Demonstration Class 2025 #1 – Inspiring Learning Through Rosa Parks’ Story

The first Demonstration Class of 2025 was conducted by Ms. Anusree C.K., an alumna of Mahe Co-operative College of Teacher Education. Currently a teacher at SMS Vimal Group of Schools, Chennai, Ms. Anusree skillfully handled the prose lesson “Rosa Parks Sat Still” — a powerful story by Rosa Parks — on 30 July 2025.

Her session set a motivating start to the series of demonstration classes, offering valuable insights and inspiration for the student-teachers.

📝 Class Journal - 19 July 2025 - II Year - Pedagogy of English 2

 📌Topic: Syllabus Discussion - Semester 3

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📘CONTENT OUTLINE

Unit 1: Teaching of receptive skills - Skill of listening

Concept of listening in second language- Listening skills and their sub-skills -Techniques of teaching listening - Role of teaching aids in teaching listening skills - Difference between hearing and listening.

Unit 2: Teaching of receptive skills - Skill of reading

Concept of reading in second language-Mechanics of reading (Eye span, pause, Fixations, Regression and speed) - Types of reading: Reading aloud, Silent reading, Intensive reading, Extensive reading, Skimming, Scanning, Browsing, SQ3R.

Unit 3: Teaching of vocabulary

Essentials of teaching vocabulary-Types of vocabulary – Active and passive; Content words and structural words- Selection and gradation of vocabulary -Teaching meaning of words - Expansion of vocabulary

Unit 4: Approaches to teaching English language

Structural approach (Features of structural approach, Principles involved in selection and gradation of structures)- Situational approach- Communicative approach- Eclectic approach- Constructive approach- S-O-S approach.

Unit 5: Assessment and evaluation in English

Concept of assessment and Evaluation in English- Concept, need and techniques of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) in English- Types of tests – Achievement test, proficiency test, Diagnostic test, Prognostic test -Preparation of an Achievement test- Concept and need of remedial teaching

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📚  Follow-up Task

• Collect previous university question papers.

📝 Class Journal - 19 July 2025 - II Year - Pedagogy of English 1

📌Topic: Syllabus Discussion - Semester 3

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📘CONTENT OUTLINE

Unit 1: Analysis of English text book and question paper

Analytical study of a text book of English from state board (class 6 to 9) -Analysis of question paper of class 8th or 9th in light of content requirement and in terms of understanding and skills.

Unit 2: Advanced Grammar II

The sentence connection – Devices for cohesion and coherence- Concepts: different ways in which various concepts are expressed – modal, auxiliaries and other expression, commands, instructions, suggestions, prohibition, permission, probability and likelihood, possibility, necessary, purpose and result, cause reason, comparison and contrast conditions and supposition.

Unit 3: Developing Fluency

Use of conventional formulae – greeting, apology, invitation, refusal, accepting, thanking – reading aloud prose passages and poems – describing and interpreting pictures, tables, graphs, maps etc. telling stories and narration incidents.

Unit 4: Communicative Activities

Communicative games, dialogues, role play, play reading, dramatization, debates, interviews, extempore speeches.

Unit 5: Language and literature

Literature in the school curriculum: Needs and objectives- Teaching of different forms of English literature: prose, poetry, drama –Indian Writers in English: R.K Narayan, Sarojini Naidu and Tagore.

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📚  Follow-up Task

• Collect previous university question papers.