Good bye to January...

As we say goodbye to January, let us remember to enjoy the good times and fill our mind with gratitude.

 Today first session was dealt by our principal Benedict sir.  

In this class Benedict sir made us aware of the duties we have to do in the coming weeks. 

1.School Induction

2.Classroom video observation (both Indian and foreign) 

3.Micro level teaching

4.Lesson plan template

Then he put forward four basic questions in teaching.

" Why I have to teach?

"What I have to teach?

"How I have to teach?

Sir also encouraged us to keep a five subject notebook so that we have a systematic note with us. 

Book referred by Benedict sir which will help in our B.Ed life.  

It was really an interesting session. Then the next session was optional. Today we started our review session of reading and reflection. All the students presented very well. We get many ideas about some of the important books.

                             Then the next session was dealt by Ancy teacher. Teacher gave a brief explanation about organizing a class room. Then teacher taught us about different stages in Adolescence age.

Online mode...

 Morning session began with Joju sir class which dealt with teaching aids. Sir taught us the characteristics and classification of teaching aids. And made us familiar to various teaching aids.

 Ancy ma'am taught us about the emotional, intellectual and language development of early childhood. Also gave a brief idea regarding later childhood and the related factors.

In the last session, our Neena ma'am taught us about teaching-learning process, it's principles,nature and characteristics. And we went through the maxims of teaching. Ma'am also discussed about the four pillars of learning based on UNESCO and they are:

Assignment #408

Assignment # 408

As a science teacher, prepare an outline for any project to promote scientific attitude .

Scientific attitude is composition of mental habits or tendencies to react consistently in certain ways in a novel or problematic situations. These habits or tendencies include accuracy, open mindedness, intellectual honesty, suspended judgment and habit of looking for true cause and effect relationships.

A teacher plays the most important role in the development of scientific attitude among students.

Here is my plan as a teacher to develop scientific attitude among my students...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ru_R3eMITBXs5O1RJIz03i7bF1o5t3Iw/view?usp=drivesdk

Beginning of online mode...

  The classes turned online considering the present situation.  It's wise to have online classes for our safety.

The first hour of the day was optional. Neena ma'am detailed about the categories in a content analysis.

The next hour was handled by Gibi ma'am. The class started with a beautiful prayer by Ami. Ma'am have done a quick review of the syllabus and division of seminar topics . Later we had discussion on various schools of Psychology. 

# Structuralism

#Functionalism

# Behaviourism

#Psycho analytical school etc

The last hour was handled by Maya ma'am. The class continued on idealism. 

Ma'am taught us about idealism,role of a teacher, methods of teaching and limitations of idealism. Some methods of teaching are : 

* lecture method

* discussion method

* questioning method

* Socratic dialoguing

The three gunas of life became an interesting topic and Maya ma'am ended the class with the explanation of Santhi mantra.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

 - Albert Einstein

Learning is the desirable modification of behaviour...

 LEARNING IS THE DESIRABLE MODIFICATION OF BEHAVIOUR...

HEALTH CHART

Dr. George Thomas sir gave us an idea regarding how to prepare a health chart.

 

The health chart should contain the following things as shown below.

Name

Age

Height

Weight

BMI = Weight(Kg)/ Height in m^2

Waist  Hip Ratio

Heart rate 

Blood pressure

Cholesterol

BEHAVOURISM

Next was optional hour handled by Dona Ma'am.Dona ma'am taught us about the behaviourist approach put forward by  John. B Watson, father of behaviourism,(Stimulus response reaction).Then classical conditioning by Pavlov, Operant conditioning by Skinner( positive and negative reinforcement , positive and negative punishment).And discussed about the educational implications of conditioning like it can help teachers to develop desirable habits, interests and attitudes in children. After the session Dr. Neena ma'am posed a question that ,as teacher what would you prefer ( positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment or negative punishment)? And the anwers were given by the student teachers in whatsapp group. 

PHASES OF TEACHING AND BASIC TEACHING MODEL

Today our respected principal Dr.K.Y Benedict sir taught us about phases of teaching. It mainly consists of 3 phases- pre-active phase, interactive phase and post-active phase. Pre-active phase is the preparatory time which involves organisation of learning lessons, creating class room environment, enabling software access, checking entry behaviour and so on. Pre-active phase is important to decide the performance of a teacher.Interactive phase is an active session which gives realisation about the pre-active phase.  Post active phase is the reflection section held immediately after the class. It mainly includes self reflection, verbal feedback, self assessment, interrogation and analysing how the performance of the teacher impacted on pupils. 

Basic teaching model developed by Glazer explains the relation between teaching and learning. This can be classified as entry behaviour, interaction process, terminal behaviour and feedback.

Entry behaviour is the sum total of attitude, knowledge, interest, talents, skills, values, competency processed by the learning. 

Interaction process add new informations to his current knowledge and enlighten the minds of the pupil with new thoughts.

Terminal behaviour is the sum total of knowledge , skills , interest at the end of the closing section.

Learning is nothing but modification of behaviour.( Terminal behaviour- Entry behaviour)

Reading and Reflection...

 READING AND REFLECTION

READING IS A PASSPORT TO COUNTLESS ADVENTURES..

Reading is the gateway skill that make all other learning possible..

 " Brief Answers to Big Questions" is one of the best book on science by one of the best professor, Stephen Hawking. A man who had many difficult phase in his life but overcamed it and became one of the best. Reading it created my interest to exlpore science. Thankful to prof Stephen Hawking for sharing the research with everyone.

Here is my small review when I travelled through this great piece of work . 

Link to the same is provided below👇

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oSF1ir0-BTOW4STDj-qzRH8QzrEsLmtW/view?usp=drivesdk

Schools of philosophy..

 In the first hour Maya ma'am taught us about the schools of philosophy which is related to different thoughts. That are

# Idealism

# Naturalism

#Realism

# Pragmatism

Then Ma'am detailed about idealism, it's characteristics and aims in education. It is based on truth, beauty and goodness. Idealism mainly focus on the welfare of the individual and for the good of the society.

The next hour was taken by Gibi ma'am. She continued the topic scope of educational psychology. In that we had come across two variables of educational psychology and they are learning process and learning method. Also ma'am slightly discussed about the cognitive developmental theories formulated by Piaget, Bruner and Gagne.

"Anything can be taught anybody in any level of development in an intellectually honest manner"~ Bruner

Last hour was handled by our  Neena ma'am and she assigned us topics for seminar, assignments and provided an idea regarding the observation of video lesson. 

Online mode with the vibes of offline...

 Today the first session was technology class of Joju sir. Revathy teacher taught about Mobile learning, podcasts, vodcast and web learning and its scope in education. The class was very interactive and active.Beyond the syllabus the discussion goes on to wide directions and improved our understanding about computer and mobile mediated learning. 

Students and Joju sir express our heartly comments and love at the end of the class..we will her best of luck for her bright future🌟🌟🌟

Every one share there feedbacks too...

*National integration 🇮🇳

Maya ma'am started the class by giving an introduction to National integration and various factors influencing the integrity of people in a nation. Then shabana teacher continued the session by explaining about definition, Obstacles, factors etc in national integration and how education can be used to strengthen national integration. 

*psycho social development and educational implications. 

Sathyalekha teacher continued Erickson's theory of psycho social development. Teacher taught about remaining stages of development and importance of Erickson's theory in education. 

                                      

Every day brings a new message...

 Today first session was dealt by Sathya lekha teacher in the presence of Ancy teacher. The class starts with a beautiful prayer song by jeena. Teacher taught us about Erickson's theory of social development. Teacher explained four stages of social development. The class was so interesting.

                      Next session was optional session. Teacher gave a detailed and adorable explanation about Lecture cum demonstration method. The main purposes of this method is

To convey information

To generate understanding

To stimulate interest

            Teacher explained a quote which was really interesting. The quote of Confusious.

                    "I see and I forget

                  I see and I remember

                  I do and I understand"

It was a real quote and we already experienced in our real life. The session was really inspiring and engrossing. After that Neena teacher share a video about the topic. The different steps of demonstration method.

                 After that Dona teacher handled the class. Teacher taught us about Emotional intelligence. The four steps are

Self awareness 

Self management

Social awareness

Relationship management.

        The class ended at 12.30 pm.

Without philosophy education would be a blind effort...

 After many days, I was very happy to see Maya Teacher and Joju Sir. Miss shared with us the sadness of not being able to see in person. Today a new chapter started. Philosophical base of knowledge and curriculum. Ma'am taught us about what is philosophy, fields of philosophy, the relationship between education and philosophy etc.

" Without philosophy education would be a blind effort and without education philosophy would be cripple."

Next session was taken by Revathy ma'am. She taught us about computer stimulation, blended learning etc. Then Joju sir gave us some informations about online assignment and seminar presentation.

Afternoon session was dealt by Dona teacher. She discussed about the qualities of a science Teacher. Everyone actively presented their ideas.

Learning together, even when we are apart....

 LEARNING TOGETHER, EVEN WHEN WE ARE APART....

Today was the second day of our online classes. We had classes of Satyalekha teacher and Gibi teacher.

Satyalekha teacher taught us the components of effective classroom communication.  Class itself showed an example for effective class room communication...Ancy Ma'am was also present in the class and she was very happy to meet us all.

Gibi teacher discussed the scope of Educational Psychology and she introduced us to a new therapy- Mm-hmm therapy which was really interesting. The term was new for us  but in reality all of us apply this therapy in our life. While we listen to others we use Mm-hmm, and listening to them.

Then Gibi teacher explained the role of id ego, ego, and superego. Id ego results an immediate impulse , ego causes for a reality analysis and super ego causes an ethical analysis in a particular situation.

Then the third session was taken by Revathy teacher. Teacher taught us about Interdependence of teaching and learning and learning environment. It was a beautiful interactive session. 

We don't use technology, we live technology...

LEARNING TOGETHER, EVEN WHEN WE ARE APART....

Online classes started today. 

Classes were from 9am -12.30pm.

We had two hours of General classes and one hour of optional class. 

Learning through online class is a different experience😃. 

First session was taken by Dona teacher. She taught us 'Intelligence test' continuing the previous portion. 

Next session was our optional class. Revathy teacher handled the session . Teacher explained about Sustainable development.

“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

After that the third session was taken by Shabana teacher. She taught us the life history of Dr S Radhakrishnan and then explained his views in the meaning and aims of education. 

Thus first day of online classes gone very well even at the time of this pandemic. 

"It is not that we use technology 

                 but we live technology. "

It's all in the mind....

 Live in the moment,make every moment meaningful, mindful, and worthful".

Today, January 12 is celebrated as national youth day and it is the birthday of Swami Vivekananda.  The theme for National Youth Day 2022 is “ IT'S ALL IN THE MIND ”

  The day began with assembly. Today's assembly was led by Natural science optional. The arrangements were very nice. Assembly was started with college anthem. Then there was a prayer song. After that there was news reading. Then importance of the day, week..... etc. The most inspired thing is that the 19 students in Natural science optional were participated in the assembly.

 Gibi ma'am published their logo and conveyed beautiful message.

"We must be like Phoenix bird during this crisis and should fly from ash."

Then in optional hour Dona Ma'am taught about nano technology, bioinformatics and geo informatics.

Shabana ma'am taught us "Role of education & importance of society in education " We conducted a group discussion. After the discussion Vivek, Athira & Nithin gave an explanation. 

Dona ma'am discussed about the topic Intelligence tests. Arunthathi & Bharat shared more points.

The class ended by afternoon because of the spread of COVID pandemic. And announced that tomorrow onwards the online class will be conducted. 

Time for the Christmas friend...

 Today I got my new year gift from Anu chechi. It was a pretty doll.

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness"

Then first hour was free and second hour was handled by Dona Ma'am MEd trainee She explained Guilfords model of intelligence.

After interval was optional session.Dona ma'am explained the development of science.After her hour Revathy ma'am handled the session.She discussed the contributions of famous scientists and gave us a puzzle to fill in groups.

After the lunch break first hour was taken by Sathyalekha ma'am.She discussed the barriers of communication.

Next hour Revathy ma'am discussed the topic computer mediated communication.  She also gave us a group activity to differenciate CAI,CMI and CMC.

 Yet another college day ended with happiness !!!

MEd interns's time to lead the classes...

 This day began with our optional class by Dona ma'am. She discussed on the topic evolution. She introduced various inventions of the stone age, bronze age and other stages of development. The concept was cleared by our Neena ma'am. We have tabulated various inventions occured in different period of time in groups. Each group write main inventions during each time period on the board.

Then the next hour was taken by revathy ma'am. She discussed on the topic computer managed instruction and its characteristics. 

The next session was handled by Sathyalekha teacher. She discussed on classroom communication and its peculiarities.

In the lunch break interval we had shared our gift for New year friend. I gave gift to my new year friend Anu Roy. I haven't get my gift because I think my new year friend was absent 😅.

After noon section was taken by Dona ma'am. She discussed on Thurstson's group factor theory which provided 7 primary mental abilities and its applications.

Next  was just relaxation session  by shabana ma'am. Aami sang a beautiful song for us. It was really entertaining one.

In the evening we have Insight Indepth webinar on Visual Narrative:A brief introduction of the term Graphic Novel by Akansha mam . She discussed about different aspects of comics and visual Novel .It was really informative .

Art and theatre filled with fun....

ART HAS THE POWER TO TRANSFORM, TO ILLUMINATE, TO EDUCATE, TO INSPIRE AND TO MOTIVATE

Today begins with the optional class. The day begins with the class of MEd intern Dona teacher. Teacher explained about scientific method and the steps of scientific method.

1. Question/ Observe

2. Research

3. Formulate a hypothesis

4. Test for hypothesis

5. Analyse and conclude

6. Result

Later Neena Ma'am concluded the class by explaining the terms scientific method, scientific attitude and scientific literacy etc.

Next was art and theatre class. 

The session was handled by Reju sir. This was an hour of enjoyment, happiness. We walked, ran, jumped, sat ,lied on the floor...things that we rarely do nowadays... We played lot of games that was really filled with fun and energy.

We didn't know how quickly time flies...

Afternoon session was handled by Dona teacher, Shabana teacher and Sathyalekha teacher. 

Dona teacher tells us about Spearman's two factor theory, The G factor and S factor. Shabana teacher explained about child centered and life centered education. Sathyalekha teacher tells us about secularism and education.

We returned from college after watering our plants in the garden..

The day was full of energy, fun and positivity..

Day begins with yoga...

 

The day begins with yoga today. Sir taught some yoga postures using legs. I feel very fresh after doing yoga. The energy for the day was acquired through the yoga.

Then the next hour was handled by Revathy Ma'am, MEd intern from Govt.College of  Teacher Education, Thycaud. She taught us about computer assisted instructions (CAI).

 " Computer assisted instruction is an instructional technique whereby a computer is used to present in the instructional material and monitor the learning that takes place. "

The next two hours were optional. The optional hour also dealt by Revathy Ma'm where we discussed about values of science including Intellectual values, Utilitarian values, Vocational values, Aesthetic values , Cultural values and Recreational values . She detailed each and every concept in a discussion pattern. After that Neena Ma'am concluded the class.

The next hours was handled by Dona Ma'am. Ma'am explained about intelligence , types of intelligence etc.

The next hour was handled by Shabana teacher, detailed about Different types of education - formal, informal, and non formal and their characteristics also. 

Last session was taken by Sathyalekha teacher,she discussed about ' The role of education to inculcate values connected with democracy and secularism' . She deeply explained about basic principles of democracy.

The day ends here..

Every day is different,There is no day That's the same..