112. Do you nurture the creativity of your students?

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The other day I had been to BEMP  High School, Thalassery to observe the class of a trainee undergoing Practice Teaching. On the walls of the classroom was displayed the following drawing prominently.

The train in the background, not the normal full bogie which is convenient to draw, but  the parts of two bogies, struck me. Can any one but a  creative mind conceive so? After the class, I inquired  who drew it? All fingers pointed to an amiable looking chap who was all smiles. I   asked him what the drawing is about. The children immediately opened their prescribed Hindi Course Book of Standard IX and showed me the following.

Now compare  this black and white drawing with the drawing by the  student. Don’t you think he is creative? Well...he indeed is!

Here are a couple of other drawings  by the little artist displayed on the walls of  his classroom.

                             Here is the talented artist, on request  posing  for me...

It was possible  for me  to know about his  boy only because his teacher, a thoughtful person must have  encouraged him to explore themes, draw and display  it on the walls of his classroom.

The same day, I had been to another school, in Thalassery to observe the class by a trainee. Find  posted below a  drawing  by a trainee on yellow coloured chart paper, based on the   content prescribed for study.

The following Black and White illustration is from the Course Book

I am sure you will agree that the little artist whom I introduced to you in this blog post, Mohammed Alsam,  has superior drawing skills than  Ms Shincy,  my trainee. Perhaps you will also agree that Shincy  has the makings of an artist.

But pause for a moment....

 Ask yourself... do you nurture the  creativity of  the students you teach?

Posted by Dr.C. Praveen

Former Secretary, KUETEF

111. Suggested Process: EDU- 10.2

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The Process,- a hint of the mental-pedagogical-instructional-experiential contexts felt/received by student teachers for various units  prescribed for study in Paper X: Techno-Pedagogic Content Knowledge Analysis : English were identified during  the BEd Curriculum Reification Workshop in April 2013. But it was not uploaded on the abridged version of the New BEd  Curriculum  available on the University Website. The same is now being  posted for use by Teacher Educators. Hope you will  find  them useful.

Dr.C. Praveen

Former Secretary, KUETEF

Unit 1 : Teacher as a techno-pedagogue  
*Assimilation  *Accommodation

Unit 2: Professionalizing  Language Education in a Techno-pedagogic scenario 
*Collaborative interaction *Intellectual accommodation

Unit 3:  ICT-enabled teaching of  Prose, Poetry, Grammar and Vocabulary

* Information Processing *Aesthetic sensibility *Creative imagination

* Becomes receptive to  Grammatical forms and  the choice

              of vocabulary for communication

Unit 4: ICT integrated assessment practices

*Logical thinking   *Accommodation

Unit 5: Self-instructional strategies

*Accommodation   *Integrative reconciliation

110. Suggested Process EDU- 09.2

[Posted for  the Kerala University English Teacher Educator’s Forum - KUETEF]

The Process,- a hint of the mental-pedagogical-instructional-experiential contexts felt/received by student teachers for various units  prescribed for study in Paper IX: Theoretical Base of English Education II  were identified during  the BEd Curriculum Reification Workshop in April 2013. But it was not uploaded on the abridged version of the New BEd  Curriculum  available on the University Website. The same is now being  posted for use by Teacher Educators. Hope you will  find  them useful.

Dr.C. Praveen                                                                                   

Former Secretary, KUETEF

Unit 1: Curriculum and Syllabus

*Controlled listening *Discriminating framework  *Introspection *Assimilation

Unit 2.Teaching Learning Resources: School  and Community linkage

*Demonstrating thinking skills  *Manifesting  social intelligence

*Skill of discrimination

Unit 3. Instructional Materials and strategies

*Narrative expression *Thematic  Visualization *Divergent thinking

Unit 4. Collaborative and Cooperative Learning

*Collaborative interaction *Self expression

Unit 5. Inclusive Education

*Cognitive challenge  *Controlled listening *Meta cognition

Unit 6.Research in ELT

*Inductive  Reasoning  * Analysis *Synthesis *Higher Order thinking

           *Generalization

109. Suggested Process EDU- 05.2

[Posted for  the Kerala University English Teacher Educator’s Forum - KUETEF]

The Process,- a hint of the mental-pedagogical-instructional-experiential contexts felt/received by student teachers for various units  prescribed for study in Paper V: Pedagogic Content Knowledge Analysis: English were identified during  the BEd Curriculum Reification Workshop in April 2013. But it was not uploaded on the abridged version of the New BEd  Curriculum  available on the University Website. The same is now being  posted for use by Teacher Educators. Hope you will  find  them useful.

Dr.C. Praveen

Former Secretary, KUETEF

Unit 1: Pedagogic Content Knowledge Analysis(PCKA)

*Focussed attention and accommodation  *Reflects *Analytical outlook

Unit 2: Instructional Objectives

*Assimilation and accommodation  *Synthesis  *Higher Order Thinking

Unit 3: Planning and designing  the Teaching Manual/Lesson Plan

*Organization of ideas  *Progressive differentiation

*Systematic thinking   *Discriminates * Identifies specific uses *Reflects

Unit 4: Micro Teaching Skills and Psychological Principles

*Discriminates     *Thinks sequentially  *Gains confidence *Accommodation *Integrative reconciliation

Unit 5: Design and Development of Teaching Aids

*Discrimination   *Reflective thinking    *Collaborative Interaction

*Explores possibilities

Unit 6: Assessment and Evaluation

*Cognitive challenge  *Reflection * Self expression

108. Suggested Process EDU- 04.2

[Posted for  the Kerala University English Teacher Educator’s Forum - KUETEF]

The Process,- a hint of the mental-pedagogical-instructional-experiential contexts felt/received by student teachers for various units  prescribed for study in Paper IV: Theoretical Base of English Education I  were identified during  the BEd Curriculum Reification Workshop in April 2013. But it was not uploaded on the abridged version of the New BEd  Curriculum  available on the University Website. The same is now being  posted for use by Teacher Educators. Hope you will  find  them useful.

Dr.C. Praveen

Former Secretary, KUETEF

Unit 1: General Introduction to Teaching and Learning

 *Reflects, adjusts,     adapts  *Accommodation  of  role expected to play

Unit 2: Nature and Scope

 *Collaborative interaction      *Intellectual accommodation

Unit  3 : Language Theories and Psychological Principles

 *Collaborative interaction      *Intellectual accommodation

           *Higher Order thinking          *Integrative reconciliation

Unit 4 : Approaches and  Methods

*Knowledge retrieval    *Knowledge utilization    *Integrative reconciliation

Unit 5: Strategies for Developing Language Skills and Communication Skills

*Feels need to master sub skills to communicate effectively

*Develops confidence  in using particular sub skills

*Reflects on need for improving different dimensions of Communication Skills

* Identifies own undeveloped aspects  related to effective communication

             and makes conscious effort to improve

107. First Semester Examination April 2014

[Posted for  the Kerala University English Teacher Educator’s Forum - KUETEF]

Hello all,

Recently  I  had a look at the First Semester Question Paper. In EDU 04.2 Theoretical  Base of English Education-I, I was  rather shocked to find an Essay Question on Neurolinguistic Programming. Well...How did your  trainees find the  First  Semester Examination?...  A  couple of  trainees whom  I met at Trivandrum  appeared a  bit  confused.  They were of the opinion that some  distracters of the Multiple  Choice  Questions for  Paper I,I,II,IV and V were particularly difficult to tackle.  So  it is not surprising  that  when the  teacher educators met at Karmela Rani Training College, Kollam on 06  and 07  June 2014,  many suggested the  setting up of a Question Bank for  English!

Incidentally, you can view the  following link for  a  collection of questions framed by the English Optional  trainees of the 2012-13 batch of Government College of Teacher Education, Thiruvananthapuram.

http://phoneix2.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/21-questions-for-revision/

Regards

Dr.C. Praveen

Former Secretary, KUETEF