School Induction: Day 3

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On the third day of the school induction programme, 6th January 2023, we, the first semester teacher trainees from GCTE, Thycaud,  reached Govt Girls HSS, Peroorkada by 9:10am. Myself and Ms.Jessy were allocated a class on the poem "My Grandmother's House" by Kamala Das from Class VIII English Reader for the fourth hour. Therefore, we discussed and improvised the lesson plan for the topic which we had prepared beforehand. It was an ICT lesson plan. We engaged the fourth hour for the eight standard learners. I have given them a brief  introduction to the poem using two video clips on grandmothers' love for their grandchildren. The students helped me in connecting my laptop to the projector but the downloaded  videos could not be decoded by the system, therefore I had used the laptop itself to display the videos to the students turn-wise, in groups.  They were then asked to comment on the video clips and also asked whether they could relate to the same. I  proceeded to familiarise them with the poet Kamala Das. Ms. Jessy dealt with the poem per se and concluded the class. Unlike the IXth standard students for which we engaged classes the previous day, we found the VIII standard pupils less active and interactive.  We had to poke them again and again to get responses even to simple open ended questions. The class came to an end at 12:40pm. We devoted the afternoon session to collect data related to laboratory facilities in the school and also collected data from Ms.Chinnu Jaison, Psycho-social counselor regarding school counseling provided to the needed learners. During the last period, we got an opportunity to observe a tenth level Chemistry  class on the topic 'Non-metals' handled by the teacher trainee Ms. Arpita from Mar Theophilus B.Ed Training College and we tried to understand the teaching strategies she applied to make the class effective and interesting. We were given a class analysis sheet which we filled in and handed over to Ms. Arpitha. We left the school by 3:35 pm after the National Anthem.

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