A Peek into the Life of a Student Teacher

 This week we welcomed the newly selected college union. The inauguration was on 22nd March 2022. The special guests for the day were Abhilash Mohana of Mathrubhumi News and Aswath Lal, the actor who brought the character Antony Thadikaran to life in the movie Hridayam. The morning sessions included the official revealing of the union logo and name and the evening session was filled with cultural programs. Both the second-year and first-year students had programs and each one was better than the other. In the end, there was a semi-dance-off between the two batches.  Rest of the week we were busy with project topic finalization and camp report submissions.

 14th March 2022 - 18th March 2022 This week we had our 5-day camp. Due to COVID restrictions, it was non-residential but we made the most of our situation. We were divided into three groups and they were named after KPAC Lalitha's movies to honour her memory. They were, Pavithram, Keli and Amaram. I belonged to the Amaram group led by Sukanya and Albin Brother. On the first day, we had our inaugural ceremony followed by an ice-breaking session by Dr, Sibin Antony. It was fun and interactive. Group 1 had the complete responsibility to conduct the first-day program. On the second day, we had two classes. The first class was by Reni Antony Sir who enlightened us on the several laws for children. Later we had a class by Vijay Vikramadithyan sir, SI  and former student of MTTC. It focused on drug abuse which was infused with anecdotes from Vijay sir's police career. On the third day, we had a refreshing one day trip to Kuthiramalika and Veli. We were accompanied by Ancy ma'am a...

 7th March-11th March 2022 This week will be remembered as the week of our very first one day trip. Though we had classes from Monday to Thursday, Friday was the most important day of all. All of us with our beloved teachers including Maya ma'am, Ancy ma'am, Joju sir and Nadhanine sir had joined us for the trip. We began the trip at 7 am and came back at 11.30 pm. It was a well-planned trip. First, we visited the Padhmanabapuram Palace then we went to Kanyakumari. My favourite part of the trip was the sunset at the Kanyakumari beach followed by a stroll along the beach. No matter what, the sea has a magical power to lift your spirit. Few among us had managed to shoot a few Reel videos at Vivekananda Rock and beach.

2nd March 2022- 5th March 2022 I had to take a week-long leave from college due to a medical issue. But I'm back to college and ready for classes. But this week we had our international conference for three days which was held completely online. We had several distinguished speakers and paper presentation competitions with good participation from students from within and outside the college. It was conducted via Zoom and just as how an offline conference would work, the meeting was divided into several virtual rooms where each optional class was assigned for each room. Each session was assigned for each faculty and each faculty had a group of students to conduct the seminar. The whole program was well planned and executed without any time lag.

Just like that teaching practise has come to an end. 7 weeks just flew by with works and more importantly experiences. Since, I had a ligament tear in my knee, I went to the school only on Friday (18th Feb). Friday was the last day of our teaching practice. Since, 9th standard students were following a special timetable I thought I wouldn't get a chance to say goodbye to my students. But luck was on my side and I got almost 2 hours at the class. Only the first batch had come in but we did a few problems, discussed the diagnostic and achiement test questions and gave them remedial teaching. In the evening at 8 I had online class and I got to say goodbye to the rest of the students. Also, today Benedict sir had come to visit us at school, but few of us had substitution class and we couldn't take a picture with sir. Before leaving, Fr Babu, the principal, and headmaster Bijo sir gave us wished us all the best and we presented them with gifts to show our gratitude. We all left afte...

 Its been six weeks since we've started our teaching practice. It has almost come to an end. This was supposed to be our last week, but we got an extra week to complete our works. 11 Friday 2022, As usual I had my class in the evening at 8pm. I started a new chapter called Circle measures. Online classes help in covering portions in less time, but in terms of ensuring the involvement of students offline classes are the best. 12 Friday 2022 Today I had class from 6- 7.30pm. I used the time to cover most of circle measures. There were only 11 students in total, while yesterday there were 40 students.

 Out of all the weeks, this was the most eventful one. This week again I had a class on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday, we (Revathy and I) had our conscientization class on "Planets & Plastics" for classes for 9D and 9O. The program went well and it focused on the 3Rs of plastic. Even though it was a Sunday, the turnout was good. Students responded quite well. 4/02/2022 Today, there was a slight hiccup at the beginning of the class due to students joining in late. But it was resolved quickly. We continued with the polynomial chapter and did a few problems on how to find the polynomials based on the given set of conditions. Then I used the time to give instructions on how to attend the achievement test conducted the next day.  5/02/2022 Today I conducted the achievement test using google forms. Some of them had trouble uploading the answer sheets, those students were asked to send the answer sheets via WhatsApp. After the test, we had class for 1 hour and almost fi...