Innovative Activity of Creating Class Resume

Education is one of the most important aspects of our lives. It is immensely important for a student to feel comfortable in a classroom. The teacher has to play a major role on that front. The teacher has to continuously keep the classroom environment healthy, positive, innovative and light. An efficient teacher comes up with diverse ideas that make learning easy and less stressful. A teacher is the one who teaches the students how to behave, talk, and represent themselves. The teacher explains to the students that they are one single class and they have to act with unity. Also, it is very important for each and every student to be aware of the qualities of their classmates. One such innovative activity is the creation of the class resume. Class resume creation is an innovative practice of jotting down the qualities, features, qualifications of students of a class in one single document. The teacher should explain to his/ her students the importance of a resume and how a resume is a depiction of their class. Some of the sample categories that should find way in a class resume are as follows:

1. List of Languages spoken

2. Names of the Countries visited or lived

3. Pets that the students have ever had

4. Can draw or paint (comics, animals, sci-fi creatures)

5. List of Music skills of the students such as playing a musical instrumeny,singing etc.:

6. The talent of Dancing and the kinds.

7. Writing skills (genres: poems, short stories, plays, jokes, skits, graphic novels)

8. Performance: acting, tricks, jokes, mime

9. List of games or sports played

10. Know how to: (cook dinner, skateboard, feed a baby, set up a tent)

11. Use tools to build or fix things (repair a bike or computer)

12. Can navigate the bus/subway system

13. Gardening talent

14. Tech skills: Can run a VCR, boot up the computer, do research on the internet, build websites, create an app, use GPS

15. List of collections, if any

17. Possession of a library card

18. List of board games played

19. Contests/ Prizes won

20. Belong to clubs or organizations (scouts, etc)

21. Other skills

This activity shall prove extremely useful in chalking out the names of those students who are more talented than the others in one aspect or the other. A student may be excellent in speaking a foreign language whereas the other one may possess an expertise in dancing or singing. This helps the students to understand that who they should turn to for different types of helps.

By: Anuja Arora

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