Sunday, March 31, 2013

Kohila - Profile




Bio – Data
My Qualifications:
I am Kohila, working as a B.T.Asst. in a Government Aided School. My school address is SreeMoolam Rama Varma Higher Secondary School, Vadasery, Nagercoil, Kanyakumary District, Tamilnadu-629001. My Educational qualifications are M.A.(Tamil),M.Phil.(Tamil), B.A.(English), Bachelor of Education and B.A.(History) .         
My profession:
I was appointed as a Secondary grade teacher in 17-02-2000 and was promoted as a B.T. Asst.(History) in 26-11-2010. As a Secondary grade teacher, I was teaching Tamil, English , Maths, Science and Social Science for 10 years( 2000 -  2010) for the 6th  to 8 th grade students (Age group - 11 to  13) and now I am teaching Social Science for the 9th grade students(Age group - 14)
Teaching is my passion. My ambition was to become an active, innovative teacher who is loved by all the students. I believe there should be a friendly relationship among teachers and their students. In addition to academic subject areas, 21st century interdisciplinary themes like Global Awareness , Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy, Health Literacy and Environmental Literacy are equally important in promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels. So  I engage my students in Project Based Learning (PBL) which helps to enhance the 21st century skills like Critical thinking, Problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, Global Awareness, Information sharing, Creativity and innovation and also 21st century interdisciplinary themes among them.
 I guide my students in their project works and presentation. They have won many state awards for their projects.    

My works other than teaching:
1.      I had been served as a guide captain for 3 years (2005-2007) in our school and trained many students to get Rajyapurashkar award and Rashtrapathy award.
2.      I had been served as a national green corp co-ordinator for 6 years(2007-2012) in our school and trained my students to give awareness to the public through conducting rallies, issuing phamlets and participating radio programs on global issues like Global warming and its impacts and waste management.
3.      I have been served as a mentor teacher in training on Information Communication and Technology (How to do project works, How to create animations and upload in net, How to create blogs..etc )    More than 240 teachers and BRTEs  (Block Resource Teacher Educators) in our district benefited by this.
4.       I have delivered speech on World Water Day and World Ozone day to give awareness to the public through All India Radio.
5.      I have created many digital lessons for my teaching purpose and uploaded them in my blogs to share them around the world. One of my animations on “Process Of Digestion” was selected by Microsoft and I received a National award for that.
6.      I have designed duplicate electronic voting machine and seismograph which are working models to make my teaching very effective and interesting.
7.       I have received many National awards, state awards and District awards for the integration of technology in Education.
8.      I have created many blogs to share my projects, my students classroom activities, my school activities and my digital lessons. Please visit my blogs.(www.myschooldiary2012.blogspot.com, www.myinnovativeclassroom.blogspot.com, www.gse3212.blogspot.com)
9.       I have participated in many online programs like world teachers community sharing programs like http://engage.intel.com/community/teachersengage , www.partnersinlearningnetwork.comand also webinars to share my teaching experience with world teacher’s community.
10.  I have participated in many state level district level seminars to share my thoughts and teaching experiences and to update my knowledge on my professional techniques.
My Social activities:
1.     I have been a welfare committee member of a girl children orphanage. I guided my students to take part in Social services.
2.      I motivated my students to help Cancer victims by collecting fund for their treatment. They were rewarded by the Cancer Aided Society for their active participation in Fund raising program for cancer victims.
3.      I had involved in food providing program for the leprosy victims in Kanyakumary.
My professional visits to abroad:
1.      I had participated in a World Teachers Conference for 5 Days, which was held in Brazil in 2009. This was sponsored and organized by Microsoft.
2.      I had visited schools and universities of Texas, United States of America as a member of group Study Exchange program for a month ( From April 10 to May 9 th in 2013)

My future Plans:
1.      To convert all available digital  lessons and animations into my mother tongue(Tamil), Which can be used by most of the Tamil medium students in our state.
2.      I wish to create many digital lessons and animations in bilingual language.(Tamil& English)which are not available in internet. I started this work and uploaded some lessons in my blog.(www. Myschooldiary2012.blogspot.com)
3.      I wish to change the slow learners into active learners by using animation and by giving some digital activities. Because I have experienced that using technology in education enhances a student’s interest and retention power manifolds.

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