CONSCIENTIZATION PROGRAMME

CONSCIENTIZATION PROGRAMME

NEED AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PEACE EDUCATION AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION

INTRODUCTION

Peace education is the process of acquiring the knowledge, values, attitudes, skills, and behaviour to live in harmony with oneself and others and with the natural environment. The issue of war and peace has always been a social issue in all periods of history and at all levels. All religions advocate peace and elimination of war. In contemporary time, the most urgent of issues has been to preserve the protect the values and establish peace and strongly condemn terrorism and enemies of peace.

OBJECTIVES

·         The students should be able to understand the meaning and importance of peace.

·         The students should be able to understand the benefits and conditions of peace and the need to create a peaceful environment in the schools.

·         Identify the major barriers to peace find ways to overcome them in life.

ORGANISATION OF ACTIVITIES

As part of the B. Ed curriculum and practice, we trainees conducted a conscientization programme during our training session. We had to select a socially relevant topic considering the mentalities of the students of S.N.Trust H.S.S. Our team decided to select ‘Peace Education and National Integration-Need and Significance’ and approached our HM who gave us consent to conduct on 30^th January for IX standard students.

On 30^th January, we invited HM, teaching staff, and non-teaching staff to attend our programme at 1:30pm. We started our prayer with a tribute to almighty God with a prayer song. Then our  HM made the students aware of the relevance of the programme and asked the students to make maximum use of it. Then we continued with the programme.

 The prospective teachers Shameena and jency gave an introduction about peace education. Then honey and Jeena Joy took class on need and significance. During the they explained about current condition of society and their need for peace education. Diana dealt with importance of peace education incurrent society. Ancy James,Geethu Johnson and Surya Raj explained ‘how to impart peace education in students. The students were very active in the class.

A teacher’s main role is to promote learning and to assist all of their students to experience intellectual, social and emotional development and growth. The points were incorporated and Gandhian views on peace education was explained by Bindu K Nair followed by Ameera Khalid who gave a conclusion to the topic. Then we collected feedback from the class by asking their experience about the class. Then we ended our awareness programme with national anthem.

FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS

Almost all the students who attended opined that the class was very beneficial and effective. Some opined more programmes like these must be conducted in schools. They recommended that peace education must also be included in the curriculum. On the whole, majority gave a good opinion about our programme.

FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS

·         Peace education in areas of conflicts have a severe issue such as conflicting collective narratives.

·         These awareness programmes yields positive attitudes better ability to see the other side perspective.

·         It promotes and encourages to regards all as equal and strengthen unity .

Suggestions include;

·         Students must be made aware of the threats around them.

·         Proper awareness and counseling classes should be provided frequently to the students.

·         Peace education should be imparted in the curriculum.

CONCLUSION

The topic ‘need and significance of peace education and national integration’ was selected and conducted smoothly. The teachers congratulated us for the programme. The awareness programme had a great effect on the students. Thus the conscientization programme was very effective and relevant to the present scenario of the school.

REFERENCE

·         http://www.insightonconflict.org

·         http://www.unicef.org

·         http://www.ei-ie.org

WEEKLY REFLECTION

WEEKLY REFLECTION

(Fourth Semester)

17/11/16-18/11/16

As part of the B Ed curriculum, the second part of our teaching practice for thirty days started on 16 November 2016.I was assigned SN Trust school with around 14 students. The concerned teacher allotted me IX A and gave me portions to teach. I started a new lesson ‘The Jungle Air crash’.

21/11/16-25/11/16

In this week, I continued with the ‘Jungle Air crash’. Pupils were active in the class and were eager to know the story. The entry activity, scaffolding questions all went well.

29/11/16-2/12/16

In this week, I again continued with the lesson and pupils were very anxious and concerned about Juliane’s fate. This week our optional teacher Ambili Miss visited our school for observation. She observed our class and gave us some tips to better our class.

5/12/16-7/12/16

In this week we got only two classes because of educational strike, and I started a poem ‘Another Chance’. The first part of fourth semester was over and we went to college to attend our university exams.

3/1/17-6/1/17

The second part of our fourth semester teaching practice started and I started a new lesson ‘The Last Leaf’ by O Henry. I introduced the author and his famous works. The class was curious to eager to hear the story.

9/1/17-13/1/17

In this week our general teachers Parvathy Miss and Shameema Miss came for observation. I continued the lesson ‘The Last Leaf’.  The teachers watched our class and was satisfied and gave some tips for further improvement.

16/1/17-20/1/17

In this week I started a new poem called ‘Newton’s Law’ by Nandita Das which is a humorous poem filled with imagery. I also began the lesson ‘The Making Of A Scientist’. We also conducted the conscientization programmes and were satisfied because majority of the students gave a positive feedback.

30/1/17-31/1/17

With this week we came to the end of our fourth semester teaching practice session. Today I took two models to teach-role play model and advance organizer model. Pupils were very much active in the class. On the whole, this teaching practice gave me a lot of experience and boosted my confidence level. We expressed our sincere gratitude for all the support and guidance .