Creative Writing

                                          Deep in the Sea

                              

                                                       Deep in the sea

                                                       where you can't see

                                                       There lies a shell

                                                       and its like a bell!

 

                                                       Touch of the waves

                                                        makes it tingle

                                                       Inside the shell

                                                       There lies a pearl single! 

Weekly Reflection Teaching Practice Phase 2

Weekly Reflection

December 21, 2019

                           WEEKLY REFLECTION

                                         Dec 16, 2019 - Dec 18, 2019

During this week till 18/12/2019 we were at school and on 19/12/2019 we came back to college. The first three days we were engaged in preparing the tools for the achievement test that should be conducted at the end our teaching practice. We had to prepare the blue print of the test in advance so that process would become easier during the preparation of question paper and setting the scoring scheme.

On Thursday and Friday we were at college. We had to prepare for the next session of teaching practice that will start after Christmas holidays.    

Report of Innovative Work

INNOVATIVE WORK

INTRODUCTION

As a part of the B.Ed course, we were assigned to do an innovative work based on our teaching practice.

In the English coursebook of Standard VIII, there is an activity section dealing with some phrasal verbs of the lesson, 'The Nightingale and the Rose'. So I decided to concentrate my innovative work on the phrasal verb 'take'. Thus I created a model named 'Take Villa'.

OBJECTIVES

• To know about the usage of phrasal verbs.
• To familiarize with the phrasal verb, 'take'.
• To know the meaning of different usage of the phrasal verb, 'take'.

TAKE VILLA 

 

The four windows of the Villa shows the picture, meaning, examole sentences and synonyms of  'take down, 'take up', 'take after' and 'take back'. The main door opens to the illustrations showing 'take in',  'take out', 'take off', 'take on', 'take apart' and 'take away'.

Weekly Reflection Teaching Practice Phase 2

Weekly Reflection

December 15, 2019

                          WEEKLY REFLECTION

                                                  Dec 9, 2019 - Dec 13, 2019

Exams started on 9/12/2019 and will be continued till 18/12/2019. As we were not given any exam duties we were engaged in preparing the rough draft of our project and book review. My Project is based on my action research in rectifying the errors in Subject Verb Agreement among students while they write in English. I engaged in collecting previous related studies and also found out strategies for the action research. I had selected the book, Teaching English to Indian Pupils by Nurul Huda for writing the review.

Weekly Reflection Teaching Practice Phase 2

Weekly Reflection

December 8, 2019

                                WEEKLY REFLECTION

                                                    Dec 2, 2019 -  Dec 7, 2019

I completed third week of teaching practice. I had completed five more lesson plans in this week. Among them class based on the ICT lesson plan was very effective. I completed the story The Nightingale and the Rose and also the textual activities. I also taught Personal Pronouns using the Advance Organizer Method and Adverb using the Concept Attainment Method. I conducted a diagnostic test on 3/12/2019 inorder to analyse usage of English language by the students. Our Physical Education teacher, Pramod came for class observation and we took classes on health related subjects. I took a class on Malnutrition.   

As exams were about to start on 9/12/2019, I revised all the chapters and also corrected their notebooks.This week too I observed my friends' teaching practice. It helped me to learn some new teaching methods and also correct them. My friends also came to observe my class and they gave me valuable corrections.  

ICT Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN -12

Name of the teacher trainee: Sreelekshmi.S          Standard: VIII C                                                                                                                                       

Name of the school: St. Johns’ HS, Eravipuram   Strength: 24                                                                                                                                                 

Subject: English                                                     Duration: 35min                            

Unit:   IV, Flowers and Showers              Date: 2/12/2019                                                                                    

Topic:       The Nightingale and the Rose (paragraph 25-28)

Theme:      Nature

Subtheme: Communion with Nature

Content Analysis:                           The Oak tree asked for one last song and the Nightingale sang for him. When the     moon came, the Nightingale flew to the Red Rose tree and set her breast against the thorn. She sang all night and the thorn went deeper into her breast. The life blood flew away from her and a marvelous rose blossomed on the Rose tree. The tree cried to the Nightingale to press closer and she did it and sang louder and louder.

Learning Outcomes:                     

                        The learner,       1) reads and comprehends the story.

                                               2) identifies the meaning of new words from the              context.

                                                  3) develops the language skills.

                                                  4) constructs letter.

Pre-requisites:

                      The learner,        1) knows about the influence of nature in man’s life.

                                              2) values the importance of qualities like pity, sympathy and selflessness.

Teaching Learning Resources:    Course book, Sourcebook, Dictionary, ICT slides

CLASSROOM INTERACTION PROCEDURE	PUPILS’ RESPONSE
INFORMAL INTERACTION Teacher creates a good rapport with students by engaging in an informal talk. ENTRY ACTIVITY Teacher asks a few questions related to the previous class.	Pupils interacted with great interest. Pupils responded actively.

LINK TALK Teacher links the new passages with the previous passages. INTRODUCING THE TOPIC Teacher continues the story and proceeds the class. MODEL READING BY THE TEACHER Teacher reads the passages with proper stress, intonation and pronunciation. SILENT READING BY THE STUDENTS TRACK READING Teacher asks the pupils to read the paragraphs silently and put tick mark when they understand a sentence and put ‘x’ mark when they did not understand a sentence and put ‘!’ mark when they find something surprising. COLLABORATIVE READING Teacher asks the pupils to share what they understood from the passages. SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS Teacher asks the pupils a few scaffolding questions related to the paragraphs: GLOSSARY Teacher introduces the unfamiliar words in the paragraphs. GROUP ACTIVITY Teacher asks the students to be in groups and gives the following activity: PRESENTATION OF THE PRODUCT Teacher asks the group leaders to present the products prepared by them. TEACHER’S VERSION Teacher presents her own version of the letter and asks the students to copy it down in their notebooks. REVIEW Teacher recapitulates the passages taken. FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY Teacher gives the following assignment: ---------------------

Pupils listened carefully Pupils listened attentively Pupils read the paragraphs with comprehension. Pupils shared their ideas. Pupils answered the questions. Pupils understood the meaning of new words.  Pupils engaged in group activity.  Pupils presented their products. Pupils copied the teacher’s version.  Pupils listened carefully.