REFLECTION ON MY
EXPERIENCE AS A PHYSICAL SCIENCE TEACHER DURING INTERNSHIP
Education is considered as the most
powerful weapon of life to get victory and success. This great responsibility
and job is given to the teachers to nourish and shape up the lives of young
ones and future of their country. The teacher plays great role towards
education and shape up both present and future of a student. Teachers are
specially sent by god to lead pupil on right path in the life. They make them
able to take decisions throughout t their life.
EDUCATION AND TEACHER
science
teacher was my best teacher who always keeps a big smile on her face and make
us active. She added lots of creativity in her teaching. We were very much
impressed on her style of teaching. She influenced us by sharing her own
experiences in life and the way she overcome that. She was our guide who knows
our feelings and interests well. She has been trying to keep in touch with our
parents too. She always advised about the way of effective learning methods not
only for her subject but also other subjects too. She always tried to nourish
the scientific attitudes and curiosity among us.
Physical
science encompasses a broad range of scientific subjects from eighth grade and
early high school. Integrated science classes entitled physical science, the
material includes an introduction to a broad range of scientific principles.
The topics include physics, chemistry, astronomy, environmental science, biological
science, atmospheric science and earth science. Physical science teachers
introduce these students to these subjects in order to prepare them for more in
deep study later in high school.
REFLECTIVE JOURNAL
A reflective journal is a personal
record of student’s learning experiences. It is a space where a learner can
record and reflect upon their observations and responses to situations, which
can then be used to explore and analysis ways of thinking. Journals, generally
written can also contain images, drawings and other types of reference materials.
A reflective journal [reflective diary] is the perfect place to note down some
of life’s biggest thoughts.in a reflective journal you can write about a
positive or negative event that you experienced, what you means or meant to you
and what you may have learnt from that experience. A well written journal can
be an important tool
. As with any tool, to get the most
benefits .you need practice and enter as soon as possible after the event. This
way the details will still be fresh in your mind, which help later in your
analysis .thus the focus is on writing that is not merely descriptive .the
writer revisit the scene to note details and emotions, reflect on meaning,
examine what went well or revealed a need for additional learning and relate
what transpired to the rest of life.
REFLECTION OF INTERNSHIP TRAINING
An internship is an integrated component of practice
teaching at advance level of teacher education program .the main objective of
internship program could be pointed out to be as the behavior modification of
student teachers with special reference to develop teaching competency and
positive attitude towards teaching profession. An internship program where a
trainee complete their training in direct or indirect supervision of experts of
related field. This program has important features with reference to its
uniqueness of practice teaching other than earlier stages. This is a stage
where student teachers him/herself get permission of practice from school, they
own self make a timetable for same ,in absence of teacher educators they practices lessons, conduct co-curricular
activities ,follow the instruction of subject teachers ,collect the copies of
all documents which are related with
school administration. In short we stay for a short period of time with school
as real employee of that school.
The N C F T E 2010 states that “the school internship
is visualized by situating the practice of teaching in the broader context of
vision and the role of teacher and sustained, engagement with learners and
schools N C F T E 2010, in its layout of curriculum, conceives the curricular
areas of initial teacher preparation as comprising of three broad areas.
As a part of b. Ed curriculum, i have done my school
internship training from July to 8th November 2019 at G.H.S.S. Edathala.
It was really a blessed time for me which filled with lots of meaningful
memories. The charming and loving faces of pupils of G.H.S.S EDATHALA welcome
me and helped a lot to wash out all the fears in me. I got priceless experiences
from there which would be helpful for my future. It was necessary to boost up
my confidence which was very low at the beginning. My mentor Mrs. SUJA helped
me a lot to make my internship really meaningful. Her guidance and support
helped me to meet the goal well.
During this period i had to complete 6 chapters for
both chemistry and physics for classes 8a and 8b.we prepared lesson plans
earlier provided with much importance to the child oriented activities. I was
trying to make the subject more attractive as well as effective. Preparation of
lesson plans also helped me to manage the time well. Students were cooperated
well on my classes. The activities and simple experiment i included in my
classes really helpful for retaining their interests and involvement. We prepared
55 lesson plans for this teaching practice session. I used i c t [video , pictures,
slides]for making my classes more effective. From the beginning i got both the
negative and positive feedback from students about my teaching styles. Gradually
i polished my way of teaching to make it more effective. I always tried to
maintain the friendly atmosphere in the classroom by providing an open space
for raising their ideas and doubts. The chapters allotted for me was force, spherical
mirrors, sound, metals, properties of matter from both physics and chemistry. Some
of them were easy but some were difficult to understand for average students. I
could ensure the active participation of most of the students through the
implication of activities and group discussions.
UNIT PLAN
A unit plan is a plan of a unit with a clear and well
defined aims and objectives. Unit planning is a middle stage between year
planning and lesson planning. It should provide activities for students, flexibility
for individual differences, correlation to life and other subjects. It has to
be a complete integrated whole in its organization with the provision for
evaluation and follow up activities.
I prepared a unit plan of the unit ‘force’. We got the
instructions about the steps which need to be included in to the unit plan from
our teachers. From this previous knowledge i prepared the unit plan with
following the steps of content analysis , objectives and specifications, learning
activities, testing procedures. It helped me to understand the way of
organization of whole topic by keeping the relationship with each lesson
plans.it helped me to choose effective activities to meet the curricular
objectives expected to achieve by the students.
SUBJECT CLUB / FORUM
ACTIVITIES
A properly organized science club will be a valuable
aid to teaching science and also means of motivating the children for learning
science .the successful working of the club depend on the person who organize
it and also on the interest and enthusiasm of students.
The first activity which we conducted was a ‘drawing
competition’. It was conducted on September 20 based on the topic ‘oil-conservation’.
Increasing rate of consumption of natural resources leads to the scarcity in
future. That is why we conducted the same for make them aware. Above 40
students were participated on this. They expressed their views through
drawings. Master Sangeeth of class 10 won the first prize.
We conducted a quiz program based on the topic ‘ozone’
on 16th September ozone day. Students were really engaging for the activities. They
itself prepared a notice and published in the notice board. There were 15
students participated at the level 1.master ARUN of class 10 won the first
prize. By conducting all these activities under science -club , i got the
clear picture about how to organize a
club for extra activities and how to conduct these activities in a smooth
manner.it also helped me to realize positive influence on students.
SELF ASSESSMENT
Self -assessment is the process of looking at oneself
in order to assess aspects that are important. It is one of the motives that drive
self- evaluation. After completing one unit i conducted a self -assessment
using a self -assessment tool which i prepared by myself.it was mainly intent
to understand the level of perception of each of them. It helped me to reflect
on myself to identify both weak and strong points.it opens a way to improve my
own style of teaching, thoughts, attitudes, expectations.
PEER EVALUATION
Peer evaluation is a process of collegial feedback on
quality of teaching.it is a purposeful process of gathering information and
evidences about the effectiveness of teaching process. I evaluated the classes
of two of my friends by using evaluating criteria. We were practicing at the
same school g.h.s.s. edathala.one of
them was taking mathematics and the other physics. Both were possessed
differences in the styles of teaching. Both of them were tried to maintain
child centered atmosphere in their own ways. They possess differences in time
management, appearance, consolidation, classroom management etc. I could
provide the feedback for both of the classes which may be helpful for their
further improvement.
ACHIEVEMENT TEST
A test designed to assess the achievement in any subject
with regard to a set of predetermined objectives is called an achievement
test.it helped to evaluate the level of skill at the given moment. I conducted
an achievement test for the chapter ‘force’. I prepared a question paper by
following the steps. Then i conducted the achievement test for 20 marks. The test
was provided with 45 minutes. All the students were presented on that test. I
evaluated the answer sheet using scoring key and marking scheme after the test.
After that i prepared mark list for the same. Students cooperated well for the
smooth administration of the test.it helped me to measure how much they
achieved in that particular chapter.it provides me the review of my teaching
and opens a door to self -reflection also.
DIAGNOSTIC TEST
Diagnostic tests are those designed to identify and
investigate the difficulties, disabilities of the pupil in specific field
before they become serious problems to themselves and the teachers. After
analyzing the result of the achievement test another test called diagnostic
test was conducted in order to find out the exact area of the difficulty and
the reason behind. The students were participated with full of interest. I prepared
a specific type of question paper for the same with objective type questions
arranged according to the difficulty level. I could recognize the exact area of
difficulty after conducting a pretest. Then i implemented the remedial teaching
in most effective way.it was done after dividing the potion into different
subtopics. Then i selected different methods for teaching. Then i conducted a
post- test with the same question paper .they showed very good improvement on
the posttest which shows that the remedial teaching hits on the target.so the
scope of the another remedial teaching nullified.
LANGUAGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Language across the curriculum is a curricular
enrichment program that provides students with opportunity to use their skills
in language other than native language. I prepared two lesson plans of the unit
‘force’ from physics subject using English as the medium of instruction. I
added certain activities to promote the specific language skills like read, write,
listen, communicative skill etc. The classes were taken by including various
activities which ensuring the maximum students involvement. The students were
seemed really interested to use english language to express their ideas and
concepts.
We had a practical work for conducting an action
research based on our particular subject which we were teaching during
induction. I was taking the ‘problems related with lack of interest and
difficulties faced by the students in the concept formation in physics subject’
in action research. Initially i made an action hypothesis followed by an action
plan. Then i executed the action plans in order to get rid of the problems.
More than a practical work i could motivate them on studies. Another practical
work was to conduct a case study of a child who are suffering from any of the
learning problem. I selected a child with ‘a d h d [attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder]’ for the same. I used the techniques of observation, psychological
test, sociometric-test for data
collection. I could suggest various remedies and instructions to parents as
well as teachers to make him better.
The internship training was a great experience for me
as a teacher trainee. It helped to reduce the gap between the theory and
practice. It was a great chance for us to mold ourselves as a good teacher. We
got an opportunity to work with eminent teachers with lots of good qualities
which can copy in our life too. I can ensure that it would be the meaningful
time of my teaching profession. It will be helping for my carrier definitely.
