8 JANUARY 2019

MY INNOVATIVE WORK

    An innovative work can be defined as a new idea, device or method. It is something original and  more effective and as a consequence it breaks into the pupil. It is necessary to create and nurture an environment of innovation. As a part of teaching practice session I opted an innovative work based on the chapter The Last Leaf by O. Henry. I converted the story into a dramatic version. The drama was enacted by the students. The presentation by the students are attached via CD.

    I had the following objectives in my mind while doing this work. They are as follows;

•   to develop the imagination and creativity in students
•   to foster critical thinking and problem- solving skills
•  to explore and evaluate ideas
•  to express feelings and interpreting the feelings of others
•  to enhance communication skills
•  to improve the literary skills  

                I opted the dramatic version as my innovative work because it is an outlet for self-expression and a way of learning. It is an effective learning tool because it involves the student intellectually, physically, socially, and emotionally. As the students themselves enacted the drama it helped their active participation in learning and made the class more lively. It provided more of a direct experience to students. At the same time drama helped students to get in touch with their creativity and spotaneity as well as to develop confidence in the expression of their ideas.

MY INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN

I opted an innovative lesson plan based on the same chapter The Last Leaf. I initially showed them a profile of the author through the chart and gave an introduction about the story and the main characters. After the introduction a video presentation of the drama  enacted by the students are shown to them. As it was enacted by their friends it captured the attention of the students and sustained the interest till the very end of the lesson. 
      After the presentation teacher make them silently read the lesson and clarified their doubts regarding meanings and asked some questions to check their comprehension. finally gave them an assignment.

5 SATURDAY, JANUARY 2019

 EIGHTH WEEK REFLECTION
(31/12/2018- 4/1/2019)

Though there were only a few working days during this week, I totally engaged with my students whenever I got free hours. It's the time to say goodbye to all my dear and near ones who stood with me right from the time I joined there. It was the last session of our teaching phase.I think I was able to accomplish my mission successfully. Though there were some obstacles in my way, I learned to overcome it with great confidence and my will power. This teaching sessions gave me new experiences and I learned to develop positive attitudes towards my life. When I visited the school for the first time I was too nervous and I didn't have any idea regarding class management and how to make students attentive in the class . But as days passed on I made up to change my teaching styles. Tried to interact with the students and created a sense of feeling in themselves  to consider me as one among them. Thereafter they tried to share their difficulties and problems with me. As a teacher I tried to console them with good remarks and boosted them up to face the challenges before them. The thing that I understood from my students was that they were very studious and hard working ones but they need a back support to be in the track. I got only three working days during this week because of hartal and a public holiday . I gave their answer sheets and taught them the sections most of them answered wrong and their teacher asked me to gave marks liberally.  I completed the entire portions assigned to me and even the portions apart from my lesson plan were also taught to them. 

                 On Friday I reached the school with a broken heart as it was my last day in the school. Students came to me and I was able to see  gloomy faces with tear filled eyes in front of me. That incident made me gloomy too. The love and care they had given  me was the only treasure that i kept in my mind and will be there till my last breath. They are my backbones. My students of 9.B will be always in my mind .The 22 gems who transformed me to some other level. The ones who taught me the lessons of love, care and the values of good teacher- student relationships. I learned new lessons from them. As a teacher I gave them some tips to lead a successful life and wished them all the very best from the bottom of my heart. On the same day 10.B students requested me to attend their class during the 4th period. I taught them some portions in English text book and the students maintained pin drop silence. I bid farewell to them and left the class. The respect and love from my students was the only output I expected from them and I am damn sure that they had given me the output more than my expectation. After the lunch break session I certified my records from the HM and my concerned teacher. I along with my colleagues went to say goodbye for all the cooperation and help given to us by the school management. By 4 I left the school campus with a heart filled with sweet memories of my students. On my way I heard the sounds of some of my students calling out my name from far off distances and some waving hands at me. I left the school campus with a reformation and I too felt the changes I had undergone within myself. Missing my school days and my students I made up my mind to be a good teacher and now  I am back to my college.

22 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2018

SEVENTH WEEK REFLECTION
(17/12/2018-21/12/2018)

This week I had examination duty on two days. On 17th December Dhanya and me had duty on room no. 2. The majority of the students in the class are boys. 9th standard have Social Studies and 10th had Maths exam. The Social Studies exam was difficult. Most of the students face seems to be disappointed after seeing the question paper. Majority of the questions were from the first term. Their teacher came and explained the difficult questions to them. One of the boys of 9th standard kept copy and the teacher finded it and write on the answer sheets that it was copy. In the afternoon we had duty on room no. 1. The eighth standard had Maths exam. The English medium students asked me so many doubts as they find it difficult to understand the meaning of certain questions amd I clarified their doubts. 
     
                 I completed my MCQ of our optional this week as we got  and wrote the conscientization programme report. Teacher gave us the answer sheets  to correct and asked us to return it back after the Christmas vacation.  Students were all in a happy mood that their Christmas vacation starts this week. The school closed on 21 December for the Christmas vacation. Children gave us sweets and cake as a part of their celebration. i felt very happy this week  that I chose teaching as my profession because we receive such a kind of love and respect from our dear children.  

15 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2018

 SIXTH WEEK REFLECTION

(10/12/2018- 14/12/2018)

 The Christmas exam started this week. On the first day that is on 11 December  I had examination duty. the exam started at 10 a.m. Chippy and me had duty on room no 1. It was a highly congested class with not enough benches and desks. It was the first time in my life that i was standing as an invigilator for examination duty. The teacher asked me to sign the answer sheets of students and we distributed the question paper at the right time. Actually it was little bit boring to stand simply in the examination hall. In the afternoon session I had duty on room no 2 and only 8 standard had examination in the afternoon. The boys were  disturbing and they had so many doubts. Finally their teacher scolded them. But it was a totally new experience for me. On 12 December 9th standard have English exam.  I was tensed whether the questions were easy or difficult. But with God's grace the questions were easy as most of them were the same as we put for the achievement test. The grammar session was also  very easy. My students told me that they wrote well. On 14th  December because of hartal the  exam was postponed. 
  
                      Because of exams I didn't have much duty this  week. So we get time to finish our college works. So the week went smoothly and happily without much tensions and problems.

8 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2018

FIFTH WEEK REFLECTION

(3/12/2018- 7/12/2018)

This week we had a very tight schedule as we had to conduct the achievement test, diagnostic test and to do the conscientisation programme. We had to revise the whole portion before the Christmas examination  which is going to be conducted the next week. On 3 Decemeber I completed the activities in the textbook. This week I completed my thirty lesson plans. On 5 December I conducted the achievement test . Sudheesh gave first two hours and I successfully conducted it. Most of the boys were quite disturbing but somehow I managed the class. The problem with the children is that they don't even know how to read the question paper. Till the very end of the exam they were asking doubts. Their teacher told me to explain the question in Malayalam. It was like  most of them wrote the exam for my sake. But majority of  girls wrote the exam sincerely.On the same day Vijayan sir came to observe our Physical Education classes. He corrected our two lesson plans in this semester.  One based on yoga and the other based on health education. My yoga lesson plan was on Tadasana. I have chosen this  because it was very simple and beneficial for our health. And I have selected obesity for my health education as it was one of the burning issue that our young generation is facing today. The answer sheets of the boys were very poor which was full of grammar and spelling mistakes.

          

                                          On 6 December we conducted the conscientisation programme. As our God's own country recently faced one of the serious disaster I had chosen the topic "Disaster Management". In the morning itself students came with their charts on various disasters and newspaper cuttings. We arranged it on the Physics  lab. The programme started at 1:30 p.m. Students occupied their seats at the right time and the school HM Rajendran sir came to inaugurate the function and the girls'representative Miss Divya T delivered the welcome speech and the awareness class begins with a general introduction on disaster followed by the different disaster and then the concept disaster management is clearly explained with its different phases. Then the precautions and preventive measures to be taken when a disaster hits were clearly dealt with. Students actively responded as it was more of an interactive session and the valuable contribution from their side were also invited. Finally a feedback session was conducted and the students gave positive feedback as they said that the video presentation was very effective and heart touching. 

                     

 I conducted the diagnostic test on this  week and the students  performed well. The test was mainly based on the grammar portion as  most of them wrongly answered the grammar section for the achievement test.  In the diagnostic test majority of them answered wrongly for the preposition session. So on December 7 I conducted a remedial teaching based on the topic prepositions using a game named "Simon says" and by using  many real-life examples and finally gave them an activity to complete a worksheet on prepositions. They performed well and then I conducted a test again to test their comprehension. The test showed that the class was effective.

                      Apart from the busy and tight schedule it was a nice week.

            

1 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2018

FOURTH WEEK EXPERIENCE
26/11/2018-30/11/2018


This week also Anna ma'am came for observation on 27 November Tuesday. I took the poem Another Chance by Helen Steiner Rice . I showed the video of a frog in the well as entry activity. It was an interesting animated video.  My students enjoyed the video a lot. after my observation they asked me to show them the video once more. After the facilitation I explained the meaning of difficult words using pictures, flash cards and real life situations. They comprehended the meaning very well. I asked them to find out the rhyming words from the poem as group activity. My students responded well. I was completely satisfied with my class and my teacher gave positive comments to me.

Entry activity of the poem Another Chance 

 I was happy that my three  observations went smoothly. This week there was the programme of JRC in the school. 

JRC members of Jawahar H.S Ayur

It was nice to see them in their white uniform with cap. The assembly conducted by 9 B girls was very good. The teachers appreciated them for the assembly. The host who presented the assembly performed well. They also awarded the prize for those who answered in the quiz competition on the spot itself. It was a nice idea. This week I completed 20 lesson plans and teach my children some basics of grammar.  I taught them phrasal verbs and its uses. I was confused that whether my children could grab the topic as the grammar session were usually dry and boring.  But my children cooperated with me a lot and I could handle the topic nicely. We were all in hurry as we have only few left as the exams were fast approaching and we have to complete a lot of works before 21 December. So we constructed the questions for the achievement test and asked my students to choose a topic which they liked more for the conscientisation programme. 

25 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2018

THIRD WEEK EXPERIENCE
19/11/2018- 24/11/2018

During this week our optional teacher Anna ma'am and general teacher Susan
 ma'am came for observation. Anna ma'am came on 19 Monday. This week I started a new chapter The Last Leaf  by the famous  author O. Henry. Like his other stories this story is also known for the O Henrian twist or surprise endings. It is a heart touching story. It is all about the power of friendship,  hope, love, sacrifice, optimism, and care. This is one of my favourite stories . The message that the story conveys is that even the smallest sacrifice can not only have a great price but can accomplish great good. On Monday morning I have completed the chapter
The Jungle Air Crash and decided to take The Last Leaf for my observation. Anna ma'am came on 1:30 and she observed my class. After creating the initial  rapport with my students through informal talk and a warm up session as it was afternoon I showed them a video of the song from the movie Three Idiots starred by Amir Khan which shows how care and motivation could help one to recover from any serious illness. As it was a song my students were interested and listened to the video carefully. They cooperated with me very well and i was satisfied with my class. I got positive comments from my teacher and I was very happy. On 21 Wednesday Susan ma'am came to observe our class. I took the remaining portion of the chapter The Last Leaf . She also gave me positive comments . The only thing she pointed out to me to was to improve my blackboard writing though it is good. the problem is that the blackboard of my class was not good. This week a new programme was introduced in our school namely the Malayalathilakkam. As the name indicates it was for improving the students skills in Malayalam. Students who are backward in class of 8th and 9th are included in the programme. They were given pencil, book, paper, pen and crayons. Games were  also included.  They were asked to read, write, draw and sing. Most the students were happy to sit in the class. They were shown videos of stories also. We luckily get the opportunity to be a part of the programme.  
                        
                                This week Saturday was a working day as Tuesday was  a holiday. As the  teacher in charge of the Malayalathilakkam was on leave we were asked to look after the class. There were many students who drew very well.