PVKN.Govt.College(A), Chittoor

Department of English

BEST PRACTICES (As per NAAC Format)

Capacity Building Professional Training in English Language Teaching Skills to Government School Teachers of Puttalapattu Mandal in Chittoor District

The Context: As the facilitator of quality culture in the country, the NAAC has adopted a mode of promotion of best practices as time tested strategy. Higher Education institutes have greater potential to play a vital role in providing capacity building professional development of ‘Teaching Community at Primary and upper primary level’ when productively engaged. The Department of English has taken initiative to adopt the best practice in community engagement by providing Capacity Building Professional Training in English Language Teaching Skills to Government School Teachers of Puttalapattu Mandal in Chittoor District in order to disseminate Knowledge and resources to sustain, strengthen and spread the practices for the cause of larger good as a ‘need to prompt renewal of civic mission of higher education institutions’. The quality of a teacher’s performance in the classroom and school context is determined largely by the academic and professional training. With the introduction of English Medium as an instruction in Government Schools of Andhra Pradesh at Primary level need to be addressed with capacity building trainings in English Language Teaching Skills.

Objectives of the Practice:

The faculty of the Department of English will teach/ train the Teachers with the following Capacity Building Programmes in ELT:

1. Organize Workshop on Teaching LSRW Skills in English Language to Government School Teachers of Puttalapattu

2. Conduct Guest Lectures twice a year 3. Equip the teachers with ICT based English Language Teaching Techniques4. Make aware of Class Room Conversations in English5. Involve M.A English Students of PVKN Govt (A) College, Chittoor to conduct Area Research

Case Study 6. Provision of English Helpline Desk

The Practice:

Guest Lecture was conducted on ‘Enrichment of Spoken English Skills among Students’ on 2/11/2019 by Dr.T.Malathi Gabriel’, Head of the Department of English. Guest Lecture on ‘Phonetics’, ‘Verb forms’, ‘Adjectives’ and Tenses was conducted by the faculty of Department of English- Dr.T.Malathi Gabriel, Dr.S.V.Ramesh Kumar, Dr.K.Rajani and Dr.Mohammed Shafiullah on 4/2/20 as a part of 5 Day Capacity Building Programme - Comprehensive Enhancement Learning Programme(CLEP) under Samagra Shiksha organised by State Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Area Study Research Project conducted by M.A English students on ‘Introduction of English Medium in Govt. Schools – A case study in Puthalapattu Mandal of Chittoor District’. A survey was done for Data Collection –Structured Interview Schedule and In Depth Interview (IDI) Schedule from

Teachers, Parents and People of the Mandal. Analysis and Findings resulted in further action plan and recommendations for developing ELT skills among teachers.

The department mail id departmentofenglishpvkn@gmail.com is created to render free services as English Helpline Desk to faculty outside the college and students of PVKN to send their doubts on English language learning and ELT methodologies.

OBSTACLES FACED IF ANY AND STRATEGIES ADOPTED TO OVERCOME THEM:

a) Obstacles faced include phobia among the teachers to communicate in English with

confidence.

b) Poor Communication skills

c) Technical issues such as poor audio quality or audio-video quality at the Resource Centre

etc

d) Periodical motivation to the teachers to improve their skills through such

workshops/lecturers.

We can overcome such obstacles by sustained persuasion of faculty on the dire need of implementing English standards among the school teachers, particularly at the government schools. In view of this, constant support from the parent institution to organize such workshops/lectures and also from the Mandal Educational Officer of Putalapattu in according permission from time to time for organizing Expert Lectures/workshops. Computer operator at the Mandal Resource Centre would come handy to rectify the technical issues if any in time and can contribute for the smooth conduct of such lectures and workshops at the respective MRC.

Impact of the Practice: The Programme resulted in active participation of Teachers in learning Teaching Skills. The activities of the department of English truly reflect the concern of the institution for the students in Government Schools in Putthalapattu Mandal of Chittoor District of whom majority hail from downtrodden and first generation learners. Enrollment of Student Strength in this academic year has increased. Further the activities also strive to strengthen the English Language training and Professional Success of the Teachers.

Resources required:

Computers

Internet Connection

LCD Projector

Seminar Hall

Photo Gallery

Dr.T.Malathi Gabriel gave Guest Lecture on ‘Enrichment of Spoken English Skills among Students’ on 2/11/2019 to Government School Teachers of Puttalapattu & Penumuru Mandal at Mandal Resource Centre, Puttalapattu.

Warm up Activity by playing a video

Power Point Presentation on Classroom Conversations

Activity by Participant on ‘Giving Directions’

Activity by Participants on ‘Describing Person’

Activity by Participants on ‘Describing Person’

Felicitation to Dr.T.Malathi Gabriel by MEO and Staff

Guest Lectures

SESSION: 1Phonetics and Pronunciation

About the Session:

An expert lecture was conducted by me on Phonetics and Pronunciation Skills to the government teachers of Putalapattu Mandal in Chittoor District, A.P. on 04/02/2020. The teacher participants are Primary School teachers of Putalapattu Mandal and most of the teachers literally have no idea about the Phonetics and the rules governing in good Pronunciation. My lecture has been very fruitful by making all the teachers to get a thorough idea about Phonetic symbols and Pronunciation Skills by providing hands - on experience and by teaching through activity based learning. I started my session in the morning at 9.30 am and come to an end at 11.00 am.

Learning Outcomes

1.Thorough knowledge gained about the sound system of English including stress and intonation patterns.

2.Demonstrate knowledge of differences between English spelling and pronunciation.

3.Demonstrate the distinguishing features between British and American English.

4.Develops reference skills and pronunciation skills.

Sri S Mohammad Shafiullah, Lecturer in English, interacting with the primary teachers of Putthalapattu Mandal during the course of his expert lecture.

Practice of Phonetic Symbols is undertaken with the teacher participants by the expert lecturer by giving sufficient examples with explanation. Two activities on Phonetic Symbols were undertaken by the teacher participants.

5. They learn how to use phonetics and phonology to describe and produce English speech with little bit mastery over the subtle nuances of English language.

SESSION –II

Topic: Verb Forms

About the Session:

An expert lecture was conducted by Dr. K. Rajani on Verb forms to the government school teachers of Puthalapattu mandal in Chittoor District, A.P. on 4-2-2020. The teacher participants are primary teachers of Puthalapattu mandal, who are aspiring to teach English medium for the first time. Though they have English as part of the curriculum, they do not teach in English medium as the students are basically from Telugu medium. Hence teaching Verb forms to such teachers became challenging. The session is started with defining Verb and its two major divisions main and auxiliary verbs. A PPT is presented on main verbs and auxiliary verbs were explained such as be forms, do forms, and have forms along with will, would; can, could; may, might; etc. agreement of verb is also explained in detail with examples in the second session starting from 11 to 12 p.m. an activity of relating the usage of verb forms to the anecdotes used by teachers is assigned to them. Teachers actively participated in it.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Complete idea and full-fledged understanding of Verb forms is gained2. With the examples given teachers got an idea to use verbs3. Got an effective idea to teach school children4. Verbs are the base for tenses and voices, hence it forms the base5. Got a holistic idea of teaching with PPT.

Dr.K.Rajani gave PPT on Verb Forms

Dr.k.Rajani c onducted an Activity- Anecdotes with Verb forms

SESSION –III

Topic: Adjectives

About the Session:

The third session began at 12.00P.m on ‘Adjectives’. Dr.T.Malathi Gabriel started the session with a ‘Warm up Activity’ by playing the video on ‘Dum Dum Da Da’- energizerhttps://www.youtube.com /watch?v=6RcR1WsxYpA. An activity about naming the objects in the classroom and outside the classroom and describing those naming words with another word is done as providing basic information about nouns and adjectives as a part of explaining learner-centred pedagogic approach. A Power Point Presentation on ‘Adjectives’ followed by an activity to identify the kinds of adjectives is presented by the resource person. Then an animated video on Adjectives which is posted in malathimadam.blogspot.com is played and finally the session ended with answering the exercises on adjectives.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Kinds of adjectives and their uses were understood2. ICT enabled ELT Skills were learnt3. Usage adjectives with suffix –‘er’ and ‘est’4. Design learner-Centric Teaching

Warm up Activity PPT on Adjectives

SESSION –IV

Topic: Tenses

About the Session:On 4.2.2019, in the Afternoon Session from 2.00pm to 3.00pm an expert lecture was given by Dr.S.V.Ramesh Kumar through power point presentation on the topic ‘Teaching Tenses in the classroom to the first generation students.’ Tenses are the most important and useful grammar topics that help to speak and write correct English. The teacher participants were trained in content and methodology for teaching Tenses. Certain easier ways of teaching the topic were dealt by the resource person given the mother tongue background of the majority of the students at school level. The participants showed keen interest and actively participated in the interactive session that followed after the completion of the presentation. Hands on experience were also conducted to evaluate the understanding of the topic. The participants were highly appreciative of the initiative taken by the PVKN College Professors and expressed their willingness to participate in such programmes in order to enrich their subject and Teaching Skills.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use of Tenses to refer to different events and incidents of day today life was explicated.2. Different uses of Tense forms were learnt3. Common mistakes that roll in usage of Tenses were identified4. Easier ways of Teaching Tenses to average students were identified.

Interactive Session on Teaching TensesPPT on Tenses

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