SELF ASSESSED PEDAGOGY

ANCIENT PEDAGOGY 

During an ancient period in Greece, the role of the teacher was first introduced, and teaching was considered an art form. Attending school and getting education was something that only the wealthiest could afford for their kids.The role of the teacher or an educator was considered the most important one in the learning process as they gave invaluable knowledge and wisdom to the children.

However, the educators weren’t the first pedagogues. The rich individuals of the area used slaves to take their children to school. They were considered as the experienced and wise who imparted knowledge to the children they were taking to school.This is how the word pedagogue was created. It is described as the 'leader of children'. They guide the students academically as well as morally.

PEDAGOGY 

Pedagogy is a method of teaching in which teachers teach, both in theory and in practice. Pedagogy is shaped by educator's teaching beliefs and involves their understanding of culture and different learning styles.It is essential for students to have meaningful classroom relationships in order to build on prior learning.Pedagogy refers to the way of teaching students, whether it is the theory or practice of educating. It is a relationship between the culture and techniques of learning.

The main aim of pedagogy is to build on previous learning of the students and work on the development of skills and attitudes of the learners. Pedagogy enables the students to get a thorough understanding of the subject and helps them in applying those learning in their daily lives outside of the classroom.

PEDAGOGY IN TEACHING 

Pedagogy in teaching can be referred to as an educator’s understanding of how the students learn. The teachers are focused on presenting the syllabus to the students in such a way that it is relevant to their needs.Pedagogy demands classroom interactions between the teacher and students which create a significant impact on the learner’s mind.Pedagogy enables teachers to understand the best suitable practices for a classroom setting. It helps them to know how different students learn and grasp information so that they can tailor their lessons to satisfy those needs. It is likely to improve the quality of teaching and the way it is received by the students.

Pedagogy plays an important role to help teachers understand the best ways to conduct a classroom. It gives them insights into how students learn differently in different topics so that they can conduct lessons to suit these needs. It aims to improve the quality of education for students.

TEACHER  PEDAGOGY

Teacher pedagogy refers to the pedagogy that is centered towards the teacher, who gives the most meaningful course information. In this approach, the teacher has a large responsibility of giving correct information to the students in the right way, irrespective of their teaching styles. The teacher can give a clear understanding of how the students are doing concerning their learning and also be an effective model for the target language.

PEDAGOGY APPROACH

The 5 major approaches of pedagogy learning are:

• Constructivist approach
• Collaborative approach
• Reflective approach
• Integrative approach
• Inquiry-based approach

Constructivist approach 

 This approach, the students are allowed to be present in the process of understanding and gaining knowledge rather than just passively receiving information. This encourages critical thinking among the students and gives a learning environment in which they can connect with what they are hearing.

Collaborative approach 

Here, the students form groups of learners that learn together and work to solve a problem, build strategies, ideas, create products or complete a task. This is a joint intellectual effort by the students among themselves or with the help of the teachers.

Integrative approach 

For the integrative approach, the students are given a learning environment that helps them in connecting with their learning across the syllabus. The four objectives of integration include-
Understanding the process of learning
Differentiating issues by relevance
Making use of the lessons in practical scenarios
Associating the concepts in regular lives

Reflective approach 

As per the reflective approach, the students are expected to evaluate themselves. It means observing the activities of the teachers and other students in the classroom and analyzing why they do it and how it works.

Inquiry-Based Learning

In the inquiry-based learning method, the educators are expected to not just answer the queries of the students, but also build a culture where their ideas are explored, challenged, improved, and refined. It aims to take the students from the position of wondering about a question to understanding the answer and then questioning it further.

IMPORTANCE OF PEDAGOGY IN TEACHING

1.Improves Quality Of Teaching

  If a well-thought pedagogy is implemented in the classrooms, the quality of education can show a drastic improvement. This will benefit the students by helping them thoroughly understand the education material, thereby improving the learning outcomes.

2.Encourage Cooperative Learning Environment

            The implementation of pedagogy in education encourages the students to work together towards completing a task and learn together. This increases their perceptions by understanding and taking views from the other students, thereby adapting the cooperative learning environments making them better leaders in the future.

3.Eliminates Monotonous Learning

          Pedagogy and child development work hand in hand. It helps the student to think in different ways and move beyond the traditional methods of memorization and comprehension for learning. It invokes complex processes of learning among the students such as analyzing, creative thinking, and evaluation. Further, it makes students more receptive to what the teacher is teaching.

4.Student Can Follow Their Ways Of Learning

           A well thought pedagogy can help the students to grasp education in various ways. It caters to the learning abilities of different students. Students can follow their preferred ways of learning and stick to them. In this way, the students develop a better understanding of the subject, which eventually improves their skills and learning outcomes.

5.Convenient Learning Approach For All

          Students with special needs require different ways of learning and teaching in the institutes. Implementation of a suitable pedagogical approach will help them learn better and encourage them to be a part of the mainstream learning community.

6.Improves Teacher-Student Communication

      The teacher understands the student in a better way which helps them to focus on the student’s weaknesses and guide them.

TYPES OF PEDAGOGY

Types of pedagogy are:

1. Social Pedagogy:

   It is aimed towards the social development, awareness, and well-being of the students. The teaching must consist of values and moral education.

2. Critical Pedagogy:

It aims towards comprehending and deconstructing several daily life problems and issues. It encourages the student to dig deeper into things and try to understand their thoughts and beliefs on a certain topic.

3. Culturally Responsive Pedagogy:

It aims to address the cultural diversity among students. It helps to comprehend cultural differences among the students and increases awareness about cultural differences in school.

4. Socratic Pedagogy:

It aims to encourage the students to gain more knowledge from other sources along with what is provided to them. This helps the students to find alternative solutions to the problems.

ROLE OF PEDAGOGY IN EFFECTIVE LEARNING

• Improves Teaching Quality

           It enhances student participation in learning and makes them more receptive to what is being taught.

• Encourages Different Learning Styles

            The main focus is given on the outcomes of courses and the students are free to learn in their styles

• Enables Learning For Students With Special Needs

             It encourages the students with           special needs to be a part of the mainstream teaching ways and engage with other students.

• Clarifies Learning Objectives

               The student studies a particular subject with a clear objective of outcomes such as gaining skills and knowledge of the subject.

HOW DOES PEDAGOGY IMPACT THE LEARNER?

Student-Centered Approach:

Pedagogy is a student-centered approach in which the students take responsibility for learning in their ways.

Continuous Assessment Of Students

Teachers evaluate the students regularly to see if they are improving and moving towards their target outcomes.

Encourages Teamwork

The study methods encourage teamwork and group projects for the students to meet like-minded individuals and work with them

Develops Cognitive Skills

Helps students to develop cognitive skills using evaluation, detailed analysis, comprehension, and application of the courses

MY OWN EXPERIENCE AS A STUDENT TEACHING

MICRO TEACHING:

Microteaching is a teacher training technique for learning teaching skills. It employs real teaching situation for developing skills and helps to get deeper knowledge regarding the art of teaching.

  During my first microteaching session, l felt nervous because I choose English as the medium of instruction. I wondered whether the session would be effective and comprehensible. I doubted whether I could successfully incorporate all the components of the skill of probing questioning.

  The completion of micro teaching cycle was a good experience. I could get familirised with the strategies that should be adopted to prepare a microteaching. I should analyse the intention of each of the skill component more deeply complicated examples should not be given at first. We should adopt the simple to complex strategy. In order to meet the time duration. I borrowed the time allotted for the students to think and comprehend. No compromises should be made in this case. Appropriate pauses should be given after interaction otherwise students will feel rushed and irritable.

LINK PRACTICE :

The link practice may be defined as a process of selection, organization and utilization of different teaching skills to form an effective pattern for realizing the specified instructional objectives in a given teaching learning situation.

SCHOOL INTERNSHIP

As a student of B. Ed, I have to complete the 4 (four) months Internship Programme. The program is prescribed by the NCTE. It is a compulsory program for affiliated colleges and universities that provides B. Ed Degree. This is applicable for the two years B. Ed course students. For becoming a perfect and genius teacher you have to compulsorily attend the 4 months B. Ed internship program.

The aim of internship program is to incorporate teaching skills among the student teachers. Internship program is an effective way to give training to the student-teachers about real world of work. It give an opportunity to integrate theory and practice, plan and deliver lessons properly, critically analyse their own and peers teaching styles and improve their in the light of feedback given by supervisors. Through this program they understand the role and responsibilities of professional teachers. Internship program also give them opportunity to understand different aspects of school program and improve their skills and abilities in teaching profession. An effective and improved internship program is required in developing student-teachers personalities as true professionals in field of education.

School internship is an important part of Teacher’s Training Program. Our college every year sends the B.Ed 1st year students for internship in different schools. I had been sent to Holy Ghost convent higher secondary school, Thottakkattukara .

I was excited and nervous for my first day of internship.On the first day I went for the first substitution class in class 7th. Students greeted me by standing up, after receiving their greet I told them to take their places but they informed me that we use to start every class by a short prayer. I said ‘’ohh’’ and felt a little shame because I have to be there in the class knowing all the rules and regulations of school.

After taking 35mins of class bell ranged and I was about to leave the class by thanking them but again they informed me that they end every class by a short prayer, this time I smiled.

First day first class taught me that knowledge about rules and regulation is most important steps before getting into any organization.

Before sending to schools my college had given training about micro-teaching i.e. how to teach but there at the school I had learnt both how to teach as well as how to revise the chapter.

I had took many substitution classes from class 5th to 10th and handled the classes nicely and got confident and a little proud that I am able to handle the classes but very soon my proud got broken when I was sent to class LP section., I went in the class having pleasant smile so that little girls and boys will feel comfortable with their new teacher but it harmed me only, half of the girls and boys left their seats and came to me, some were held my saree, some were my hand and some were roaming around me telling me to do various things for them some were asking for drawing, some were asking to tell story and I was clueless at that time but I was trying to control the class by telling them to sit at their places in loud voice but I myself couldn’t hear the voice of mine because the pupils were making so much of noise.

So I decided to engage them and given number and asked to write its spelling. And that time they were quitely sit.I can still visualize all the things happened there. The class teaches me that teaching profession is not that easy.

we have to collect information about schools with help of school diary, school magazine and from school staffs for that we do practicals and practicums.

In these internship days we had do so many works like peer evaluation, self assessment, club activities, action research, case study, school profile, value education class, class on art forms, physical education classes,and all of them successfully completed.

These golden days taught me so much. At that day I felt the importance and value of B.Ed course. I felt so blessed that almighty had selected such a valuable profession for me. Indeed I had learned a lot from this internship so I will never going to forget these magical days of my life.

SWOT ANALYSIS

A swot analysis is used to assist facility in initiating meaningful change in program and to use data for program improvement.

    Through this work I were able to know about SWOT analysis and it's importance. It helped me to identify strength, weakness, opportunity and threats during the school internship period. As a teacher trainee, the swot analysis help to maximize the strengths, countreact the weaknesses and respond to opportunities and threats with wisdom and intentionally.