Continuous Evolution - A Teacher's Learning Experience by Ms. Lekha Gopi, ITPL.

Attending the self-directed and self-paced MOOC exercise was really useful and interesting. It helped me revise all of my learning and upgrade my methods with the expertise and advice of more than 12 speakers across the globe. All the resources had so much to offer. The parts of it that I enjoyed the most were "Teaching with a Purpose" and "Motivating Children Online" as both are extremely relevant for us today. While one course gave me insights on language learning, the other showed me how to incorporate elements of well being in both teaching and learning. Indeed a combination of academics and health makes education holistic to a large extent.

To elaborate, I am able to reflect on the use of pre-reading, miming, and picture order, the latter being a personal favorite of mine as we also did this during my own teacher training program. When we give students the freedom to create an understanding which can later be compared to the original sequence of the story, they're more intrigued to know why the author may have thought about the story in the way that they originally did. In a situation where I intend to help enhance my students' imagination, I would use such an activity. Curating a method that works well for a specific purpose has its perks and makes the learning process a lot more promising.