Post on 30-Dec-2019
Simahavalokan March
Report of Library Orientation to PGDME
Students
On March 5, 2016 Ms. Apurva Joshi (Asst.
Librarian) oriented Pre Ph D students about
Library rules, Self renewal and Reservation of
books, Discovery tool as the EBSCO searching
in the Somaiya B.Ed College. First all the
students were oriented to the existing library
services including how many books they are
entitled to issue from the library, fine policy of
the library, issue return system of the books. Apart from this Ms Joshi demonstrated the use
of online self-renewal.She also oriented to the rules and regulations for the different
procedures like the online renewal system, reserving the book & Global Common
Circulation. Students were introduced the facility of EDS. Student were taught how to access
e-books and journals, full text articles at the campus premises only. At the end library
assignments was given to them to try hands on and to monitor and solve the problems they
might be facing. Overall the orientation equipped the students with library referencing skills.
SSSS on the Theme Education for Peace
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
As rightly said by our great leader Mahatma Gandhi Realizing the crucial importance of
peace, K J Somaiya Comprehensive
College of Education, Training and
Research in collaboration with Global
Foundations had organized a National
Seminar on „Education For Peace’
on March 9-10, 2016 which was 23rd
in annual Senior Scholar Seminar
Series.The Chief Guest for the
inaugural seminar was Shri P.K
Hormis Tharakan (IPS of Kerala Cadre;
Former Chief of RAW, India‟s External
Intelligence agency). He focused on very
important topic which is terrorism. He
stressed on guiding the next generation in
peace and conflict resolution. Another
interesting session was by the guest of
honor and keynote speaker was Dr
Subhash Chandra (Founder Trustee, Global
Peace Foundation, New Delhi). He threw light on two main objectives which were creating
social awareness for global peace and religious harmony and developing global peace
consciousness. He stressed on the concept of
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam which means world is
one family. The book Global Peace Science
2016: Victory of Peace over War in XXI century
was released in the inaugural session. The
chairperson of the session Shri V. Ranganathan,
focused on teachers training, improvement in
textbook and curriculum. He also asked the
teachers to communicate the ideas of peace in
different schools. The seminar had 4 broad
subthemes on which papers and essays by
educationist, school teachers and students were
presented across the two days.
Subtheme 1 was on „Striving for outer
peace Causes of Disharmony in the
Present World’. Under this subtheme 6
papers were presented. The Moderator of
the session was Dr.Ranu Jain. Professor
at the Centre for Studies in Sociology of
Education, School of Social Sciences,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
In this session there were a few essays presented. Subtheme II was on Striving for Harmony
Within. Under this subtheme, 7 papers were presented on areas like role of music, yoga and
dance for fostering peace, reconciliations and also on social apps and selfies as threats to
peace. The seminar also had sessions for expert talks. The first expert talk was on Peace:
Learning to Live Together which was delivered by Ms. Shreya Jani, Managing Trustee,
Standing Together to Enable Peace Trust (STEP). She talked of her experiences in conflict
prone areas and stressed that it is importance to listen than being judgmental for the process
of peace to take place. The other expert talk was on Art as Peacemaker by Dr Radha Kumar ,
Associate Professor, St Xavier’s College, Dept of Ancient Culture. She reflected on the
universal features and appeal of art and how art can promote peace.
On day 2 of the seminar there was a panel discussion where 7 experts shared their
experiences and insights.Ms Shubhadra Shenoy, Principal, Shishuvan School was the
moderator the panel discussion. Other panelists were Ms Rufina Fernandes -Trustee, Global
Foundations ,Ms Shreya Jani,Dr Jaya Kuruvilla -
Principal, Hinduja College of Nursing, Ms
Kavita Vaidya- Principal, The Somaiya School,
Kamna Arora- Principal, D J Doshi Gurukul
School & Junior College ,Mr Sandeep Singh -
Principal, Datta Meghe World Academy.
Subtheme III was on „Strategies for Developing
a Culture of Peace’.Dr. Sunita Wadikar was the
moderator of the session. The first presentation was given by Dr. Kalpana Kharade where
she pondered on the coping strategies of visually impaired college students and suggested
strategies for scaffolding the students with disability in the process of overcoming social
exclusion. Under the able guidance of the faculty who were to train the students on writing a
good quality paper .Thus a few B Ed & M Ed students also presented a paper in the seminar.
Among the essay presentations by the participants Ms Madhavi Padiyar (M Ed student, 2015-
17) was the winner followed by Ms Trupti Saraiya and the third winner was Ms Naina
Panigrahi.
Then came subtheme IV which was on
„Evolving a Curriculum for Peace Education’
The chairperson of the session was Ms. Kavita
Vaidya.This session had 7 papers. It also had a
workshop on Designing a Curriculum for
Peace which was conducted by Dr. Vasundhara
Padmanabhan, Principal, K.J Somaiya
Comprehensive College of Education, Training
and Research. The workshop saw an eager
participation to evolve a peace education
curriculum. Finally for the Valedictory session the chief guest was Dr Kalpana Venugopal,
Principal, Demonstration School, Mysore and Dr Rajan Welukar, Provost, Somaiya
Vidyavihar. The future teachers ie the batch of B Ed students ended with a hope in the eyes
and a beautiful song on ‘Heal the world’ so as to bring harmony in the society.
Pre PhD classes
Our institution being a research institution every year continues with the orientation of the
Pre Ph D students to the basics of research. Again this year we have six students who have
registered under Pre Ph D Course .Every fortnight the classes are held by the faculty of the
institution. The faculty makes active use of the Google classroom for transacting the notes.
Apart from this student presentations go on every week which enables the learners to actively
engage into research. Assignments are given to the students based on the area of interest in
Ph D. Active discussion in the classrooms enable the Pre Ph D students to carry on their study
smoothly.
“As we let our own light shine we
give permission to others to do the
same.”
-Nelson Mandela
One of the major events of the institution, the
intercollegiate competition Pratyush sets the
stage for the teachers of different institutions to
come forward and shine in their own light This
year the event Natyatarang organized on
March 19, 2016 again gave an opportunity
to the teaching community to perform on
stage by expressing through dance and
music. It is planned to be a group event
where the focus was on classical, semi
classical and folk dance. Performances
were related to a message stating the
brighter side of our values and social
issues. The criteria of evaluation of performance was originality/creativity, synchronization,
use of props, style/Grace/expression, use of multimedia and attire. The duration of
performance was 10-15 minutes. Three prizes were announced. Apart from this the
participants also were given certificates. Including our own college there were six colleges
which participated in the competition –Royal college
of Education, RBT College of Education,
Vispute College of Education, MCT College of
Education, Pillai‟s College of Education .The
winner was Royal B Ed College, the participants
gave a brilliant performance by sensitizing the
audience towards the issue of women
exploitation in our society. Our institution
bagged the third prize with the theme of
inclusion of Transgender in the community.
News Analysis –An expert view
On 31st March 2016, Thursday, one of the visiting faculty, Aarthi Chandru, an expert from
the field of Journalism oriented the B Ed students to the concept of News Analysis. The class
on “analysis of a newspaper report” detailed the parameters useful for evaluating a news
article within the context of education and threw light on numerous criteria for the same
including placement of the article, tone of the article, review of the article, etc. Thereafter, the
class undertook a couple of examples selecting articles with themes of equality, social justice
and development of society and did a mock run to check their level of comprehension. They
were then given an assignment to follow up on their learning.
Student Support through English Language Lab
In order to improve English language skills of students ,Ms Aarthi Chandru made use of
language lab .From 21st -31
st March 2016, a one hour long session was held every day as a
part of English Language Lab. For the benefit of students who wish to improve their language
skills, Ms Chandru made use of an Oréll Digital Language lab, a combination of technology
and communication, where the students were made to practice all aspects of English language
including listening, speaking, thinking, writing, etc. The sessions also included a focus on
grammar and pronunciation with many fun activities including role playing, having a
conversation, monologue, interviewing, etc. The sessions yielded desired results in that the
students felt more and more confident about their English language skills.
“I would rather have Peace on earth than have pieces of earth”
Poster Making Competition on the theme of ‘Peace’
With this feeling the cultural committee organized a poster making competition so as to make
everyone express what peace to them is, what is causing disharmony and how we can achieve
total peace. This exercise made the students reflect their contributions in attaining peace in
the society. Many students participated in the competition as the competition had three
subtypes –collage making, sketching & painting competition. Students whole heartedly
participated in the competition. The following were the winners in the various competitions.
Competition Winners
Collage Making I Shaikh Tarannum Shahid , Mapari Shahista
Suleman
II Sonali Jaiswal ,Namita Dhuri
III Tejal Ganatra ,Manju Navami
Poster competition I Maitri Rambhiya ,Anushree Mishra ,Ishita
Sengupta
Sketching I Deepak Rao ,Priyanka Mishra
Painting
Competition
I Hafsa Khan ,Anita Tanpure, Priya Thevar
II Pratibha Mishra,Nuzhat Bano,Sneha Rangu,
Saniya Siddiqui
Tagline Guru Competition:
As a part of the sociology club in collaboration with the cultural committee we organized a
Tagline Guru Competition. The competition was held on March 16 .It was a paired
event.The students were to write tagline under any one
subtheme Dowry ,Transgendered ,Domestic Violence, Child labour ,Rape, Corruption etc.
The criteria of judging was as follows: Catchy, Relevance, Creativity, Impact.The posters had
a tagline from any advertisement whereas the picture was related to any of the social issue
mentioned above.The following is the list of winners for The Tagline Guru competition.
Grooming the young buds to take a step ahead
-Preparing the B Ed & M Ed students for paper presentations and essay presentations
As a part of student mentoring the faculty was given a task of orienting the students to the
concept of paper presentations. As we had SSSS the students were equipped on the skills of
research paper writing and how it would be presented. Each of the faculty trained one
Prize Winners
I Farheen Qureshi ,Nikita Rege
II Alifiya Arsiwala, Pallavi Pal
III Riddhi Parab
student for presenting paper. Due to this exercise we can proudly say that we had a few
attempts of the research paper presentations by the B Ed students.
“Small opportunities are indeed a beginning of great enterprises”
-Maths Enrichment Activity on National Mathematics Day
With the small opportunity which was given to the Maths
students as an enrichment activity of Maths Club,the
Maths students got to attend the workshop in Mathematics
to be held on National Mathematics Day.Nehru Science
Centre organized a workshop on the theme ‘Fabrication
of Teaching Aids.’ The aim of the workshop was to make
Mathematics Simple. On 18th & 19th
March, 2016.Two of
the Mathematics students Ms Ishita Sengupta & Ms
Alifiya Arsewala attended the workshop. They learnt to
create teaching learning material using innovative
materials ie foam boards. They actually had hands on
experience of designing learning materials for many topics
in Maths like Pythagoras theorem, relationship of area of a
circle and area of a parallelogram & tangrams. Students
found the workshop very enriching.The students demanded
more workshops of this kind in future.