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Notes You may also suggest some referene books to the students. Thc work of topic allocarion
may be taken up just after the reopening of the school, within first 10-15 days. This will
enable students to prepare their topics in time to start interactive sessions at an early date,
so that each student may get a chance to present. As a teacher, you should keep a record of
the portions allotted to various students.
(iii) Decide the dates of presentation: Thc dates of presentation should be fixed for each student
in the beginning itself. This may be notified also. Students may be asked to prepare he
write-ups in advance. More confident and capable students should be given early dates.
(iv) Guidihg and motivating students for preparation of write-ups: In order to ensure that every
studcnt prepares a write-up, you should encourage studcnts to btarl work immediately,
such as reading books on the topic, etc. You should guide the students regarding reference
books and also in the preparation of write-ups. Providing continuous motivation to the
students may be essential for you as a teacher.
(v) Making seating arrangement: You should remember that an interactivc session requires a
seating arrangement of the kind that enables all participants to see and listen to each other.
For this reason circular arrangement is the most effective. The school should ideally have a
room where furniture is arranged in a circular form. This room could be utilised by different
classes during different periods. But, providing a room exclusively for this purpose may be
difficult for many schools. It is, therefore, suggested that such room should be optimally
used for various curricular and cocunicular activities in the school. Reshuffling of furniture
is also easy in the same class. Seating arrangement for interactive sessions.
If you find that even this reshuffling is not possible, you can ask the students to sprcad a
carpet and sit on the ground in a circle. This arrangement should be possible in all the
schools.
(vi) Orientation of the students: For conducting effective interaclive sessions at school, you
should orient your students about the interactive session. You should state the purpose of
the interactive sessions. You should clearly inform the students what they are expected to
do during thc intcractive session. You should also tell them that they will bc evaluated on
the basis of the write-ups thcy preparc, presentation thcy makc and their participation in thc
discussion. The students, therefore, should know thcir role and the process of evaluation.
(vii) Circulating write-ups: An interactive session requires hat thc student should prepare a
write-up which may be brief or a detailed one. The writc-up may be circulated among all
the participanis one or two days in advance so that they go through it and come prepared
in the session. This responsibility may be assigned to the student who has to make the
presentation.
(viii)Demonstration involving team of teachers: At the school stage, it is necessary that the first
presentation should be made by the teachers. The chairperson and recorder also may he
teachers. Thc students should be encouraged to take part alongwith the participating teachers.
Students should be asked in the beginning itself to observe the entire proceedings of the
session so that later on they can conduct the scssions indcpendently in the same manner.

What are the elements of interactive sessions?

(iii) Conducting Interactive Sessions: Conducting an interactive session is the responsibility of
the chairperson. In your class, it would be advisable that you should function as the classroom
conduct the pmcedings. School children may show a lot of hesitation in participating in group
discussion. Your initiative, encouragement and guidance will ensure meaningful interaction in
the group. You can function as an elaborator, moderator and controller, Once the students acquire
confidence in them they can be given responsibility to organise sessions independently.
Nevertheless your role in organising group interactive sessions is very crucial. Some of the

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