Friday, 3 February 2017

WEEKLY REFLECTION - FOURTH SEMESTER

WEEKLY REFLECTION - FOURTH SEMESTER


17/11/16 - 18/11/16
As the part of B.Ed curriculum the second part our teaching practice for thirty days started on 16, November 2016. This time also I got Govt.HSS Koickal and I was really glad for that. Two Mathematics optional trainees and an English optional trainee were there with me. The concerned teacher alloted me to take the fourth and fifth unit of ninth standard and I started ‘The Jungle Air Crash. This time I was very familiar with the school atmosphere.

21/11/16  - 25/11/16
On this week I continued with the chapter ‘The Jungle Air Crash’. Pupils were very co-operative during the classes and it helped me in the smooth running of classes. They were eager to know the story. This week I got many substitution periods and I enjoyed that a lot.

29/11/16– 2/12/16
  In this week also I continued the chapter ‘The Jungle Air Crash’ and pupils were very sad to hear the predicament of Juliane. This week our teacher Ambili visited our school for observing our classes and this time she gave tips to give the class more effective. So I started practicing as per her instruction.

5/12/16 – 7/12/16
In this week I got only two classes because of educational strike and I completed a poem named ’Another Chance’. The first part of fourth semester teaching practice got over on 7th December 2016 and we went back to our college for University exams . But this week I completed the thirteenth and fourteenth lesson plans.

3/1/17 – 6/1/16
The second part of our fourth semester teaching practice, started on 3/1/17, and that was my first class on the New Year. I started the new chapter ‘The Last Leaf’ by O. Henry. I introduced the author to them by saying about his famous ‘twist’. The class was interesting and they were curious to learn the lesson.

9/1/17 – 13/1/17
In this week our general teacher Sangeetha Miss visited our school for observing our classes and teacher gave delighting feedbacks on my class, that encouraged me a lot and this week I continued the chapter ‘The Last Leaf’. And on the Thursday we got the duty serving the meals for the students and we did that with immense pleasure.

16/1/17 – 20/1/17
In this week I started a new poem ‘The Newton’s Law ’, a funny poem about poet, own childhood. I also started the chapter ‘The Making of a Scientist’. I also taught then affixesusing concept attainment model. On Thursday we the trainees conducted our conscientization programme on the topic ‘Environmental Hazards of Plastic and we got good feedbacks from the students. And this week itself I conducted achievement test during a free period.

30/1/17 – 31/1/17
With this week we came to the end of our fourth semester teaching practice and I took two models , role play model based on the chapter ‘The Making of a Scientist’ and advance organizer model on the topic adjectives. Pupils were very much interested in doing the role play model. On the whole with this teaching practice I gained a lot of experience which will help me in my future career. We expressed our gratitude to all for their support.

Saturday, 3 December 2016

INNOVATIVE LESSON TEMPLATE - 2

NAME OF THE TEACHER   :  Preethika J.
NAME OF THE SCHOOL    :  GHSS KOICKAL
SUBJECT                                :  English
LESSON                                 :  The Jungle Air Crash
STANDARD                           :  IX B
DURATION                           : 45 minutes

CONTENT GENERATION

IDEATIONAL CONTENT
                Julian Koepcke loved flying very much. She was a young girl who had only finished secondary school. She, with her mother wished to celebrate Christmas with her father in the jungle. So, they boarded flight 508. Her father was an ecologist and her mother an ornithologist. In the aircraft, she sat beside her mother. All passengers were happy when the flight took off.

LINGUISTIC CONTENT
                Paragraph writing, vocabulary item.
ADDITIONAL CONTENT
                The child’s experiences of traveling in a train.
DISCOURSE
                Letter writing.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES  : The learners,
1.       faces the challenges in life with confidence.
2.       evolves strategies in order to come out of difficult situation.
3.       manage disasters effectively.
PRE-REQUISTES                                : The leaners,
1.       has heard about the plane crashes.
2.       knows the power of hope.

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES
                Group, individual work
TEACHING-LEARNING AIDS
                Course book, source book, chart, black board

PROCESS
ACTIVITY
RESPONSE
ENTRY ACTIVITY
         The teachers creates report with the students by engaging in an informal conversation
·         Have you ever travelled in a plane?
·         Have you ever heard about plane crashes and its aftermath?


ANALYSIS OF THE LESSON
         Teacher gives a short summery by explaining each sentence of the chapter

AUTHOR OF THE POEM
         Teacher shows the image of the author and introduces some of her works

MODEL READING
         Teacher reads the stanzas loudly

INDIVIDUAL READING
         Teacher asks the students to read individually and asks them to mark the word or phrase they find difficult to understand

COLLABORATIVE READING
         Teacher asks the students to form a group and try to understand the meaning of the words.

ENRICHING VOCABULARY
         Teacher ask the pupil to ask their doubts regarding each paragraph, meaning of the words etc.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
         Teacher asks the students to find a thought related to our topic.

SCAFFOLDING QUESTION
         Teacher leads the students for further in depth understanding of the passage by asking certain questions
·         Why was there a holiday mood on the plane?
·         Where was Julian sitting?

PREPARATION OF DISCOURSE
         Teacher ask the students to prepare a letter based on the lesson

PRESENTATION
         The students have to present their work.

EDITING
         The teacher helps the pupil to edit their discourse.


FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY

Imaging that you were a passenger of that plane. Write down the horrifying experience in a paragraph.

Innovative Lesson Template - I

INNOVATIVE LESSON TEMPLATE -I

NAME OF THE TEACHER   :  Preethika J.
NAME OF THE SCHOOL    :  GHSS KOICKAL
SUBJECT                                :  English
TOPIC                                                :  The Jungle Air Crash
THEME                                  :  Power of Hope
SUB THEME                          : Inspiration, Optimism, Truth, Sacrifice, Disaster
  Management.

GOALS
Learners will be able to
1.     face the challenges in life with confidence.
2.     evolves strategies in order to come out of a difficult situation.
3.     manage disasters effectively.
OBJECTIVES
After completing the section students will be able to cope up with any disaster that come their way.

MATERIALS
1.     Course book
2.     Source book
3.     PowerPoint presentation
4.     Pictures



PROCESS
RESPONSE
BEGINNING SESSION
          Teacher engages in a friendly talk to create a good warm-up stage with the learners.


LESSON ENTRY
          Teacher ask some question to the learners about plane travel and show some pictures of the plane crash.
1.     Would you like to travel in a plane?
2.     Have you ever travelled in it?
3.     Have you ever heard about plane crashes and its aftermath?

Then teacher writes the title on the black board.
 The Jungle Air Crash- Juliane Koepcke.


DEVELOPMENT
          Teacher reads the lesson and explains it to the students also share their ideas with friends.

VOCABULARY HUNTING
          Teacher asks the learners to hunt new words and explains the words through situations, examples, referring glossary etc.
1.     Ecologist- A person who studies the natural relationship between the air, land, water and animals.
2.     Ornithologist – A person who studies ornithology- the branch of science devoted to birds.
3.     Aisle – A long narrow space between rows of seats.
4.     Horizon – The line where the sky seems to touch the land or sea.


PAIR READING
            Teacher divides the paragraph into two equal halves and divide the students into pairs. Then ask the pairs to read the passage part by part.

MEGAPHONING THE DOUBTS
            Teacher ask the students to come up with their doubts and megaphone the doubts to the whole class.


DETAILED STUDY
             Teacher ask different question to predict, establish and build up thoughts.
1.     Why was there a holiday mood on the plane?
2.     Where was, Juliane sitting?
3.     What happened when the plane was over the Jungle?

TASK EMPLOYING
Teacher gives them a question for discussion.
1.     What happened when the flight took off?


PRESENTATION AND EDITING
Teacher ask the students to come up with the products.
Teacher helps the students to edit it.


CLOSURE
Teacher gives the summary of the paragraphs taken.







ASSIGNMENT

Imagine that you were a passenger of that plane. Write down the horrifying experience in a paragraph.



Wednesday, 2 November 2016

WEEKLY REFLECTION
(Third semester)

28/6/16 – 01/07/16
            As per the B. Ed curriculum our third semester teaching practice for forty days started on 28th June 2016. I got G. H. S.S, Koickal or my internship programme. Maths option trainees Shabna and Mubeena and English option trainee Soorya were there with me. I got class IX A for teaching. The concerned teacher assigned me to take unit I and II. As a B. Ed trainee, the school experience was a new experience for me. I started the first chapter ‘Nobility of Service’ this week.

04/07/16 – 08/07/16
            I continued the same chapter and completed it with all its textual activities. This week I started a new poem ‘Song of a Dream’ also. I put all my effort to teach them poetic devices. They showed great co-operation and tried to understand all the poetic devices used in the poem.  Pupils response was good.

11/07/16 – 15/07/16
            In this week, I completed the poem and started the next chapter ‘Maternity’. Pupils were very active and they were very eager to know the story. Their response gave me a sense of satisfaction. Our general teacher Sangeetha visited our school this week for observation.

18/07/16 – 22/07/16
            This week I continued the same chapter. Pupils were very active during scaffolding questions and we completed some textual activities related to this chapter. In this week, our optional teacher Ambili came for observation.

25/07/16 – 29/07/16
            I completed the chapter ‘Maternity’ and started a new poem ‘Song of the Rain’ by Khalil Gibran. It was a philosophical poem and I struggled to make the students understand the theme of the poem. I think I had succeeded in this task because pupils responded correctly to my questions. I completed the poem and all the textual activities.

01/08/16 – 05/08/16
            In this week, I conducted a test paper to evaluate the performance of my students. Some students’ performance was very bad and I had to give them a remedial class. I began the play ‘Listen to the Mountain’ this week. There was an enactment on every class and it was a different experience for me. Pupils also enjoyed the enactment.

08/08/16 – 12/08/16
            I continued the play this week. Pupils were very disturbed after understanding that we are responsible for the destruction of ecosystem. I am happy that all of said unanimously that they will do everything they can to save our ecosystem.

16/08/16 – 19/08/16
            This week I completed the play and started and completed the new lesson ‘A Letter to an Uncle’ by C. V. Raman. To introduce the lesson, I made them familiar with famous letters of great personalities.  The problems raised in the letter were discussed with pictures for better understanding.

23/08/16 – 26/08/16

            In this week, I used teaching models for effective teaching. The play ‘Listen to the Mountain’ was taken for role play model. Pupils grasped the theme of the lesson and the elements of role play. Adjectives were taught using advance organizer model and conditional clause was taught using concept attainment model. We completed our first teaching practice session and we expressed our sincere gratitude to the headmistress and all other teachers for their support and co-operation.

Friday, 15 July 2016

Digital Text

E-Library

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Advantages

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