INNOVATIVE WORK

 I created an innovative work using "Microsoft word" to make it more accessible to everyone. I created a cartoon describing the story of 'The Race' in 9^th standard textbook.

Cognitive Map

 A cognitive map is a visual organization and representation of knowledge. It shows each major points and ideas and the relationships among them. It provide information about each concept, idea and their inter relationships. It helps learners to understand a concept by connecting each and every relationship easily.

This assignment contains cognitive maps for plus one and plus two students, based on the units “The Sleep” and “Match Box”.

The poem “To Sleep” from the unit 5 ‘Harmony of Life’ written by William Wordsworth, who is known as the high priest of Nature, is an exquisite poem that presents to us some of the finest sights, sounds and movements of Nature. The major concepts like the poet, type of poem, theme and poetic devices are identified. Then the details regarding the poet including sub concepts like details about Wordsworth, his theme and works are included. Then in the next main concept type of poem is mentioned as sonnet. In the poetic devices, all the poetic devices like personification, rhyme scheme, metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Imagery, oxymoron and hyperbole are identified and in the specific concepts every detail regarding these poetic devices from the poem are included. Then the major theme is ‘the power of sleep’ which is also included in the cognitive map.

The story “Match Box” in the unit 1 ‘Flights of Freedom’ written by Ashapurna Debi describes about the unhealthy relationships between husband and wife in an Indian family. It is a unit which describes about women empowerment and the chapter explains about how women are like a matchbox which is quiet and calm but it has the power to burn anyone who interferes her privacy and questions her self - respect.

 The cognitive map includes every main concepts, sub concepts and specific concepts in the chapter Matchbox. The main concepts include author, character, themes and activities. The details about author include her image, date of birth, awards, etc. The characters were exposed and there character sketch is briefly specified. In the main concept theme, the creator has included women empowerment and unhealthy marital relationships in India. In the major activities, the activities to improve speaking, reading and writing are explained and each activity is specified in the map. The cognitive map also included an animated video which shows the story ‘Match Box’ in an interesting way which will attract students.

YOGA PRACTICE

Based on our B.Ed curriculum, we were asked to take a class to our first year students about a yoga pose and to make them understand how to perform the yoga pose. 

Butterfly Pose or Badhakonasana

I took the session to the particular group of first year students. First, I made them do the warm up sessions and then introduced my yoga pose and its steps to them. I demonstrated well. Then I asked them to do the butterfly pose with me. It was an interesting experience for us.

Community Living Camp DAY 5

 Title: Arangozhiyal

The day began with the news reading of Emerald house in which they gave a brief idea about the previous day. The next session was a "Workshop on Community Productive Work, Mask making and Distribution" which was taken by Aawani Aswan who is a student teacher inour college itself. She informed us before hand itself to bring cotton cloth, needle, compus, thread, fevicol and pencil. With her proper guidance, we made our own 3 layered cotton mask. 

In between the session, we the Sapphire house members served the tea and snacks as student teachers were engaged deeply into the mask making process. It was a session which made the theme of the camp Education- creative and social aspects meaningful. 

The cultural programme of Sapphire house beginned at 11.45 am. keerthi and Viji were the anchors of the programme. I am the captain of Sapphire house and I arranged every very programme and was really tensed. We began with a group song which included every member of the house, then there was the individual songs of Nidhi, Olivia and Keerthi which was really pleasing to the ears. Then we presented two videos with a theme of 'Raja Ravi Varma painting'. It was very difficult to dress like the painted ladies, but we planned carefully and made it a success and everyone appreciated us for our effort. Then there was a tableau on the theme of covid.Then we presented a tribute to empowered women, by presenting, Indira Gandhi, Sania Mirza, Malala Yousafzai, Kiran Bedi, etc along with ordinary women. As the title of the day, it was the last day of our camp and we decided make it memorable. So we planned a mass dance at the end of the programme and it made everyone happy and very Student and teachers danced with us and we considered it as the Kalashakkott of our camp. I am really happy that everything went well as we planned. We were able to show our team work, trust understanding and cooperation. As a captain and as a member of the house I am so happy. Then I read the news report of the whole day.

After lunch we had the valedictory function. Our principal Dr.Preetha T.L gave an introduction and asked students to share our reflection regarding the camp. Keerthi, Ankitha, Raji James and me shared our views about the camp. Personally, for me the camp was really interesting and it helped to develop moral values, leadership skills , problem solving skills, sense of togetherness, creativity and so much more. The camp was a memorable one. 

Community Living Camp DAY 4

Title : Mirror

After the third days recreational activity many of us were physically weak. But as it was an interesting day and camp we were excited about our fourth day. 

The day began with the news reading of Ruby house. They included every activites, time, sessions and about recreational activity in their news report. Then there was a tea break from 9.45 to 1.00. The programmes of fourth day was coordinated by Emerald house. They gave us snacks and tea at proper tea break time. 

The next session was from 10 to 12.30pm. it was a session titled ' Know yourself ' by Mr. Rahul MV, Assistant professor in Education, GCTE, thycaud. I have no words to explain as his session was really interesting and created a feeling to look into ourselves. He made us understand that knowing ourselves, loving ourselves etc are very important in our life. He made the session interesting through mind games and thought provoking exercises.

After the session we had our lunch break. 

From 1.15 to 2.30pm was our mock parliament session. We chose a ruling party leader which was Keerthi, opposition party leader which was Nibin and Speaker who was Aswathy. 

When the parliament started, we were nervous, but after sometime it was so much fun. There was an energetic, fire spitting opposition and I was in the opposition party and I really enjoyed the session. Teachers were amazed at the performance and appreciated us.

From 2.30 to 3.15 there was cultural programmes conducted by 'Emerald House'. We were all excited to watch the programme. Parvathy was the anchor of the programme and she had done an amazing job. They presented various programmes like group song, comedy sessions, individual songs and dance performances and winded up with the group dance which was so interesting and pleasing to watch. 

By 3.20 the tea and snacks were served. After the tea break students were directed to clean the campus programme. It was a cleaning session planned for second day. As it was cancelled campus cleaning was included in the fourth day. We the Sapphire house were assigned to clean the second floor of the institution and we done our duties neat and clean. 

The day came to an end at 4 pm and we left the college being excited to show them what we are going to do on the next day, as it was Sapphire group's day to organise.

Community Living Camp DAY 3

 Day 3

Title : Sancharam

The day 3 was 'Visit to Recreational Center'. After a fruitful discussion we decided to visit 'green tsavorite' farm. All of us were excited and happy as we were having a short period to relax. 

The journey started from our college at 9 am with 45 students and 6 teachers in CDS tours and travels bus. On the way we were picking up our friends too. I got into the bus from attingal. I was so excited as we were enjoying the mood of a tour. Everyone was enjoying the music and dancing. At 10.30 we reached the farm. It was very quiet and calm. We felt refreshing and enthusiastic. They provided 4 rooms to put our luggage and we got a refreshing drink and biscuits. 

Then there were various activities arranged for us. The session began with a treasure hunt which was very interesting. Then there was various group activities as well as individual activities. I enjoyed the rope crossing very much. At first i was slightly scared, bit decided to give it a try. It was really an amazing experience. 

Then we had our lunch at 1.30 pm. It was a delicious meal. After lunch we scattered all over the farm. We rested for sometime and then again back to our activities. Some were engaged in rope climbing, bamboo raft rowing, kite flying, bicycle riding, etc. It was really enjoyable. Then there were mud volleyball activities in which students and teachers engaged and it was very interesting to watch and play. 

We finished the activities at 4.15 and fresh up and got ready to have our tea and snack. We enjoyed our tea time together. This was the last trip in our BE.d life and it was worth spending there. It was a day filled with fun. 

English family

Community Living Camp DAY2

Day 2

Title: Nanma

The day two was planned well by the organizing committee, teachers and students. But unfortunately there was a strike and we were forced to cancel the second day programmes and they were rescheduled into the coming days. 

Community Living Camp DAY1

Our college decided to conduct the community living camp from 1 March to 5 March. Our community living camp "Meraki 2021" with the theme 'Education - its creative and social aspects'. It was an amazing experience for all of us.

Day 1

Title : Kelikottu

The first day began with the inaugural ceremony which was from 9.30 to 10.20 am.  The programme started by seeking the blessing of the almighty with the prayer by college coir. Later on, Dr. Preetha T L Principal CNCE welcomed everyone to the gathering. The camp was inaugurated by Dr. Malini P M, Principal KNM BEd college, Kanjiramkulam. Ma'am took a short inagural session in which she explained about meaning of community Living Camp, its benefits, how it can be associated with our theme, etc. Her class was very brief, yet satisfactory. Then our director Rev.Fr Sony Sebastian and Ms Sushmma prabha ma'am proposed the felicitation. Father talked about the importance of going back to the old days, away from all this digital world. Then Ms Prabhitha Prabhakaran expressed pur sincere thanks to Nalini ma'am and all the guests on the stage.

Every function and duties were assigned to everyone. There was no delay or confusion at all. Each day was assigned to each house in the college. The first day was assigned to Ruby house. The tea break was from 10.20 to 10.30 and the ruby house has organized it well. They supplied tea and snacks to everyone in the camp and for the guests. 

The next session was from 10.30 to 12.30 which was by Dr Pramod, Assistant professor In Education - Chinmaya Vidhyalaya, Ernakulam. The title of the session was " Scamper your thoughts and actions". He introduced the topic through varieties of activities. He gave plenty of activities to boost our creativity. Through the session, he encouraged all of the student teachers to make the thoughts into actions. The morning session was ended at 12:30 pm with the Vote of thanks by Ms.Aawani Aswan.

After the lunch hour, everyone was very excited to watch the cultural programme performed by the ruby house. The Ruby house captain Athira Sreekumar welcomed everyone to their wonderful programs. The programme began by the presentation of a video to introduce every members of their group. Further the group presented a video on Students in Online classes. Next, Ms.Aawani Aswan presented a dance performance, followed by that Ms. Anusree came up with a soothing light music performance. After the performances, the team presented a short video on 'Abuses against women', which showcases the abuses faced by women in all walk of their life. The programme was followed by video of group dance by the team members. After the programmes we came up with a fashion show exhibiting a few of the most iconic woman characters of Malayalam cinema, which was undoubtedly the highlight of the programme. The cultural programmes came to an end with a song by Ms.NandaS.S. 

After the cultural programmes, there was a workshop on interview and CV preparation by VishnuRaj, Verbal Aptitude and Career Launcher, Recruitment process trainer. He made us understand how to prepare our CV and explained each step clearly. It was a very useful session. The session lasted from 2.30 to 3.30. and restarted after the tea break and ended at 4.30. 

The first day was really amazing. Ruby house, its members and each and every teachers coordinated the first day very well.

Third week of Teaching Practice

 The third week of teaching practice was from 16 February 2021. I began to teach the lesson "Matchbox" by Ashapurna Debi. It was a good chapter which compares women to matchbox, which means women sit meek and calm but they have the power to burn a Lanka itself. I was happy that, the plus two chapters are really good and they even focus on themes like women empowerment and its importance. 

The story was good. There was a very interesting experience based on this lesson in my class. The character Ajit has an ugly habit of reading the letters of his wife. But its a bad habit and everyone knows it. But my students were not ready to consider his habit as a bad thing. They believe in the rights of a husband to read the letters or anything that is owned by the wife. I was not that surprised because I expected this answer. So I worked so hard to made them understand the way Ajit could have been reacting if his wife did the same and like that. It was an interesting week.

Then on 22 February 2021 I gave them a diagnostic test and I understood that, they have difficulty in learning the spelling of words.

On 23 February 2021, I gave them remedial teaching for spelling mistakes. I gave them the correct meaning and example of the word "Consensus" which was given in the question paper. then I found 10 words from a chapter and explained it meaning and examples in a chart paper and PPT to make the word thorough for them. Then I put a dictation for them, which showed a slight change in the results. Then I presented a chart with squares are drawn with certain words written in clockwise and anticlockwise directions. It was an interesting session. They began to try hard to find the word. For the person finding the answer first I gave a chocolate as the reward.

Then on 24 February 2021, I gave them an achievement test to check whether they understood the lessons taught by me.

I am really happy with this teaching practice as I got a chance to be physically present in my classrooms in front of my students. I was able to implement certain strategies and learnt to control the classroom. 

Third Week Peer Teaching

 The third week peer teaching was from 17 February 2021. I finished the lesson "Crime and Punishment " on  17 February itself. After that I planned to teach grammar portions using Concept attainment teaching, Direct Instruction Model and Advance Organizer Model.Then at the end I taught "The Race " from 9th standard and finished my peer teaching. Teaching the grammar portions was a good experience. I am always scared to take grammar portions, but whenever I take grammar portions my peer members used to appreciate me and gave me positive feedback. The peer teaching was going in parallel with the teaching practice which helped me a lot.

Second week peer teaching

Second week of peer teaching was from 11 February 2021. I continued to teach the lesson "Crime and Punishment". This lesson has humour ans some satirical elements which can make it interesting for the students. I started to refer more on dictionaries as I have to explain the meaning of words to my students. Th peer members are active in asking doubts and difficult words which helped me to improve myself. I received many positive feedback. I am so happy with the peer teaching as I was able to improve m self in grammatical knowledge, pronunciation, etc. 

Second Week Report of Teaching Practice

 The second week of teaching practice was from 8 February 2021. I decided to take the lesson "A Three Wheeled Revolution". It was an interview with Irfan Alam, an entrepreneur and it reveals about his life as an entrepreneur. It was the day when our teachers came for observing our class. I was slightly nervous, but I was ab;e to take the class very well. But I made a pronunciation mistake which I corrected on the next day. The first day I gave them certain information regarding the wealthiest entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, Elan Musk, Bill Gates, etc.They were really interested in understanding about them. 

The same lesson lasted till 15 February 2021. The whole week helped me to understand their interest towards audio visual aids and images. So I started to include many videos and images to attract their attention and it was a success. I used videos to make sure they understand the values received from the lesson. I am sure that, this lesson has made them to think about their own entrepreneur ideas and the importance of doing something that we love. They were interested to do word puzzles and small activities, so included entry activities that are beneficial for them. Sometimes they were not interested to do activities, especially to write. But I had to make them write so I gave them clues to write the answers and rewards were given to those who wrote well following all the rules of the activity. 

This week was very interesting as I learnt many things like to understand the difficulties of my students, understanding their interests and I was able to control the class well. 

First Week of Second Phase Teaching Practice

 The first week of our teaching practice was from 1 February 2021 to 5 February 2021.

Our teaching practice was for plus two students of GHSS Medical College. The first we introduced ourselves and mingled with the students of all batches. We gave them a clear idea about their chapters and English textbook. From the interaction we understood that they are not that familiar with plus two textbooks and they are not able to completely follow English language. 

On the second day, as planned before I decided to teach "3Ls of Empowerment". Students were excited and eager to listen to the class as I was the new student teacher. I presented the PPt and asked certain questions for which they interacted well. I was nervous at the beginning but O was able to do well. I was forced to use malayalam language as they are not able to completely follow English language. 

On the third day, I continued to teach the same lesson and included interesting activities to identify certain empowered women and begab to teach the lesson. I taught well using the PPT. It was good to listen to their ideas and slogans when I gave them time to prepare placards.

On the fourth day I took the next session of the same chapter which made them understand the importance of 'labour' in life. I explained the content and they shared their ideas about their dream job and interesting reasons for which they need a job. I was careful to clarify their doubts and pronunciation errors. I used audio visual aids to attract their attention. 

On the fifth day I taught the last portion of the same lesson which is leadership. It can be achieved through education and labour. They were able to identify some of the great leaders when I showed them their images. It was interesting and entertaining as some where guessing who it is😂. Ithe class went well in the first week and I am so happy with it.

First Week of Peer Teaching

 

On 28 January 2011 we started our peer teaching practice. Due to the pandemic situation and our teaching practice, our peer teaching was conducted through online. We were divided different groups. 

I started to take "On Killing A Tree" by Gieve Patel . On the first day we were lucky enough to take the peer teaching in our college itself. So I used charts and activity cards. Then the next  peer teaching was on 6th February 2021. I continued to teach the same poem for two days and it was finished. I used the audio visual aids and PPT to make the class interesting for the students. I gave them interesting activities to do and videos to watch and understand the values of the chapter. The next chapter was "Crime and Punishment" which created an extra interest in them. Because it was a chapter from the plus two class and none of them were quite familiar with plus two portions. So they were very eager to listen. My peer members were Fatima and Balu. I watched their peer teaching ans I was able to see the improvement. Because we were in the same peer group in the peer teaching practice of last semester. I continued to teach the lesson because it was a lengthy lesson. But each day I tried to include videos and to male  my PPT attractive so that their focus will not be faded. It was a good week. I got positive feedback and some negative feedback which will; be improved in the next week.

Second Phase Teaching Practice- Day 1

 Today was the first day of our teaching practice. We were divided into groups and were assigned with different schools. Athira Sreekumar, Reshma, Lakshmi, Keerthi, Mary Jaya, Aswathy, Akshaya, Sharon and me got an opportunity to take live classes in Government Higher Secondary School, Medical College. 

It was the first day and we were really nervous. It was our first time to teach in  a real school time settings. But the first day went well. We interacted with the students and we were able to understand their ability and certain weaknesses. 

Freshers Day Celebration

It was our duty to officially welcome our dearest juniors to our institution. We planned well and organised a welcome party for them. It was a well organised function. We really enjoyed each moment. Due to Covid, there was certain limitations, but we managed to make the function a grand success. The programme beginned with official meeting. Principal Dr. Preetha TL, Rev. Fr. Sony Sebastian, Vice Chairperson, Ladies representatives gave a wonderful speech as well as invited all of our freshers to join our Christ Nagar family. After that with the comparing of Parvathy and Nibin, we organised the unofficial welcome which was fun-filled and colourful. We are happy that, they are very energetic enthusiastic students who participated well in every small tasks given by us. 

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VENTEL Initiative - First step

As per the guidance provided by VENTEL initiative, our college divided us into various groups and asked us to choose convenient topics for vocational programme. Based on that, our group choose "Mask Making" and "Pickle production".

We performed both these tasks individually and to inform the authority, we prepared two video of both mask making and pickle making. It was a nice experience for all of us. 

Carrot Pickle Making Video

Mask Making Video

Project Work

SYNOPSIS

TITLE OF THE STUDY

 “Critical analysis of 8^th standard coursebook of Kerala syllabus”

 

INTRODUCTION

Education is essential in the present world to provide us a better living. An education system consists of both material as well as human resources. Important human resources are teachers and students. One of the most important material resources is text books. It is the major tool in the hands of teachers as well as the students. So a coursebook for each standard should be appropriate and it should help the students to improve their knowledge in that subject. That is why this research focuses on critically analysing the Part I, 8^th standard coursebook in Kerala syllabus.

 

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

In our education system teachers and students are essential parts. For every teacher as well as students a proper guidance and support is essential. Coursebook is considered as an effective tool for both of them. They support and guide students to a limit to learn more about the subject through lessons, exercises, morals, etc. So while constructing coursebook, the qualities should be ensured. This study helps to have an insight into the qualities of English coursebook.

The study is entitled as “Critical Analysis of 8^th standard coursebook of Kerala syllabus”

 

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The study has following objectives

·                     To identify the qualities of a good English coursebook.

·                     To critically analyse, whether the Part 1 English coursebook of 8^th standard possess the qualities of a good English coursebook.

 

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

·                     Whether the 8^th standard coursebook enhances English language learning?

·                     Whether English coursebook of 8^th standard satisfy qualities of a good English coursebook?

 

METHODOLOGY

Method: Document Research Method

Tool: Rating Scale

 

STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES USED

In this study, the researcher identified seven criteria and categorised the components inside each criteria. Based on ‘Science coursebook rating system’ created by Collette and Chiappetta, the researcher has created a self prepared tool to critically analyse an English coursebook. Then each component was rated from one to five points, based on its presence in the coursebook. The score of each component was calculated in each sessions to receive a partial score and then to evaluate the coursebook as a whole.

 

FINDINGS OF THE STUDY

The major findings of the study are:-

·  When all the rated scores for each component are calculated, the coursebook scored 242 out of 290, 

·  The results of the present study revealed that, the part I coursebook of 8^th standard is ‘Good’ according to the rating scale.

·  The coursebook has various good qualities of an English coursebook, but still need more improvement in various aspects.

· The results revealed that, when the criteria are analysed the most perfect score, 96% was assigned on illustrations of the coursebook.

· The results revealed that, the exercises scored only 72.85%, which needs be improved.

· The study helped to find that, the part I coursebook of 8^th standard include all the major seven criteria and the categories inside them. But many of them need improvements to become an excellent English coursebook.