Q. Available Resources for integrated learning?

Look around the setting you work in and identify the resources already available to you. What else might you want to have? These resources include you as an individual teacher with your own personal skills, or just the classroom space available to teach. What else can this list include? Take a look at the following list, and you can add to it later.

Persons: You (teacher) are a major resource for teaching, your own experiences and interests/hobbies such as reading or skills such as cooking. carpentry, milking the cows, or may be singing etc. can be used for teaching. For insta.nce, if you sing and know about rhythm, you could use this skill to help children make a tune for a poem that children develop, or is part of a book. Or you have a skill in stitching you could
use this for teaching children to make a puppet, and use it for story telling.

Time: You already know the regular school time (School timings) when the children are at the school. Since that time is already allotted to.You it could be used for planning activities. For e.g. if the children are going to be with you in the time period after the break, you would plan some quiet activity, because the children have just had some time for active independent activity and would be ready for some quiet activity.

Children: Children from your class are resources in themselves. They could also have certain skills and interests like painting, acting, basket weaving, embroidery, playing drums etc. Different children have different skills. These skills need to be identified by the teacher, and included as part of teaching. For e.g. a child who knows basket or carpet weaving could teach the skill to other children.