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Classroom practicum log
One class, one chapter, 10–30 students, four weeks. Cohort details, a consent and ethics checklist, a weekly log with the decision column that matters most, and the list of evidence you will carry into the capstone. The example row uses illustrative numbers.
1How to use this log
Ten minutes a week, every week of the practicum. The log is the raw material of your capstone — if the decision is not written down in the week you made it, it is gone by Week 10.
Pick one class, one chapter, 10–30 students. Teach the chapter as you normally would. Run a short diagnostic, read it for concepts rather than marks, assign an intervention to the students who need it, reassess, and write down what you decided and why. Bring the log to the weekly 30-minute clinic.
2Cohort details
Class and section
Subject and NCERT chapter
Number of students in the practicum (10–30)
Practicum dates — start / end
Tools used — paper / PrepGraph / other (name them)
Students who have the AI tutor at home (number) — the tutor is part of the student’s AI plan; practicum classes are provisioned with it by the school or pilot. Students without it still get homework, quizzes, doubts and progress.
Students who cannot attempt online work at home (number) and my plan for them
3Consent and ethics — before Week 1
- ☐ The school has agreed to the practicum in writing (principal / coordinator) and parents have been informed where the school requires it
- ☐ No student names, roll numbers or identifiable photographs appear in anything I share outside the school (clinic, capstone, DLD)
- ☐ Student data stays in the school’s platform and records; I do not paste student work or personal details into public AI tools
- ☐ Students know when an AI tool is involved (the tutor, a drafted explanation) and that I make the decisions about their learning
- ☐ Students who opt out, or cannot take part online, are taught exactly as before and included in any in-class reteach
- ☐ I have decided my mastery line for the diagnostic before seeing results
4Weekly log at a glance
Fill one row a week. The first row is an EXAMPLE (illustrative numbers) from a Class VIII Linear Equations practicum, to show how specific a useful entry is. Print this page landscape.
| Week | What I taught | Diagnostic given (items, date) | What the results showed | Who needed what | Intervention assigned — and how (practice / AI tutor where available / reteach) | Reassessment result | My decision this week | Time spent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXAMPLE (illustrative) — Week 2 | Linear Equations in One Variable: transposing terms; variables on both sides | 10 items, Tuesday of week 1, in class (PrepGraph assignment) | 17 of 35 below mastery on transposition; 14 chose the “sign stays the same when a term moves” distractor on Q4 and Q8 | Group A (17): transposition; Group B (6): forming equations from word problems; rest: extension set | Group A: 8-item practice set + AI-tutor re-explain at home for those provisioned; 10-min reteach Thursday with the balance model. Group B: 4 word problems. 3 who did not attempt: called parents | Not yet — reassess in week 3 with 6 fresh items | Reteach transposition whole-class (too many missed it to treat as a group); keep Group B on word problems | 45 min |
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5Weekly detail (repeat for each week)
Week number and dates
What I taught (topics, concepts tagged in the class log if using PrepGraph)
Diagnostic or reassessment given — number of items, date, how administered
What the results showed — by question first, then by student; which distractor was chosen most
Who needed what — groups by concept missed, with counts
Intervention assigned — and how: practice set / reteach / AI tutor at home where available / peer pair
Reassessment result — who improved, who did not, who was absent
My decision this week — and the AI suggestion I accepted or overrode
Time spent on the practicum this week (outside normal teaching)
Question for the weekly clinic
6Evidence I will bring to the capstone
- ☐ This log, all four weeks, with the decision column filled
- ☐ The chapter decomposition planner for the chapter
- ☐ The diagnostic items and answer key; the reassessment items
- ☐ Before/after numbers per concept, with the source of each (dashboard export / paper marking / my register)
- ☐ Attempt rates and practice completed (from the assignments view or my register)
- ☐ One AI suggestion I overrode and why
- ☐ Two or three anonymised student comments, collected with the school’s consent
- ☐ A one-paragraph note to parents I drafted from the dashboard data (AI-assisted is fine — I wrote and sent it)
- ☐ Anything that went wrong, and what I changed
The student’s AI tutor is part of the student AI plan; practicum classes are provisioned with it by the school or pilot. Students on the free tier still get homework, quizzes, doubts and progress — plan the intervention so that no student depends on the tutor to take part.
Classroom practicum log — PrepGraph Academy, training.prepgraph.com/resources/classroom-practicum-log. Free to use and adapt with attribution to PrepGraph Academy; not for resale. Full terms: training.prepgraph.com/terms. Example figures, where given, are illustrative.
Independent programme, not a CBSE certification. PrepGraph Academy is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or accredited by the Central Board of Secondary Education. Certificates are issued by PrepGraph. The programme is designed around the CBSE 2026-27 training theme and the CBSE/NPST professional-development domains; the host school decides how to record the hours under CBSE’s CPD guidelines and keeps the attendance records.