Best Practices of students

Melekeriya Maathu (A village's communal banter)

  BEST PRACTICES OF P. U. M. S. BETTATTI  2010-2018: COONOOR, THE NILGIRIS. 643104 dpushpa761 @gmail.  Introduction:   English Reader is an excellent leader. Panchayat Union Middle School, Bettatti is located in Yedappalli Panchayat, established in the year 1961. Students from Bettatti, Annanagar, Ambedkar, and Chungam are studying in this school. From Bettatti colony, not even a single graduate till 2012. Because most of the students discontinued their studies because they failed in English in Public Exams. But at present  20 of them are degree holders; some are doing further courses; Nearly 48 students are doing their graduation in various colleges.  There's a change in their society. UNIFORM : The objectives of the uniform are known to all. Much importance has been given to this. Little strictness yielded results and all the children comply with the advice and come in proper uniforms of 3 types. Mo...

SPEEDY SPEAKERS OF SOGATHORAI Main Research Question Why do rural area children hesitate to speak in English? Need for the research  Children are studying in English medium but hesitate to speak in English with others. Difficulty to understand public speech in English  Not concentrating while the guest is  speaking in English  Collection of Data Communicated with parents and students  Do they communicate with their friends in English? How do they cope in their English class? Target Group   From 6th grade to 8th grade  11-13 years  6 boys and 10 girls from 7 different categories of schools. Strategies used Songs  20 Tongue twisters 40 Games and fun activities 20 Videos  Regular One-minute talk activity 30 topics(Myself, My mother, My father, My Siblings, My grandparents, My best friend, My pet animal, My locality, My uncle, My Aunt, My school, My hero, My ambition, My birthday, My hobby, My best teacher, My first teacher, My f...

              MY CHANGE STORY I am D Pushpa, B.T.Assistant at Panchayat Union Middle School, Bettatti, Coonoor, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.  I have already participated in the British Council Master Trainer program in the year 2009 at Karunya college and Jeeva Jyoti Ashram, Kovai. Dr. Ratnam Gopinath, Dr. Prakash, Miss. Anamika and Mrs. Deepali Dharmaraj are the best mentors who motivated, guided, and appreciated me in the initial stage.  Activities which they had provided are very much useful for me to improve the communication skill. Activities like throwing the ball, queen of Sheeba, fruit salad, onion ring activity, Jig jaw reading, running dictionary, word Bingo, rhyming tennis, and songs attracted our students. Through this, I can minimize TTT, give simple and clear instructions. Thus it created situations to think in English.  I was studied in Tamil medium school and did my degrees in the corresponding course...