Thursday, 23 February 2017

MEMORIES FILE....THRIVES TO REVIVE....




TIME TO REFLECT AND SHARE.......



HELLO READERS….Going to bang on the 2 year M.Ed. course where we are the first hand and first batch experimental cats and rats of this 2 year course (2015-17). SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, Pondicherry University has supported us for being called as future teacher educators. Fingers crossed….as waiting for the result to know “are we successful, skilled, and efficient enough to prepare future teachers of almost 130 billion populated country called INDIA???”TIME has alarmed to reflect upon those experiences that we are gaining from last one and ten months almost…..
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION WITH FIVE SENSES (PANCHA INDRIYA): our beloved teachers is running in the corner of Humanities block of Silver Jubilee Campus. M.Ed. class of us with 25 students has enrolled only 10 students last year for the course as our juniors where it has stopped offering all specialization courses except technology of education to be taught because of scarcity of both students and expert teachers of those different fields. How can we stop offering courses if it is to be compulsorily offered as per NCTE guideline. School Of Education only sounds by its pretty name not by the infrastructural facilities that it has. Dean is working as an in charge where his absenteeism in School is always felt by students even the office opens sometimes at 11 a.m. though classes begin at 10 a.m. and often it does not open at all. The improper and delayed function of the School’s office has impacted each unit and entity of the School including both teachers and students. Still as the future teacher educators we keep silence to our optimum level of patience so called disciplined teachers. These are all the pathetic description of SCHOOL OF EDUCATION of one of the central university of INDIA…


            With this positive outlook, we hope for the best at least in terms of task for which we came here that is to become professional teacher educators. Keeping this attitude, we have observed that after the implementation of this 2 year M.Ed. course by NCTE, SOE, PU should be saluted by running the course with its utmost effort to carry out each and every activities framed by NCTE in spite of its own limitations. SALUTE to the teachers….of SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. In the constructivist techniques of teaching and learning followed by M.Ed. classrooms, we construct our own knowledge of course with the scaffolding offered by the teachers. The learning environment becomes joyful and full of fun sometimes in many teachers’ classes. Each and every class offers a new thrilling experience of teaching, it may be handling a class of students with much diversity or coming to class of higher education without preparation but the diverse strategies used to teach is excellent. Though in the beginning, we are troubled by those tight schedule of assignments, presentations, exams, reflections, practicums, own way of guidance by the teachers as per the supervisor role which follows no uniformity in their instructions, now we have a notion that each piece of this experience is a learning. We are being continuously exposed to diverse multimedia tools and platforms, assessed by multiple ways which even the curriculum of M.Ed. does not prescribe. It’s up to an assurance level that we have learnt much like as future teacher educators where we are able to discriminate between what should we carry out and what should not be followed, how to prosper in own area, how to accept others. In a broader perspective, the outlook, attitude, perception towards everything has changed for us which guarantees that definitely the future teacher educators are going to rock and better not only as good academicians but also as understanding the future and accepting the change.
            The way we learn and reflect upon as future teacher educators mostly carries contextualism with the existed life from economic, political, cultural, social and technological aspect of it. In spite of the divergence in thinking, we act cooperatively, collaboratively among each other with passion, enthusiasm, positive outlook and understanding of the image we are supposed to maintain as future teacher educators. We learn from our peer group, develop accepting criticisms, changes, and look for resolution through discussion which are all the reflection of our teachers. We also accept the saying a good student can learn best from a bad teacher.
            All these attitudes of changing own self which automatically changes everything around us gives a professional outlook among us as future teacher educators where we wish to learn more, do more, experiment more, do a lots of mistakes and learn from all these with the attitude that not to repeat the mistakes. Personally, I do feel that we shall get a better platform to explore than SOE, PU but we should learn brilliantly with the apparatus provided rather wasting time, energy and labour on blaming either the system or the process. The best gift over my 4 years of life spent in pondy is my friends that SOE has gifted. PROUD to have them in my life. Thank you Ma’am for giving the platform of academic writing to express my emotions. One wish I still carry is to get a warmth, affectionate hug from you Ma’am as your blessing. I have learnt a lot from you with an urge to learn more from you always. You will be always one of the inspiration and role model in my career and in my life too.



THANKS SOE, PU FOR REFINING ME AS A BETTER PRODUCT WHICH I WISH TO INVEST WITHOUT ANY RETURN FROM THE SOCIETY TO BRING IT AT AN EQUILIBRIUM STAGE…….