January

Tutorials

Before the preliminary exams begins the students get an opportunity either to discuss

their doubts in tutorials or the students they get to know how to write university

questions .Tutorials began from 3 Jan to 6 Jan,2017.Here the students were oriented to

know the paper pattern and exactly on what criteria they are judged for writing

answers. Best university answers were discussed here.

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

Somaiya Alumni Reunion

Second Alumni Reunion for the campus was

organized on January 21, 2017. The grand

reunion for all the alumni across institutions

within the campus began with a warm

welcome for the alumni .The entire campus

was lit up with colourful lights, posters and

exhibition.The college received an

overwhelming response with alumni pouring in throughout the evening dressed

elegantly adding charm and beauty to the campus. On the same day K.J. Somaiya

Comprehensive College of Education, Research and Training also welcomed its alumni

from B.Ed, M.Ed and PGDME. A small program was put up by the current B.Ed batch

to welcome its alumni. Post this, all the alumni members present were encouraged to

voice a few words on their most treasured memories during college days. This sure was

the most nostalgic part of the entire day. The event culminated with refreshments

provided to everyone. Sweet smiles were exchanged time and again; warm hugs and

trendy selfies were the highlight of the day. All in all, the event was a hit with each and

every one- alumni, organizers or otherwise having a gala time.

B Ed University Exams for F Y B Ed

First year B Ed University Exams was conducted from 23 Jan to 27 Jan, 2017. Nearly 54

B Ed students appeared for the exam through our institution. Ms Takshashila Jadhav,

the Senior Supervisor of the examination smoothly conducted the University

examination. All the team members coordinated well and could manage to demonstrate

a well conducted the university examination.

Internship Program

Internship program for the students of second year B Ed program began from 9 jan

onwards.The schools which were taken up as the internship schools were S M Shetty

school , Somaiya School, JNS School ,Billabong School( Malad & Santacruz),IES

Bhandup ,Gurukul junior college & school ,Somaiya school Sameerwadi.It went on for 6

weeks where the students were supposed to take up co teaching and Theme based

teaching. The session on co teaching aimed at emphasizing collaboration and

communication among all members of a team to meet the needs of all students.

Students made use of innovative pedagogies learnt in the earlier semesters.

„Opportunities just don‟t happen you create them.‟

Placement cell Initiatives

To make this true the placement cell every year given ample of opportunities to the

students for getting picked up by the elite institutions in Mumbai. The college began

with the campus placement by holding a job fair from December 2016 where reputed

schools were invited. Ms Usha Sharma coordinated with the schools to know about the

requirements and enabled the students to have a platform where they could find some

relief from the stress of finding jobs. DSB School ,Babulnath as well as NEXT School

Mulund were invited for job fair on 28 January, 2017. Initially the schools oriented

towards the curriculum, working of the institution, assessment pattern which was later

followed with the placement interview.

Professional Development Initiatives

As a part of institutional growth the faculty have been getting opportunities to upgrade

their knowledge through attending various seminars or conferences.One such

opportunity was picked up by Dr Pooja Birwatkar and Dr Divya Sharma who

attended the National Conference on "Academic and Administration Audit" sponsored

by NAAC on 13-14 th January, 2017 at K J Somaiya College of Science and Commerce.

Dr Pooja presented a poster titled ‘Dynamism to Stagnation- Institutions Before and

After NAAC ’

Action Research Project by Second Year students

This year the action research program was conducted in the internship program for the

second year B Ed students. Dr Kalpana Kharade had designed the action research

project based on the model designed by her .It was conducted on the basis re teach and

enrichment in which the students developed learning sessions based on students

diagnosis of performance. Learning resources were created based on blooms taxonomy.

FEBRUARY

Sports Day

Sports day, a day full of enthusiasm, high spirit and massive hopes. The students of F.Y.B.Ed and S.Y.B.Ed had gathered together to have a robust sports day on 2nd February 2017 at 7.00 am. Although the day was already organized, students worked through the steps and processes of creating of the event. The physical day began with a sports prayer and energizing march past as a warm up for following sport events .They worked

through services that would be required, such as sanitary services, water, First Aid Kits and refreshment arrangements were taken care of for the students.

Students participated and thoroughly enjoyed the day. The outdoor events that were lined up for the students were

1. 100 mts Run 2. 400 mts Run 3. Potato Race 4. 400 mts Relay 5. 3 legged Race 6. Marble and spoon 7. Long jump 8. Javelin throw 9. Short put

Outdoor events First year winners Second year winners 100 mts

Run 1st – Babita Thapa

2nd – Viashnavi Menon

1st – Sushma Yadav

2nd – Priya Thevar

3rd – Monali Shah 3rd – Anita Tanpure 400mts Run 1st – Babita Thapa

2nd – Tushari Vinayak

3rd – Dipa Kunchikorve

1st – Sushma Yadav

2nd – Anita Tanpure

3rd – Saroj Kumari Potato Race 1st – Babita Thapa

2nd – Monali Shah

3RD – Shreya Chedda

1st – Priyanka Sharma

2nd - Priya Thevar

3rd - Priyanka Mishra 400 mts Relay 1st – Vaishnavi Menon, Poonam

Prajapati, Tushari Vinayak, Kirshnaraj Dev

2nd – Bhoomi Satra, Monali Shah, Karishma Mlade, Kajol Joshi

3rd – Huma Mulla, Babita Thapa, Dipa Kunchikorve, Namrata Saroj

1st – Sushma, Anita, Priya Thevar, Priyanka Sharma

2nd – Priyanka Mishra, Sonali Jaiswal ,Saroj, Hafsa

3rd – Kirstein D Souza , Aska Khan , Nikita Rege , Maitri

3legged Race 1st – Amee Doshi, Priti Maurya

2nd – Aloysia Dsouza, Vaishnavi Menon

3rd – Shreya Chedda, Rinku Lapasia

1st – Suhita Salgoankar, Aska Khan

2nd – Anita Tanpure , Priya Thevar

3rd – Rukshar Khan , Afrin Marble and spoon 1st - Karishma Mlade

2nd – Huma Mulla

3rd – Shreya Chedda

1st – Anita Tanpure

2nd – Priyanka Solanki

3rd – Rukhsar Khan Long jump 1st – Monali Shah 1ST – Sushma Yadav

2nd – Amee Doshi

3rd – Vaishnavi Menon

2nd – Priyanka Sharma

3rd – Saroj Kumari Short put 1st – Priti Maurya

2nd – Poonam Prajapati

3rd – Varun Pandey

1st – Sushma Yadhav

2nd – Nikta Rege

3rd – Saroj Kumari

Finally the day came to an end giving us a learning outcome of increasing awareness of your strengths and areas for growth and working collaboratively with others.

Placements Cell Initiatives:

The placement cell takes the initiative of

grooming the students and being able to get

placed in the best schools. The college had been

conducting job fair since December .On 25th

February Billabong school, Malad came in for the

campus placements. Ms Usha Sharma

co ordinated with Ms Sachu Ramalingam (the

Alumni) so as to collaborate with Billabong school so

as to identify the placement needs. The requirements

for the subject teacher and the role expectations from

the B Ed students were clarified initially. This

enabled the students to have a platform where they

could know the bench mark to which they would

have to live up to. The HR team also oriented towards the curriculum, working of the

institution, assessment pattern and further began with the placement interview.

Aga Khan Group of Schools also came in for campus placements on 22 February. They

initially oriented towards their mission and vision and the working of their

organization.Finally an exam was conducted based on General English .Students were

shortlisted and they were invited for Demo lessons .

24th in the Senior Scholars' Seminar Series-

K.J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of Education, Research and Training in

collaboration with Global Foundation had organized a two day National Seminar on the

topic ‘New Challenges And New Pedagogies For21st Century Education’ The Chief Guest for

the inaugural session was Shri Vipul Shah (Principal Scientist, TCS). The guest of

honour and keynote speaker was Dr Sugra Chunawala (Dean, HBCSE, Mankhurd). The

chair person was our very own Shri V. Ranganathan (Hon. Secretary, Somaiya

Vidyavihar, Mumbai).

Our respected Principal Dr. Vasundhara Padmanabhan highlighted the theme of the

seminar by stressing on the fact that even today educators are focusing only on teaching

from the textbook, impaired evaluation techniques are implemented and when we

reflect on the teaching learning process later, we realise that not much learning have

taken place

Post speech, Dr. Pooja Birwatkar announced the

release of the ISPN book, containing combined

research papers, that were presented in the last

seminar on the theme ‘Education For Peace.’

The ISPN book was launched by all the

dignitaries. It was followed by enlightening

speeches from our chief guests.Dr Sugra

Chunawala, Shri Vipul Shah and Shri V. Ranganathan. Next their was expert talk by

Ms. Shantala Kasargod on 21st Century Education followed by paper presentations by

the participants of the Senior Scholars Seminar where they presented potentials,

challenges , recommendation, role of teachers etc on the theme ‘New Challenges And

New Pedagogies For 21st Century Education.’

C S Pathshala: Workshop on Bringing Computational Thinking to Schools

Dr Paritosh Pandya talked at length about digital

media, internet, E commerce and E governance,

smart phones and apps and why it is necessary to

bring computational thinking in India.Shri Vipul

Shah (Principal Scientict, TCS) further

enlightened the audience about the working of C

S Pathshala. He demonstrated Scratch software and highlighted certain role of schools

in computing education such as focus on problem solving skills, taking ICT in schools

beyond basic digital literary skills and bring a shift of focus from computer skills to

computer science.

Faculty Development Initiatives

Ms Takshashila Jadhav was deputed for attending the orientation course from

6th February to 4th March, 2017.The course was organized by University of Mumbai

,Department of Education .The topics covered were Role of Social Media in Education

,use of MOODLE in Education ,Micro teaching skills ,Question paper framing etc . Ms

Takshashila was benefited due to the orientation course since it was based on the need

sof 21st century teachers.

MARCH

Poster making event for Pre Pratyush Preparations

Students of F.Y.B.Ed took part in the poster making event which was organized as a Pre

Pratyush event. They were expected to develop posters depicting women from two global

cultures (as one of the forms of tableau) and get them on 6th March (two days prior to

International Women's day).Speaking of the posters, students were seen to be explicitly creative

and depicted social messages through their aesthetic skills. Some of the posters were just out of

the box and were empowering. There were posters made on Women exploitation wherein one of

the student gave away the detailed scenario of exploited women across the globe. There were

posters on, women empowerment, gender biasness issue which is highly prevalent in a country

like India. There were also women from different walks of life being depicted through posters.

Along with their artistic skills, students had supplemented their paintings and drawings with eye-

catchy slogans, captions and messages to enhance their work and spread awareness.

In all, on one hand students were successful in depicting their work, ideas, views and their vision

regarding such ongoing issues and challenges and on the other hand, teachers were successful in

evoking in students a sense of social responsibility through art.

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” – Hillary Clinton

Intercollegiate competition -Pratyush

Realizing the crucial importance of women in our lives and our economy, K J Somaiya

Comprehensive College of Education, Training and Research had organized an intercollegiate

festival; Pratyush on the theme of women empowerment.

Inaugural Session : The program started on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 11 am with the

campus prayer followed by lighting of lamp by the various participants representing

different colleges.The comperes invited our respected Principal Dr.Vasundhara

Padmanabhan to shed light on the purpose of organising such an event. Our Principal

ma’am stated that while the SSSS seminar focuses on global happenings, our

intercollegiate festival Pratyush focuses on all things Indian.

Quiz Competition: The comperes shared a riddle in honour of Dr.Kalpana Kharade. Post which

Dr Pooja Birwatkar and Ms.Hema Peese were invited on the dais to give instructions regarding

the upcoming competitions. Participants of poster making competition were escorted to their

designated area and were given 1 hour to complete their posters. While the audience and the

participants of quiz competition stayed back in the multipurpose hall. Instructions were read out

for the quiz competition and the game began. The game had 4 rounds and the questions were

focused on successful women around the globe and the history related to them. By the end of the

game, participants from Rizvi College bagged the first prize, followed by participants from K.J.

Somaiya college at the second place and the third place was bagged by team 1.

Poetry Competition: Post the quiz competition Suhita Salgaonkar and Shweta Gupta announced

the next competition; Poetry recitation. They introduced the chief guests for the session,

choreographers and the Vice Principal of Billabong School, Malad. They provided the

participants with instructions to be followed while reciting the poetry. In this session we saw

some beautiful and freshly composed poetry which surely touched the strings of our heart.

Celebrating the triumph of „good‟ over „bad‟, breaking the ice, renewing relationships

and linking ourself with those that you wanted to with a bit of color.

HOLI Celebrations

There was a HOLI celebrations, on 11th March’17, celebrated with full colours, spirit and joy!

Holi celebrations will stand out being having the maximum involvement by the students so

far. Activities with natural organic colours, skit, T-shirt painting, etc., were organized. Students

enjoyed participating in the eco friendly event of T shirt painting using organic colours.

Student Development Initiatives:

Inter Collegiate Competition -Ripple - the throb of talent 2017 organized by Oriental

College of Education and Research on 10th March, 2017.Six of the first year students

performed in the skit. The skit was based on social issues like dowry, corruption and

women exploitation. The credit to the winners would also go to the story writer Suyog

Hande who wrote a wonderful skit at young age.The criteria for the same was to be on

the ten core elements. Manisha Maheshwari, Poonam Prajapati ,Priya Singh ,Minal

Mistry ,Akriti Mourya took part in the event and bagged a first prize through their

excellent performance .Apart from this second year students have bagged the prizes in

following categories at Rawal College of Education during the Story telling and Mono acting

event of Rawal fiesta. Mathangi Aiyyar bagged a prize for Bronze medal for Story Telling and

Tejal Ganatra bagged Bronze medal for Mono acting.