CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE DAY AND JANAMASTHAMI

CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENCE DAY AND JANAMASTHAMI

The 68^th Independence Day along with the birth day of Lord Krishna was celebrated in DIET on 14^th August-2014. The function started with the hosting of National Flag followed by National Anthem and salute to Tri Colour. The cultural program which was presented by the trainees was divided into two parts. In first part, the II Year trainees presented the program on Independence Day and in second part, the I Year trainees presented the program on the Janamasthami festival.

The main feature of the cultural program was that the whole program was designed and presented by trainees. Apart from the cultural solidarity and patriotism, these celebrations give opportunity the trainees to enhance their management skill, presentation skill and moreover boost the confidence level of the trainees to enact and perform in the presence of others.  

ENGLISH FORTNIGHT

ENGLISH FORTNIGHT

As an extension of the workshop on ‘Teaching of English’, it was decided that all the ETE II Year trainees should be given opportunity to speak in English Language in order to enable them to become proficient in communicating in this language. For this, the fortnight 14-25 July, 2014 was celebrated as ‘English Fortnight’ in DIET where all the trainees would be speaking throughout the day with faculty and fellow trainees in English language only. Special highlight of this week was the Morning assembly in which all the activities like Newspaper reading, article reading, student’s reflections on the read article etc. were done in English language. Daily a new theme on which trainees had to reflect was taken up. These were:-

1. Article reading from Newspaper or any other source
2.  Value based stories
3. Quotes by famous persons
4. Extempore
5. Public Speaking on social issues

It was very encouraging to see trainees making efforts to speak in English language in presence of all the faculty members and trainees of DIET. With each passing day of the fortnight, the trainees were observed to be speaking more confidently, fluently, expressing themselves comfortably and with great motivation to come up on stage.

   

Workshop on Theater in Education

A five day workshop on “Theatre in Education” was organized for ETE II Year trainees from 1^st July to 7^th July-2014 in DIET premises. For the workshop resource persons who were experts in ‘Theatre in Education’ and have long experience of conducting workshops on ‘Theatre in Education’ and ‘Story telling’ were invited. Apart from these they have expertise in integrating these art forms with the school curriculum up-to Elementary level. The resource persons along-with DIET faculty worked with ETE trainees. The course content for the workshop included providing orientation and hands on exposure to the ETE Trainees of II Year on various aspects of Theatre in Education like:- theatrical skills, body movement, set designing, costume making, script writing based on content of elementary classes and enactment of Plays based on the scripts developed by them.

            ETE Trainees worked in small groups of 10 each and after basic orientation they were allotted various themes like, Literacy, Historical, Subjects like EVS, Hindi, Math, and EVSS on which they had to write scripts and enact.

            The workshop ended with performances by the ETE Trainees that were appreciated by one and all.

Orientation-Cum-Workshop on Teaching of English

A five day workshop on ‘Teaching of English’ was organized for ETE II Year trainees from 8^th July- to-     14^th July-2014 in DIET premises. The course content of the workshop focused on teaching communication skills to the trainees, orienting them about the various pedagogical inputs to teach different content like Prose, Poetry, Grammar etc. in classes VI to VIII. Trainees were also encouraged to speak only in English medium during the workshop days. Trainees were also oriented about the concept of assessment and various evaluation techniques that can be used to evaluate pupils based on the content taught to them. The workshop ended with orientation of Lesson Planning based on class VI to VIII text books and preparation of the same by all the trainees. 

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                                          DISTRICT INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING,                                   OLD RAJINDER NAGAR, NEW DELHI-110060

DIET (District Institute of Education and Training) Old Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi-110060 is situated just near to Sindhi Park in old Rajinder Nagar and have a walking distance from Karol Bagh Metro Station, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Janki Devi College.



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