Innovative practices reflection
- 1. RAMCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Computer Science and Engineering Academic Year: 2019 - 2020 (Odd Semester) Degree, Semester & Branch : V Semester B.E (Common to ECE, EEE, MECH) Course(Subject) Code & Title : OIT551 Database Management Systems Name of the Faculty member : Mr. K.Vignesh Saravanan, AP / CSE Date: 09.07.2019 Innovative Practice: Reflection Topics: Relation Models, Keys, Relational Algebra (previous lectures, if any) Objectives: O1: To encourage the students to come up with more questions and doubts on the topics that they are not clear. Justification for choosing this topic: Reflection is a process where teachers can identify their own teaching process and analyzing how their teaching (content delivery) might be improved for the better understanding of the students. The prime objective of Reflection is to make the students write their doubts in a paper on topics which they are not clear, so as the teacher can discuss and clarify the concepts that are not understood by the students. Activity on Reflection: After part of the lesson is completed, in order to address the doubts and to know the level of understanding of the students, they are insisted to honestly describe the concepts that they didn’t understand well. The students wrote their doubts and topics which they are not clear. The papers are collected by the course instructor and discussed all the doubts in next class session and make them understand. The course instructor also provided a short written explanation on the papers collected from the students for future reference. Observations made: The topics in which students have some doubts or not clear: Keys – Candidate keys Relational algebra – unary, binary Domain in relation models Some additional example should have been planned for explaining the Key concepts. Some of the students unaware of the basic operations in computing, so felt very difficult to understand relational algebra operations. Action taken: Explanation is written in all the students’ paper and common doubts among students are discussed and explained in the next lecture session. Additional video is posted for the students to understand the concept of keys better.
- 2. OUTCOME: Through this activity the students can recollect the topics on Relational model, and relational algebra and keys. The students are made to understand the concepts in which they are not clear and ensured that they understood the topics thoroughly.
- 4. Relevance Mapping - This activity helps in attaining the following Objectives – PO mapping: Course Outcome / Programme Outcome PO4 PO10 PO12 O1 - To encourage the students to come up with more questions and doubts on the topics that they are not clear 1 3 1 Reflection Critique Challenges: Some of the students are unaware of the basic operations in computing so they hesitated to write their doubts in reflection paper. Slow learners did not show good interest and did not participate. Students started to discuss with their neighbors during the activity. Steps taken for address the challenges I instructed the students to write any of their doubts, even it is very simple doubts or simply write the topics title that they are not clear. I motivated the slow learners to involve in activity effectively by means of addressing the usefulness of this activity for them. References: 1. https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/reflective-teaching-exploring-our-own- classroom-practice 2. https://www.cambridge-community.org.uk/professional- development/gswrp/index.html Prepared by: Approved by: Mr. K.Vignesh Saravanan, AP/CSE Dr. K.Vijayalakshmi, HOD/CSE