The Educational Ecstasy

 After Onam vacation, classes commenced on 23rd of September. We had a lot of works to do as part of our papers. The Teacher Educator divided us into various groups and gave us topics for practical and conscientization. My group did practical work on the topic Communication skills. I have given an idea of the process of communication and tips to be a good communicator. We planned a small activity for the students. The activity was to talk about a topic from a list of topics given. Five students participated and we selected three of them. Later we distributes the prizes. The other team also did a program on creative thinking.  There was an awareness class program called Swachatha hi Seva by Swach Bharath Mission. Students of 8th , 9th and 10th were taken for this awareness class. That was a good awareness class on the harmful effects of using plastic and the ways to reduce it. They provided waste baskets to school and instructed students to reduce the plastic usage. There was a...

 As part of B.Ed. curriculum, practicum work is prescribed in the second semester in the paper Techno pedagogic Content Knowledge. Practicum work can be defined as the practical application of knowledge in an area of study.  The topic I got for the study was impact of language games on vocabulary enrichment among secondary school students. Language games usage among secondary school students is a controversial issue among educators and parents. Inorder to check the present day language needs of the students we should know more about the impact language games have on them. According to the study, educational games endorses student centered learning. It brings together educational content, learning principles and computer games. Linguistic games emphasize on accuracy. Actually games have an excessive academic value and it can be used in the classroom to make the learners use the language in place of thinking about learning the right forms. It inspire learners to work together, b...

 This was the last week before the Onam vacation. This week, as usual we all did several duties including examination duties, noon feed duty, arranging answer sheets, distribution of question papers etc. Some of us were given the duty of arranging textbooks of Std 8,9, and 10.   We arranged the textbooks according to the classes and handed it to the students.  We had a vibrant Onam celebration on 13 th of September. As the students had examination, we arranged athapookalam and also distributed paalpayassam to the students. 

 The third week marked the commencement of Onam examination. We were assigned several duties related to the conduct of examination such as counting question paper, distribution of question paper, collecting answer sheets and counting it. We did the exam duty with great enthusiasm.  I was also given the charge of maintaining discipline during the morning session among the UP school section.  There was a small sale of khadi dresses conducted by the khadi board on Thursday. 

 The week 2 of teaching practice consisted of only three days because of the public holidays like Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi, Sree Krishna Jayanthi and Ayyankali Jayanthi. Since the number of working days were less I took substitution periods and completed almost 6 lesson plans. I completed the lesson 'The Little Round Red House' and started with the activities of the same. As per the instructions given by the concerned teacher, I started with the activities of the lesson 'The Shipwrecked Sailor'. The week was a little hectic one due to lots of substitution periods as there was DEO visit. We were given the complete charge of maintaining discipline both inside and outside the class. Students are busy with the upcoming Onam exams which is scheduled to begin on 3rd of September. The HM mentioned that most probably we would be given exam duties. I started preparing for the next set of lesson plans that are to be taken after the Onam vacation.