WEEKLY REFLECTION - FOURTH SEMESTER

16/11/16-18/11/16

As per B.Ed. curriculum, our fourth semester school internship program for thirty days started today. I got class 9 for teaching. The concerned teacher assigned me to take 1st chapter of the 4th unit. Dawn of hope. I covered first 3 lesson templates of the chapter using both charts and power point presentation. Power point presentation was more effective than the other two classes. Pupils were very eager to learn the lesson and they showed great interest.

21/11/16-25/11/16

I am lesson was glad to see that they responded well, when I asked questions from the previous portion. They were very curious to know the rest of the story. This increased their interest to learn the lesson and they interacted well with the teacher.  When I checked their notebooks, I found some of the books were incomplete and I warned them strictly to complete it.

28/11/16-2/12/16

In this week I completed The Jungle Air crash and started a new poem Another Chance. They felt sympathy for Julian at the end of the story by hearing her pathetic situation. All textual activities were completed. I felt a satisfaction after completing the lesson. The introductory part of the poem Another Chance was a power point presentation. The picture which I showed generated ideas and they shared their view before the class. The poem will help them overcome difficulties in their future life.

3/1/17-6/1/17

After the x'mas vacation I started a new chapter The Last Leaf by O.Henry. I tried to evoke the power of hope among them through this chapter. I completed first 4 lesson templates in this week. Daily I checked their knowledge about the previous class. Most of the students answered the questions clearly. I found that some student lacked the confidence to answer in English.

9/1/17- 13/1/17

I got 4 class this week and completed next 4 lesson templates of The Last Leaf. For the better understanding of this lesson I used sufficient teaching aids. In this week I conducted a diagnostic test in a substitutions period. In order to diagnose their area of difficulties.

16/1/17-20/1/17

In this week I completed The Last Leaf and entered into a new chapter Nandita Das' Newtons Law. After completing The Last Leaf I think they understood the power of hope, value of friendship, trust, sacrifice etc. Newton's Law is a humorous account of Nanditha Das' awful childhood experience. Pupils enjoyed the class because of the humorous elements in it.

23/1/17-28/1/17

In this week I started the second chapter of the next unit Enlightening minds. I took only the first three paragraphs of this chapter because of the lack of time and also I have to take three models of teaching after this classes. The first model I took was Concept attainment model, and I taught affixes using this model. Adjectives were taught using Advance organizer model. For the Role Play Model I took the chapter The Making of a Scientist. The classes were very interesting and I think it was more beneficiary than normal classes. In this week we celebrated Republic Day to inculcate national spirit and respect for the country in the students.

30/1/17-31/1/17

I completed all the intended lesson templates and also conducted an achievement test based on the chapter The Last Leaf and Another chance. This week teaching practice section came to an end. We expressed our sincere gratitude to the Head master and other teachers for their support and cooperation.

CONSCIENTATION PROGRAMME

CONSCIENTISATION PROGRAMME

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION

     The term ‘disaster’ meaning, ‘the bad star’ in Latin, is defined as an impact of a natural or manmade hazard that causes human suffering or creates human needs that alleviate without assistance. The word root is from astrology and implies that when the stars are in a bad position, a bad news or event is about to happen.

Man is concurring an environment for fulfilling his need, similarly he knows that it causes decay in natural resources. Though he knows it, he is avoiding the importance of nature in his life. Due to lack of natural resources, there arise global warming. We can see the effect of global warming on living things. Hence natural and manmade hazards are appearing as challenges.

Good environment education, like various awareness classes for protecting nature, must lead students out and on from their immediate perceptions and to a wider understanding. It must develop their capacity. Pupils must learn about natural phenomena in order to understand complex environmental matters.

There are a lot of environmental problems which are related to natural disasters and manmade disasters like earthquake, floods, drought, tsunami etc. Students should know that how and why these hazards appear; its impact and its preventive and mitigation measures. Individuals’ right kind of awareness about disasters as well as disaster management are essential for the welfare of any nation.

OBJECTIVES

*To develop an awareness about disaster management.

*To make them aware of different disasters and its effects on environment.

*To give an awareness about different preventive techniques of disaster.

*To make them aware of different precautions to be taken before a disaster.

ORGANISATION OF ACTIVITIES

                   The prospective teachers conducted the class on the topic ‘Disaster Management’ on 30/1/2017. The team selected this topic after identifying its importance in the present scenario. They decided to conduct the class on the students of the class 8 D and 8 E and they co-operated well.

                   The program started with a solemn prayer by a student, Athira .T. Mathew, teacher trainee from English option welcomed everyone, who were present there for the programe. Johnson .K. George, the headmaster of M.K.L.M.H.S.S Kannanallor inagurated the programe. In this speech, he shared his views about the topic and also adviced the students to make use of the class. Mrs. Shuhana, social science teacher delivered the felicitation. The team divided the topic into different sections. The introductory part was taken by Thasni.B she made a brief explanation on the topic by point out what is disaster management and what are the different kinds of disasters. Shifina Saifudeen, teacher trainee from English option showed a video about different disasters and its effects on environment.It was very effective and and the students showed great interest to listen the class and shifina teacher alaso gave a brief explanation to the video.The following part was about the detail explanation of various disasters like, earthquake, drought, wildfire, tsunami, tornados, land sliding, storm, flood, volcanos etc. The teacher trainees Reenu.S.suresh , Sharanya.S , Shifina Saifudeen and Shameema gave detailed explanation of each disasters , its aftereffects. After that, Athira continued the section by explaining the part of students in disaster management. What they can do as a student by giving awareness to illiterate people about disaster management, publishing notices about it ,fund raising, emotional support etc. The concluding section was taken by Thasni. B she recapitulates the whole class briefly and take an oath.Then the students were asked to write their feedback about the class.The section came to an end with a pledge and a vote of thanks delivered by a student. She expressed her sincere gratitude to the headmaster, the B Ed teacher trainees and all the students for their kind co-operation.

FEEDBACK

                        The prospective teacher were able to conduct the class effectively, according to the students. The student’s in their feedback stated that they understood deeply about the topic disaster management. Some of the student’s mentioned that, before this class they have little idea about what are the steps one have to follow during and after a disaster happen. They pointed out the video which showed in between the class was very informative

FINDINS AND SUGGESTIONS

                 *Conducting awareness classes in the school, helps the students to get an idea about disaster management.

                    *Give the students an awareness about the precautions that have taken for preventing disasters.

                    *Teachers and students should also know about various institutes of disaster management and their functions.

                    *Teacher’s should be trained for different techniques for disaster management.

                    *Make the students move aware of different disasters and its impact on environment.

                    *Government should renewed curriculum with content of disaster management.

CONCLUSION

                            The class conducted by the team on “Disaster Management” made an impact on the students. The students were able to understand class in the proper sense. The class added additional points to their knowledge and helped them to manage disasters effectively.

INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN

Name of the teacher trainee            : Athira T Mathew

Name of the School                            : M K L M HSS

Name of the supervising teacher     : Mrs. Ambili R

Subject                                                  : English

Unit                                                       : IV, Dawn of Hope

Unit                                                       : The Jungle Air Crash

Issue                                                     : Power of Hope

Social issue                                          : Inspiration, Optimism, compassion, Trust etc.

 SUMMARY OF THE PARAGRAPH:

The Jungle Air Crash is written by Juliane koepcke. She is a German Biologist, who is best known as the sole survivor of 1971 air crash. The Jungle Air Crash was an extract from her memoir When I fell from the sky. It is a true account of horrifying experience and her miraculous escape of a sixteen year old girl, Juliane Koepcke. She loved flying very much. She decided to celebrate Christmas with her father. In the aircraft, she sat beside her mother. Everything seemed normal. All the passengers were happy.

NEW VOCABULARY

1.Ecologist- one who studies about environment.

2. Ornithologist- one who studies about birds.

3.Aisle- a passage between rows of seats in an aircraft.

4. stewardess- a women employed to look after the passengers on an aircraft.

5.Horizon- line at which earth’s surface and the sky appear to meet.

CURRICULAR OBJECTIVES: The learner,

                                                  1) faces the challenges of life with confidence.

                                                  2) evolves strategies inorder tp come out of a difficult situation.

                                                  3) manages disasters effectively

BASIC KNOWLEDGE:  The learner,

                                                 1) has heard about plane crash

                                                 2) knows the power of hope

TEACHING AIDS      : Course book, Source book, ICT

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY                                                  EXPECTED RESPONSE                                          RATIONAL         INTRODUCTION       Teacher opens up the conversation which          Pupils interacted with great interest creates a rapport with the students       Teacher creates as mental readiness in pupils By asking some questions related to previous  class              .Would you like to travel in plane?                       Pupils listened carefully and answered in     Skill of speaking        . Have ever travelled in it?                                     their own words      . Have you ever heard about air crashes and        Its aftermath?     Then the teacher shows them a picture of           Pupils listened carefully and shared their    Skill of listening and speaking a air crash and asks them to share their views          ideas and ideas     Then the teacher said that “Today we are            Pupils generated curiosity to learn the going to listen to a story of a sixteen year old girl   lesson and how she handled a dangerous situation of a plane crash with her will power and determination”      Teacher writes the title and the author’s name  on the black board     THE JUNGLE AIR CRASH – juliane kopecke JULIANE KOPECKE Ccc    fa

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ESSON PLA

PRESENTATION Model reading by the teacher with students’       Pupils listened attentively with closed         Skill of listening                 closed textbooks                                                         text books Model reading by the teacher with students’       Pupils listened and reads the text                 Skill of listening and reading open text books Teacher makes the students read at randomly   one or two students reads and other           Skill of loud reading, silent                                                                                                                                                                   reading and listening skills. Then the teacher gives the summary of the        Pupils listened carefully                                   Skill of listening            paragraph taken. Then the teacher asks the students to read        Pupils read silently and clarified their           Skill of silent reading                                                          each sentence and share their findings with their counterparts Then the teacher helps the learners to                         the glossary and find out the meaning of difficult words and provide them with situation and teaching aids to get the right meaning of the words.  Teacher shows picture slides to give clues to    Pupils listened carefully                                  Skill of listening. different words and make the students to arrive at its meaning by themselves with the use of power point presentation. Then the teacher asked some questions             Pupils answered the questions in their         Skill of listening and speaking related to the paragraph taken                             own words.  1. who is the author of the story?  2. what was the occupation of juliane’s      parents?

ESSON PLA

3. why was there a holiday mood on the plane? DISCORSE CONSTRUCTION  Then the teacher asks the pupils to be in groups   Pupils engaged in group activity         Skill of listening And write the profile of Juliane Koepcke.               Then the teacher directs each group to present  their products. Teacher helps to edit it.  Teacher presents her own version of the answer    Pupils listened attentively                    Skill of listening  and present it as a power point presentation. SUMMARIZING Teacher gives the summary of the paragraph        Pupils listened attentively                     Skill of listening taken as recapitulation. ASSIGNMENT Write a newspaper report on plane crash?