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As per the B.Ed curriculum prescribed by University of Kerala for Semester III, a song composition work has to be done by the teacher trainee, in connection with any of the topic handled in classroom during the training phase. During the first phase of my B.Ed teaching practice, I was posted for training at BNV V&HSS for Boys, Thiruvallam. The allotted class was IXth standard. I handled a chapter named- കേരളം: 8ആം നൂറ്റാണ്ടു മുതൽ 18ആം നൂറ്റാണ്ടു വരെ - which basically talks about the cultural, geographical, political, social, land related and economic aspects of Kerala during the mid century of 8-18th CE. This is a poem I composed on the same theme, en capsuling the essence of the chapter, and used during the end of the lesson- as a sumup of why the chapter is important. Since my lesson plans were in malayalam and I handled the malayalam medium students, the poem was also written in malayalam. It goes like this.... വൈവിധ്യത്തിലെ ഏകത്വം --------------------------------------------...

With only a few days left  before us to finish the pending portions and assigned works from the college and school, the trainees are already at full pace. Most of us as lagging behind the portion completion. Luckily, I need barely 5 more periods, and then I can start off with the revisions of these chapters, like I did during December. This week I started with the last chapter which  deals with a geography portion. The chapter is related to disaster management and various disasters that happened in Kerala and India during the past few years. It is quiet and interesting chapter to deal with and  I look forward to introducing a lot of teaching aids in the classroom. I have a positive Outlook towards how to present this chapter to the students and how I can prepare them to the disasters that they might face or here of in their lifetime. We also conducted a yoga workshop as part of our physical education and health education duties assignment from the college during this week...

 As part of the First Phase teaching practice at BNV V&HSS for Boys (Thiruvallam), we were asked to prepare students from the school to conduct a morning assembly, by the head mistress of the school- Ambili teacher. After informing the college authority, we decided to conduct the same as a special assembly on 25th of January 2024- in connection with the occasion of 74th Republic day of India, at 9.30am. We chose students of different classes after an initial audition, and tried to promote hidden gems among them more. The students were then prepared and given practices of stage presentation by the teacher trainees. Later, they were taken to the Head Mistress and Mr.Biju- malayalam sir, for final readings of presentation. The program became a success and the trainees were appreciated by the school authority- teachers and the HM alike. Here are the photoes from the day. - Assembly ground of BNV V&HSS for Boys - Prayer Group - Pledge by the student of 9A  - Thought for the...

 This was a very quite week for us. I was already very busy finishing up my portion of history before I leave for my college. Due to my health issues I wasn't able to take much classes this week to I made sure to take at least one class per day. Students were very cooperative but recently it has been noted that they are taking more freedom with us. For some of us managing the classrooms are quite a job right now. Some days some students of my classroom are also behaving extremely different from how they were during the beginning. The headmistress says this is a common phenomenon scene during the teaching training last days at school. Students get acquainted with the drainage and have quite very good knowledge of how far the trainee will go. They also know that the drainage do not have much power compared to the that of a regular teacher and they take more freedom resulting in difficulties of managing them. For some fortunate safe with me this scenario is at low levels come back to ...

  This was a busy week for the teacher training at bnv boys. We conducted a school assembly on Monday which was also part of our school based activity. Duties were assign to each members of the teaching training team and all of us did their part very well. As the team leader I was incharge of the coordination, and I also participated in the activities through presenting a thought for the day for the students.  From Tuesday onwards I started my second chapter which is history dealing with medieval period of Kerala society. As I have already realized that I am interested in taking history portions this was not a very tough task for me, come back to my other classmates. I have also conducted the achievement and diagnostic test test and the results came out better than I expected. On Thursday Lakshmi teacher came for my observation while I was taking the class. It was unexpected but I was able to perform well in the classroom. Teacher appreciated the number of teaching aids I was ...

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  After the camp and some classes at college while there was the Christmas break for students, we are back for the part 2 of our first face teaching practice at the school on January 1st 2024. During the 7th week of teaching practice, first we went back to our teachers to collect the new portions since the previous term is already over. I have been assigned three chapters for this session. Two of them are very small chapters, and, another one is from history. Since I have already finished 28 lesson plans in my part 1 of teaching practice phase 1,  I have the least worries about finishing 40 lesson plans in this period. During this 7th week, on first day, the school distributed Jalebi for students on the occasion of new year. We were also given jalebis. Tuesday was a  holiday as there was a local celebration. On Wednesday I finished the first small chapter which was related to social problems. Hands the students could easier related and it was quiet simple to navigate to t...