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              WEEK SIX ( 20/12/2016-23/12/2016)

                 

          After a short break, again back to school. Felt really irritated and stressed as we did'nt get a break after our exam. But still came to school. Studente were on the middle of their Christmas exams. As we reached the school Alice teacher assigned exam duties to us. That was my first experience so I made an enquiry about the timings and get to the class. Alice teacher asked me to be very allert in the class so i was very much allert in the class. I felt really bored as i have to stay there for almost 2 hours without talking to anyone. But somehow managed.

           

          Exam got over by 22 nd of december and we had a small function there on the same day. The main guest was the  revenue minister. Our school was honoured for having the best library and the minister handed over 10k worth books as prize. The library room was actually messed up before the function. But the school officials asked us to arrange the library for a competition. So we arranged the library neately and our school won the prize. Actually the school was about to close on 22nd of December but as part of government order to conduct Christmas day celebration we had class on 23 as well. We had a small celebration there on the school and teachers sang Christmas songs and decorated Christmas tree. Santa distributed chocolates to every one and by 1 o clock the programme got over and we left the school. My plan was to take complete rest on these vacation but our english teacher Rajeswari gave me 120 papers to evaluate. Thus the sixth week of my intership programme also came to an end. 

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            WEEK FIVE : (5/12/2016 - 9/12/2016)

                

          This week begins with an unpleasant news of the demise  of tamil nadu CM jayalalitha. So government proclaimed leave for one day. Thus we got only four working days. this week we got our timetable for our third semester examination and our college gave us permission to take a break in our internship programme from 9th of December till 19th of December. So we met headmistress and submitted a written letter requesting a break in our internship programme. I conducted an examination last week and i corrected and gave the papers to my students this week. I was really happy to see the marks of my students. They scored excellent marks except two or three students. In my first intership programme only two or three students passed in the examination, majority scored very less marks. Girls learn far better than boys. I tried my level best to teach them in b.n.v. but here i am enjoying this profession.  In the midst of the happiness what made me depressed was to know their knowledge in using grammar. Only few students know to write a sentence without grammar mistakes. So what i decided was to teach them basic grammar. As a teacher  trainee this was not my duty but as a teacher i should teach them whatever i can to draw out the best in a student. So i decided to teach them basic grammar. I told them frankly about their grammar mistakes and told them that they should study how to write a sentence without grammar mistakes. They were really interested to learn and i taught them with utmost interest. Then i made them write 'my self' in simple english and they wrote it without any mistakes. They dont even know the relevance of using apostrophe 'S'. So i taught them that also. I felt really happy that they got some knowledge for future from me.

           I told them that i am taking a break as i have to write my examination. My students were really sad to hear this and they wanted me to stay there. On 9th of December we had a small celebration at our class and we selected Christmas friend. We exchanged greeting cards and i was surprised that i got many greeting cards and Christmas gift from my students. They collected Christmas wish from me in a paper. I asked them to write their examination good and wished best of luck to my students. They asked me to come back soon and bid me bye. Then i left the school to get prepared for my examination.

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          The third week of internship ends soon as we got holiday on Monday. There were only fourworking days and it went as usual. This weekwe got few more teacher trainees to share ourworks. They were altogether five trainees andthey were from Mar Theophilus college. I washappy to see them. We talked each other and became friends soon. We met on Tuesday and as it was there first day in school we dnt force them to go to vacant classes .

          This week we got our timetable for third
semester examination and it is said that our
exam is going to start on 14th of December. So
we informed our headmistress that we will be
coming only till 9th of this month. She agreed and i informed this to my students. They were really sad to hear this. In this week i conducted
achievement test on friday and they wrote
examination with utmost seriousness. The
exam was conducted for one hour and for writing this exam they sacrificed their interval
time. So it was easy for me to adjust the class
hours. Before conducting exam i made them do
exercises based on their curriculum. I taught
them correct format for writing a letter , a diary
entry and notices. Then i asked them to write
conversation. I gave them many general topics
to write a letter , notice, conversation etc. Then i
made them write the daily diary as well. They
wrote it and it was interesting to read their daily
diary. Then i asked them to write about their
magical dream it was also interesting. I was
really astonished to hear their magical dreams.
This week was very interesting as the class was
not based on textbooks. They wrote about many
topics i gave. And i Understood that to improve
their English it is better to teach them from
outside textbook. Because when i made them
write conversation and letter within the textbook
they wrote it from the paragraph itself. They
used the same sentences from the textbook. So
it was difficult for me to understand their
English calibre. So when i made them write from
other topics , they cooked their own sentences and it helped ti understand their knowledge in using English. There were students who are poor in using grammar correctly. I identified those students and i planed to teach them basics in the coming week. They are having english exam on 14th of December. There first exam is english. We had a bad news this week, a teacher's mother passed away on Tuesday. So on Wednesday our teachers went to that funeral and we teacher trainees managed the school. Our headmistress came back to school by 2 pm and other teachers took leave for whole day. So in the afternoon section also we managed the school. As Rajeswari teacher was not there on Wednesday she asked me to monitor the students in viii A . Teacher divides the portion of the lesson 'A Day in the Country'  and asked four students to prepare and come on Wednesday to take class. As she was taking leave for attending that funeral she asked me to monitor them. In the first class i went to 8A and asked them to take classes but they made mistakes when explaining. So i gave explanation to each paragraphs as they finished explaining their portions. I finished the lesson on that day itself and gave them homeworks. Thus our another week of teaching practice got over. It was hard for us to cope up in that school but now we got adjusted and going well with that school.

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        The third week of internship was over and i am going through a mixed emotions. In this week i had observation and both our optional tracher mrs. priya ma'am as well as our general paper teacher Mrs.Lekshmi ma'am came to see my class. In the last section of our internship my class got a tag of excellence, and was perfectly happy in receiving such a wonderful comment from my  optional teacher as well as from my general teacher. But in this section i was little bit depressed when my general teacher handed over her observation paper. There were lot to improve even in presenting chart. I regretted in making silly mistakes. I was really prepared and confident but dont know what happed. May be that was not my day. With great depression i prepared for the next day's observation and i did really good in my next class. Again i got the tag of excellence in my observation diary. So in this week i was depressed on thursday and it affects my confidence in teaching as well. But after the second observation i was again confident enough to teach my children. Me and my students became so close this week they shared their personal experience with me and enquired about mine too. Thus we became so close. I taught them grammar portion this week and they asked me doubt when i left the class. At first they were really afraid to ask me doubts but as i build a good rapport with them they were really confident and free to talk to me and to ask doubts. I was really happy that my students shows enthusiasm to learn. What made me even more happy was, they used to call me to class when they got free periods. This is because they like me and my subject so much. I felt really proud to create an impression in my students. This week i handed over my 8 A class to Sreelaxmi and asked her to teach there. But two or three students asked me to teach them again. I felt really happy for this. I gave them date for a test paper on Friday. I asked them to be prepared for a 25 mark's test on 2nd of December. But one student asked me to put test on 1st of December. I was literally shocked to hear her reason, she wanted to write the exam because that was her birthday .I somehow convinced her to write exam on 2nd, but she was sad. I dont know why my students like me and my subject,  I really felt that  i am a blessed teacher to create impression in my students. Only a few can make such a drastic change or impression.

     This week also I used to go to other classes and took English classes for them. I taught them how to write a letter, a diary entry and asked them to write the format for writing all these. I thought it is better to teach them all these things than teaching them merely from textbooks. It will help them in higher classes as well. In 8C, students asked me about my previous school's experience and it reminds me about my students in boys school and the experience i got from that school. It was a different experience in teaching in boy's school. But i think i am enjoying more here than in boys. Here students were more enthusiastic to learn when compared to that school. But still my mind was longing to see my first batch students. It is from that school I learned to manage the class. And now i am sure that i wont get any remarks in managing class. I should say thank you to my teachers who put me in that school for my first internship. This week went well with little disappointment and happiness on the next day. As the week ends, I am again confidence enough to teach my students. I am thanking my priya teacher for helping me to get my confidence back. It is due to her good comments i got my confidence back. I am thanking my lekshmi teacher as well who taught me to be careful  with silly mistakes.

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"SECOND WEEK (14/11/201 to 18/11/201)"

Thus again came to the end of another week of internship. This week i made a small analysis of my teaching practice section. There is improvement, and i felt happy for it. But something was irritating me the whole week and i got an answer for it while i made an analysis. I am a fun loving and responsible person in my life but the school  made me alter the attitude. God has given me a good school and good students but has given me an HM to put a fullstop to my happiness and peace of mind.  In this week of teaching practise she made me realise that i can't complete my teaching practise easily. the work load of teaching practice is a known truth. But our HM wouldnot allow us to do any work there in the school. She wanted us to go to every free classes there in the school. so we couldnt get any free period there to do our works or atleast to take rest. As we have our thesis this year we are running out of control to cope up with the works, our thesis and more over the upcoming third semester exam so we were really frustrated this week. Even in the midst of this tensions i tried hard to prepare for taking classes. And i am sure i won in that decision. In this week i completed one lesson and asked them questions and everyone answerd except 4 students. I was happy that the hard work i took has become worth. Those students who didnt answer my questions actually knew the answers but they were afraid to speak. Eventhough , I made them study the lesson and asked them questions in the next day itself. While i was studying in my school i have not seen an inspection live. But as a teacher in a school made a difference, i witnessed the horrible feel of an HM during the inspection. They were altogether four people from DPI office which i knew from my childhood onwards as my father was an employee of that office. 

After finishing the lesson on thursday i shows them an animated video of the lesson and asked them to identify the mistakes or differences by comparing it with textbook. To my utter shock they identified the difference within no time. I was extremely happy and became confident in teaching them. In this week again i started teaching the students in 8A after a long gap. As i could take class there in 8A  without lesson plans i already finished the lesson there in the previous week itself. In this week i started the activities and made them do it by there own. We have to serve lunch for students every afternoon and in this week onwards me and one of my colleague started eating lunch from the school. This week also we faced difficulty in getting water there we brought water in bottles frome home and somehow managed. We were asked to sit under the stairs when we came to the school in the first week. But we adjusted there for 3 days in the middle of the dust sitting there without fan but in the fourth day we really got suffocated due to the dust. Thus we asked permission and moved to the stage. There also we dont have fan or light facility but as it is an open stage we could get light and managed without fan. But in the afternoon it is extremely hot there but as we couldbt get time to sit there in our place we could manage it. Even if it is frustrating i am enjoying this internship because of my students, there love.  Today is sunday i had plans of this day to loiter with my friends but i kept all that aside to prepare for the next day's class and i dont have any problem in that. I am enjoying the teaching experience. 

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FIRST WEEK OF INTERNSHIP (9-11-2016 TO 11-11 2016)


 

The second phase of teaching practise started and i felt like being in my old school as a student.I did my schooling in Holy Angels Convent H.S.S and it was a girls only school. When I entered the school premises my heart was filled with memories of my school days. I had expectation about a government school,but as I stepped in I was literally shocked to see a well managed well kept government  school.the school was beyond my expectations. the first class i entered was 8A and again i was surprised to see a skeleton in a classroom.the classroom was like a miniature zoology lab. I went to that class as a substitute as our concerned English teacher was absent, she asked me to take her class as she couldn't make it out for 3 days. My first teaching experience was in a boy's school, at first it was very difficult for me to teach them, but at the final period I started managing them.But teaching in a girls school was different experience. It was very easy for me to teach them. Teaching in boys was very stressful, but here it is easy,less stressful  and interesting too.the class assigned to me was 8B and in the second hour I went there and introduced myself and asked my students to introduce themselves . The class was less responding when compared to 8A so I was little bit disappointed. As it was my first day in school I didn't teach them . I just had a good time with them and left the class. In the next day I started teaching in the class. First I took class in 8 A . and I was really happy to see the interesting face of students to Learn. It gave me confidence and with utmost pleasure I moved to my class which is 8 B. I took same potions in two classes and I got different responses from my students. 8A responded well but the other class was silent. I was repeatedly asking them to say something. But again no response. As there is no Class on Friday I took an extra class on Thursday in the afternoon section. In the second hour I was very much disappointed but in the afternoon section my students started responding. I was really happy to see them responding for my questions. On that day I understood that I can teach them well in this section of teaching practise. The third day we had class only till 12.30. And in the morning section we had a long assembly there and an inauguration function of an eye testing camp.so I didn't get any class on Friday. We left the school by 12.45 after serving good.thus the first week of internship came to ad end.