WEEKLY REFLECTION 

(NOVEMBER 25-29)

Today, I completed the second week of teaching practice. I had completed one poem 'The First Shower' and some language activities. I have just started the last story of the fourth unit,'A Day In The Country'.I used the teaching aids like chart, flash cards and ICT to improve the efficiency of teaching process. I also took part in serving the mid-day meal programme. 

ICT LESSON PLAN -FIRST SHOWERS

NAME OF THE TEACHER TRAINEE : THUSHARA T.S.

NAME OF THE SCHOOL                   :A S H S S PARIPALLY

SUBJECT                                              : ENGLISH

UNIT                                                     : IV FLOWERS AND SHOWERS

THEME                                                 : NATURE

SUB THEME                                        : HARMONY IN NATURE

CONTENT ANALYSIS

First showers is a beautiful poem written by the well-known Indian poet Nalini Sharma. In which she speaks about the changes that the rain brings. First, she tells how the rain soothens her 'frayed nerves' and removes the strain from her face because of her work. She walks with unsteadiness because of getting wet but still she enjoys the rain and the changes it was bringing in.

CIRCULAR OBJECTIVES

The learner

i)                 develops listening speaking reading and writing skills.

ii)                enhances creative and critical thinking

iii)               identifies poetic devices and its usage.

iv)               develops imagination and aesthetic powers. 

v)                reads the poem and appreciates the poet’s style.

PRE-REQUISITES

The learner,

i)                 knows about the happiness that rain brings.

ii)                knows the importance of nature

iii)               develops an attitude to understand the poem with its essence

iv)               knows about the features of nature poem

TEACHING LEARNING MATERIALS

Course book source, book, video, chart

CLASS ROOM INTERACTING PROCEDURE	PU[ILS RESPONSE
INFORMAL INTERACTION Teacher creates a good report by engaging in an informal talk with students	Pupils interact with great interest
ENTRY ACTIVITY Teacher creates mental readiness by showing sum pictures of different seasons in the projector.	Pupils generated curiosity to learn the lesson
LINK TALK Teacher gives a description about the happiness that rain brings and its speciality
INTRODUCING THE TOPIC Teacher introduces the lessons and writes the title on the black board First showers -Nalini Sharma Teacher displays a video which narrates the poem and visualises each line in the poem.	Pupils listen carefully
SILENT READING BY THE STUDENTS Teacher ask the students to read the poem silently	Pupils read carefully
SHARING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE STANZA Teacher ask the students to be in groups and to share their ideas with their peers	Pupils share their ideas
SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS Teachers ask a few scaffolding question to the students 1.      What is the title of the poem? 2.      Who is the author of the poem? 3.      Who soothed the poet’s nerve?	Pupils answered the question correctly
GLOSSARY Teacher introduces the unfamiliar word from the stanza	Pupils identifies the meaning of the unfamiliar words
APPRECIATION OF THE POEM	Pupils listen care fully
GROUP ACTIVITY Write the profile of Nalini sharma Using the hints given-                                  Nalini Sharma Profession: school principle, Bilingual writer ( English and Hindi Innumerable works: poems articles, essays, short story< novel etc. Major works   Orchid ( vol 1& 2) , the unwed mother, rhythm etc. Awards: many awards including Sarojini Naidu award and swedha patel award.	Pupils engaged in the group activity.
PRESENTATION OF THE PRODUCT Teacher ask the group leaders to present the product prepared by them	Pupils presented there products
TEACHERS VERSION	Pupils copied the answers displayed
REVIEW The teacher recapitulates the lessons and ask a few questions 1.      How does the rain soothe the poets nerves. 2.      What made the poet step unsteady? 3.      What was the poet doing at the time of rain?	Pupils listen and answer correctly.
FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY Teacher gives an assignment Find out the poetic devices used in the first 8 lines of the poems.

SCHOOL INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME :PHASE -II

(November 18-22)

As part of the B.Ed curriculum, we the second year students were sent to different schools to be in engaged in the second phase of our internship programme. We were assigned to practice at A.S.H.S.S.Paripally.There were nine of us from our college in which three of us from English option. 

November-18th,was the day of commencement of the second phase of school internship programme. On the first day, we met the Head mistress. She gave us necessary instructions and allotted to sit in the staffroom.

I was assigned to take class on viii-B. That day,i started the class by introducing the 4th unit (Flowers and Showers) with teaching aids like ICT, source book, pictures. 

On the next days onwards i started the poem 'Song Of The Flower' by Khalil Gibran,a poem about the flower. I took four days to complete the poem using the teaching aids like chart, course book, source book, ICT. The last day of the week i got a substitution in Vii-B,and i complete the activity and notes in the poem.