UNFOLDING CREATIVITY; A CLOSER LOOK AT THE INNOVATIVE WORKS OF PHASE 2 INTERNSHIP

 Innovative Works: An Overview 

Increasingly, innovation in education at school is more than just a buzzword. It is fast becoming a way of learning and teaching for both students and teachers respectively. Innovation in education encourages students and teachers to research, explore, and use all the tools to uncover something new. 

Innovation may be linked to positive changes in efficiency, productivity, quality, competitiveness and intellectual development. Through innovative work the teacher can improve students performance by providing group work opportunities and resources to innovate. It is necessary to create and nurture an environment of innovation.

Description of my Innovative Works

As a part of my teaching internship phase II, I prepared two innovative works that supported my students in getting a better understanding of the content selected along with generating interest and curiosity among learners.

The first one was a working model spinning wheel which I named 'the noun phrase wheel'. The wheel has three parts- the most outer part containing articles and determiners, the second part containing adjectives and finally the third part containing nouns. Spinning the wheels in any ways always form a certain noun phrase combining articles/determines, adjectives and nouns helping the learners to form examples of noun phrases. 

The second innovative work was a fancy magazine titled 'ONCE UPON A TIME' , which I prepared to assist my learners in understanding more about folktales,  which was a task given at the beginning of the prose lesson ' The Boy who Drew Cats ' by Hasegawa Takejiro. I included types of folktales,  examples along with two folktales to read within the magazine.  Activities to identify popular folktales both Indian and Western were also included. 

Conclusion

The biggest challenge any teacher faces is capturing the students' attention and putting across ideas in such a way that it stays with them long after they have left the classroom. For this to happen ,classroom experience should be redefined and innovative ideas that make teaching learning methods more effective should be implemented. It helps the teacher to reinvent their teaching methods and make their classes interesting.

The innovative works prepared my me proved to be successful in developing interest among learners as well as providing them with a proper idea of the topics selected.  The NOUN PHRASE WHEEL  helped them to form numerous examples motivating them to form similar examples,  fixing the concept and structure of noun phrases in their minds. The magazine ONCE UPON A TIME also was a great success because the learners borrowed the magazine during their free hours and enjoyed the activities unknowingly recalling the types of folktales,  their features etc.

With the help of this innovative work the learners learn in their own time and at their own pace with little or no supervision, self-learning materials are designed to facilitate the learning process. Self-directed learning can be challenging, even for the brightest and most motivated students.

 With the help of this innovative work the learners learn in their own time and at their own pace with little or no supervision, self-learning materials are designed to facilitate the learning process. Self-directed learning can be challenging, even for the brightest and most motivated students.