The Educational Ecstasy

 As part of B.Ed. curriculum, a video script is prescribed for the student teachers. Preparing a script enables us to communicate the message in a crisp and clear way. Script is considered the skeleton of any video. A script allows to plan and design the overall structure of the educational video. For this process, our teacher educator divided the students into two groups.  Our group consisted of 7 members and we decided to adopt the short story 'Horegallu' written by Sudha Murty. The first step was to decide the location and the scenes we could do within our limitations. We planned a proper framework and moved on to the script work. We assigned roles to each one and made the list of costumes and properties needed for the same. The whole shooting was shot using an iphone. The script consisted of 3 scenes. Altogether, the experience of script writing and shooting provided us with new insights, knowledge and experiments and also the editing process made us more aware of the tech...

  As part of B.Ed. curriculum, field trip is prescribed for the student teachers. In the course of the second semester, we went Kerala Arts and Crafts Village, Vellar. It is a place dedicated to craft, art and artisanship. The village celebrates the rich, diverse and multifarious craft traditions of South Asia. It spread across 8.5 acres in the beautiful village of Vellar, near Kovalam. It is a place to showcase the skills and talents of the artisans of various regions. The place exhibits the major arts and crafts of almost all states of India. It serves a major tourist attraction.   It was really a great opportunity for the prospective teachers to visit this amazing world of arts and crafts. It opened to us a realm of different varieties of arts and crafts which mesmerized us through its beauty. We were also astonished by the makers of those arts and were eager to see the manufacturing of some. On a whole, the trip was an eye opener to the world of arts and crafts of various ...

 As part of B.Ed. curriculum, during the first and second semesters, we had to do ten discussion lesson plans. Our teacher educator divided the whole class into 3 study circles. Our group consisted of 4 members and all of us actively participated in the discussions. Discussion lesson plans are intented to arouse divergent thinking possibilities and to create the best lesson plans. Our teacher educator provided exact guidelines and clear cut explanation regarding the preparation of lesson plans and highlighted the importance of lesson plan in teaching successfully. We wrote three constructivist lesson plans and two behaviorist lesson plans during the first semester. In the second semester, we wrote lesson plans on different models, they are Direct instruction model, Advance Organizer model and Concept Attainment model. The rest of the two lesson plans are activity lesson plan and ICT based one.

Socially Useful Productive Work is a purposive productive work and services related to the needs of the community, which will be proved meaningful to the learner. It was introduced in 1978, by the Ministry of Education to promote Gandhian values and educational ideas of Mahatma Gandhi. In addition to developing individual skills, SUPW helps in developing among the students the habit to work as a community. As part of B.Ed. curriculum, SUPW is regarded as an important work and all the student teachers prepared their various works. As part of SUPW, I made four different flower pots using plastic bottles of soft drinks, soda etc. The reason why I chose plastic bottles is because it takes upto atleast 1000 years for every single water bottle to decompose. 80% of the plastic water bottles end up in landfills. There are some shocking truths behind the accumulation of plastic bottles. It is really impossible for us to stop using plastic bottles, but the only way is to reduce the use by recycl...

  "THERE IS NO FRIEND AS LOYAL AS A BOOK" - Ernest Hemingway As part of B.Ed. curriculum, field visits are prescribed for each semesters. The English Optional student teachers visited the Kerala Niyamasabha as the book festival KLIBF was held there. Firstly, we went to the legislative assembly hall, we were seated on the gallery opened for the public. It is built in the classical style of architecture of Kerala. An information assistant gave us the details regarding the history, architecture, furniture, the seats allotted to various persons and officials.   The Kerala Legislature International Book Festival is one of the unique events, which was born out of the cherished cultural and literary traditions followed in the State of Kerala. It is conceptualized as part of the year long centenary celebrations of the Kerala Legislature Library, the KLIBF bears the imprint of the literary landscape. KLIBF was a perfect choice for the language student teachers' field visit. We cam...