Bio
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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.
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.
