ORIENTATION PROGRAMME FOR TEACHING

FRATERNITY

ST. JOSEPH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Perunchoor, Karumandurai Post, Kalrayan Hills, Attur T.K, Salem : 606 139

Teaching Generation Z in the

Classroom
S. Jerald Sagaya Nathan, M.A., M.Phil., SET., NET., M.A. (M.C. & J).,

Assistant Professor of English

St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous),
Tiruchirappalli- 620002
Tamil Nadu, India.
E-Mail: jsnathan1981@gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sjeraldsagayanathan/home
Mobile Nos.: 9843287913/ 962928791
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Dictate and have the monster
figured…
 Dictate and have the monster
figured…
• One volunteer to the board.
• The volunteer questions the audience regarding
the various features of the monster like:
– How many eyes does it have?
– How big is the head?
– How many teeth does it have?
• The students must stand up in turns and gives
the features of the monster in full sentences.
• The volunteer must must draw the monster
being described by the audience, to the best of
their ability

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 Narrate a story using your
imagination…

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 Narrate a story using your
imagination (1)

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 Narrate a story using your
imagination (2)

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 Narrate a story using your
imagination (3)

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 Narrate a story using your
imagination (4)

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 Logically Connect and Narrate…

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 Logically Connect and
Narrate…

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 Logically Connect and
Narrate…

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Teaching is a Noble
Profession
The Kothari Commission for Higher Education:
National Education Commission (1964-1966)

“The destiny of the India is shaped

inside its classrooms”
Problems in Teaching and Learning…
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Digital Migrants & Digital Natives
Understand Your Learners…
 Teacher’s Attitude
• The Pygmalion Effect
(Eliza Dolittle/ Colonel Pickering (Treats as
Lady)/ Professor Higgins (Treats as Flower Girl)
• Towards Authority
(Attitude of Respect)
• Towards Students
(Attitude of Concern)
• Towards Colleagues
(Attitude of Respect)
• Towards Work
(Total Commitment and Dedication)
 Different Generations of
Learners
• Mature or Silent Generation (1928-
1945)
• Baby Boomers (1946-1964)
• Generation X (1965-1979)
• Generation Y or Millennials (1979-
1994)
• NET Generation or Generation Z (1994
– the present day)
 Mature or Silent Generation
(1928-1945)

• willingness to work • Slow to Change

hard/ Hardworking
• Flexibility
• Inability to adapt to
newness
• Determined
• Will power • Not modern
• Loyal • Sticking to old
• Respect Authority ideologies
• Strong during odd times • Believe in fatalism
• Conform to rules and • one-to-one
regulations
interpersonal skills
• Traditionalists
• Waste not, Want not • Love eye-to-eye dealing
 Baby Boomers (1946-1964)

• They think they • Formal in

deserve good fortune
• generally optimistic
• Experimental
• Individualistic
• Self-believing
• Ecological-mined
• Short attention span
• rejection or redefinition
of traditional values
communication
• take responsibility for
actually making things
better.
• Respect is a path to
engagement with this
group.
• Selfish
 Handling Baby Boomers…

• Respect is a path to engagement with

this group.
 Generation X (1965-1979)

• Headache for parents • Pragmatic

• Love freedom/ Self- • skeptical of leadership
gratification
• quick to disengage if
• Rebellious they feel slighted
• Radicals
• want to do things their
• Independent way
• Respect
accomplishment • lack the optimism
• Workaholics • Believe in fatalism
• Unrealistic
 Handling Gen X

• To engage Gen X, leaders must give

them the space to do it their own way,
relax the rules a bit, and realize they’ll
question every attempt made to
engage them.
 Generation Y or Millenials
(1979-1994)

• demand recognition for even • Pro-multi-cultural

routine tasks
• want to know why before they do
anything
• expect to be consulted on
matters big and small
• Comfortable with authority
• Will work hard as needed
• Work and life balanced
• Work for respect
• Techno savvy
• Goal Oriented
• Achievement Oriented
• Socially and environmentally
aware
• Communicate with texts
• Share things
• Focused on the present
• Optimists
• Want to be discovered
• They’ll be most engaged
when working with
people they think are
smart, social and
committed.
 Handling Generation Y

• The enthusiasm and self-confidence of

Millennials is infectious and inspiring
if it’s channeled.
 NET Generation or Generation Z
(1994 – the present day)
• Digital Natives/ Selfie
Generation
• Fast Decision Makers/ Super
connected
• Feel that they are special
• Want to feel protected
• Highly optimistic
• Social Advocates
• Inclusiveness
• Accomplished
• Pressured
• Multi-tasking
• Brand conscious
• Community minded
• Pro-multicultural
• Pro-equality
• Future focused/ Career
Focused/ Entrepreneurs
• Seek Quality
• Time is valuable
• Expectation of convenience
• Need for speed and space
• Hunger for options
• Sense of right/ entitlement
• Communicates with images
• Want to work for success
• Easily depressed
• Realists
• Creative and innovative
 NET Generation or Generation Z
(1994 – the present day)
• They love activity based learning
• Ideal Learning Environment
– Less lecture
– Use of Multimedia
– Collaborating with peers
– Be non-authoritarian
– Provide rationale
– Create less formal environment
– Interact informally
– Show interest in them
– Touch them emotionally
– Connect with them on a personal level
 What is teaching?

• Teaching is the process of attending to

people’s needs, experiences and
feelings, and intervening so that they
learn particular things, and go beyond
the given.
Teaching is a Group Task
 Teacher is the most influential
person in the World…
• Circle of Concern
• Circle of Influence
(Teacher can impact for eternity: They
can make or break a nation)
– Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
(1989) by Stephen Covey
– Story of the Boy and Crippled Butterflies
Teacher as Compendium of Values…
Follow Work Ethics…
Team Building Tasks…
 Crazy Tasks – Team Building…
• Time: > 1 hour
Number of Participants: Two or more small groups
Tools Needed: Pen and Paper
Rules: Break the group into teams of two or more.
Make a list of goofy tasks for each team to do as a
group.
• Tasks can include taking a selfie with a stranger, taking
a picture of a building or object around the office, etc.
Give the list to each team, along with a deadline by
which they must complete all tasks. Whoever completes
the most tasks the quickest, wins! (You can even create
your own point system according to task difficulty if you
want!)
• Objective: Great team bonding exercise that helps
break up office cliques by encouraging people to work
with colleagues from other teams, departments, or just
social circles.
 Blindfold Game
• Time: 15 - 30 minutes
Number of Participants: 4 - 10 people (even numbers)
Tools Needed: Various handheld objects, several blindfolds
Rules: Find an open space such as an empty parking lot or a
park. Place the objects (cones, balls, bottles, etc.) sporadically
across the open space. Have everyone pair up, and make one
person on from each pair put on the blindfold. The other
person must lead their teammate from one side of the open
space to the other without stepping on the objects — using
only the verbal instructions. The blindfolded person cannot
speak at all. To make it more difficult, create specific routes
the blindfolded team members must walk.
Objective:
• This game focuses on trust, communication, and effective
listening.
• This activity makes a great team building beach game as well.
 How to Handle Present
Generation of Students?
• Recognize that the people who work for
you are individuals with intrinsic human
value.
• Reward excellence, and encourage and
educate those who come up short.
• Engage by committing to shared goals,
committing to building a great place to
work, and sharing your sense of
engagement with the goals of the
organization.
 How to Handle Present
Generation of Students?
• Communicate via Visual and catering to
diverse audience
• Connect via technology of different types
• Keep communication short/ stretchable
• Feed their curiosity/ provide them with
options/ preferences and settings
• Inspire them/ Be updated with social
issues and pull them into discussion and
action research
• Find their expertise and initiate them
Flipping the Classroom…
Engaging Students Using
Technology…
Education is not the filling of a pail
but the lighting of a fire.
— William Butler Yeats
Classroom File Sharing Apps…
https://www.google.com/drive/
https://www.google.com/drive/using-drive/
https://www.dropbox.com/h
 Dropbox
• This application allows the teachers to
upload the presentation photos, videos,
assignments
• The students can have an easy access to the
materials in the classroom
Ted or at their homes.
• With the help of this app, the teachers can
edit as well as create Microsoft Office files in
their smart phones and the file links can be
shared with the students without flooding
their inbox with massive files.
https://edu.google.com/products/classroom/?mo
dal_active=none
 Google Classroom
• Generally used by the school for the purpose
of distributing and grading the assignments
of the students.
• This Classroom app is used by the teachers
for storing the class materials in G drive so
that the students can have an easy access to
the materials in case of urgent requirements.
• The teachers also use this app for making
certain announcements and debates.
https://www.edmodo.com/
 Edmodo
• Edmodo is a full-featured social learning platform designed to
connect and collaborate within the educational environment.
• It is a social media network which is not only perfect for
teachers and students but also to parents or guardians to
use to share information in school.
• It collaborates and connect, share content and get access
homework, school notices and grades.
• Can use Edmodo as an online blackboard and inbox.
• Can post polls, quizzes, and assignment guidelines, and
invite students to submit finished assignments.
• There are various ways to use Edmodo as teacher including
to communicate with your students when you’re out of the
classroom, or provide updates to students who are absent
from class , facilitate project based learning in your
classroom by leveraging Edmodo’s small-group feature.
https://evernote.com/
 Evernote

• Evernote is indispensable note taking

app
• It helps teachers eliminate printed
handouts for outside-the-classroom
learning.
• Can share projects and assignments
with students using shared
notebooks.
https://nearpod.com/international?utm_expid=.PuT7d
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 Nearpod
• Nearpod offers teachers an easy-to-use tool for
creating interactive lesson plans, presentations,
assessments, and digital content.
• Nearpod allows teachers to create digital lesson
plans, share it with students during class, and
track individual progress.
• Lessons are comprised of teacher-created slides
that can include text, video, images, websites,
questions, quizzes, polls, and assignments.
• Students are able to follow the lesson on their own
devices at their own pace or teachers can lead a
synchronized session where students can follow
the lesson in real-time.
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https://quizlet.com/en-gb
 Quizlet
• With the Quizlet app, students can
search an online database of more
than 13 million user-created flashcard
sets on a wide variety of topics.
• This app is free, and the content
varies from highly useful to useless.
• The app is for reviewing flashcards
and students can use it to create their
own sets of flashcards.
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https://kahoot.com/explore-games/
https://www.khanacademy.org/
https://www.studyblue.com/#home
https://login.mathletics.com/
 Mathletics Student
• Mathletics is the world’s leading educational
resource for mathematics, created by the
team behind the World Education Games.
• Many schools have introduced their students
to the competitive thrills provided by
Mathletics.
• Let your students experience learning and
practicing maths by competing against
children from all over the world.
Other Resources…
https://www.ted.com/talks
 Ted Talks
• TED tools innovate the education system and
enrich student engagements with intriguing
lecture sessions delivered by leading subject
matter experts.
• It acts an outstanding resource for teachers
and enables unique presentation techniques,
covering a wide range of interesting topics.
• With its effective online debates and creative
lesson plans, Ted perfectly accompanies
teachers by making the classroom discussion
interactive and knowledge-rich experience.
 Useful Language Apps…

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English app

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