Vintage Cross-Literary Awareness club
Vintage Cross-Literary Awareness club reached a significant milestone in its‘Journey of Going beyond mother tongue’ with its club activity of community teaching in St. Joseph High School, Chathiah, Ernakulam District. This was conducted in Collaboration with English Language Teachers’ Interaction Forum (ELTIF). 14 students were taken for this program from our literary club. Of which 10 students were from three different PG departments such as MA (English), MSc. (Applicable Mathematics), MSc. (PlantBiology) and 4 students were from BCA dept. PG students were given preference as this type of community activity fetches weightage in getting scholarship for researchprograms abroad and India. In addition, this type of activity keeps their profile distinct in job, markets. The objective of the trip is exchange of language and culture.
About the program
Day 1
A team of 14 students accompanied by myself left Chennai on 20/9/22 from Chennai by Allapey Express at 8.50 PM. We reached Ernakulam at 9.15 AM. We were given accommodation in Don Bosco School in Vaduthala. We reached the school, refreshed and reached St. Joseph’s School, Chathiah around 11. 30. The students were divided into four teams. Dr. P. Bhaskaran Nair, and Dr.Vinija conducted training sessions for the students in the FN and AN respectively.
Day 2
We had inauguration at between 10 -12 AM which was followed by teaching sessions by us in various classes of grade 5-8. The students were prepared with a list of activities. They struggled as the classroom was noisy. Our students had problems in classroom management. But they were told to interact with the students based on any type of activity possible at the moment of interaction. Post –lunch teaching sessionwas conducted till 3.30 PM
Day 3
The students were conversant with the activities as they could assess the pulse of the students in the previous day. Two teaching sessions in the FN and One in the AN were conducted. As it was Harthal, 50% of the students turned in. Students were comfortable in handling less number of students in a class. They conducted a lot of Games, interactive activitiesand quiz. They used Projector and Laptop, white board effectively.
Day 4
Our students conducted teaching sessions in a comfortable manner and the children enjoyed, and learnt a lot of new things.
Outcome of the program
- Students gained confidence to teach English to the students from culturally, linguistically different background.
- Students picked up some amount of Malayalam.
- Students’ English-speaking skill significantly improved as there was no other medium of communication.
- Students were adopted to survive in a state of different culture and language
- Students developed interest in community service activities.
The Electoral Literacy Club and Internal Quality Assurance Cell of SDNBVC,Conducted Video Screening and Oath Taking On “ Mera Pahla Vote Desh ke Liye” – My first vote for the country on March 5th 2024.
