month e.g, it tasted like bitter gourd (karela | bitter) or honey (sweet), or biryani (spicy and hot), or ice-cream (cool), or a salad (mixed feelings) etc) |
| + | # What did they smell? (if they select Nose) |
| + | (e.g, they smelled medicines, or freshness due to rains, or smoke (choking), or like flowers (pleasant) etc) |
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| + | ''Suggestion : Write down these questions in a PPT slide and screen share during the meeting or send a screenshot of it in the WhatsApp group.'' |
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| + | '''Phase 2: During the task''' |
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| + | '''Trigger / prompts to support children''' |
| + | * Our lives have changed in some ways since the lockdown happened. Can you think of ways in which the lockdown/Covid-19 has changed our lives? |
| + | * What do you think about the present situation in our city/village/state (regarding pandemic and lockdown). |
| + | '''Phase 3 – After the task is over''' |
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| + | '''How do you plan to close the task?''' |
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| + | Thank students for their honest sharing. Acknowledge their feelings and end on a positive note. Tell them about the next class and convey thanks to the parents for letting their children use mobile phones to attend the class. |
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| + | '''Reflections''' (what went well, what didn’t go well, anything you want to change) |
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| + | '''[[:File:Session 1 Check in-5 senses.odt|Download session plan]]''' |