Best Practices

Best Practice 1:

Title of the Practice- “VIPANI (FETE) An exhibition cum sale of handicraft items

and food items by the students.”

Goal:

To make the students earn while learning and to make them self sufficient.

To impart several entrepreneurial skills.

To inculcate dignity of labour.

To bring out innovative ideas and inherent skills of students.

To inculcate the concept of waste management technique.

To help inculcate healthy competitive spirit.

Context:

Since the students belong to rural areas and first generation learners they don’t

have exposure to entrepreneurial skills. Though theoretical knowledge is provided in

class they lack practical knowledge. So, such an event provides an opportunity to get

them exposed to the practical problems, they need to encounter while dealing with

business transactions.

Practice:

Prior to the event a workshop is conducted to exchange ideas relating to various

entrepreneurial skills required for marketing of goods and services and to make best

use of low cost materials and scrap . Later on one day is allotted for conducting the

event.

Students display and sell many handicraft items and food items prepared by them on

that day. Hand bags, Cell pouches, flower vases made with ice cream sticks and many

other items are exhibited and sold.

Sorghum (jawar) rotis prepared by them on traditional Chula is the most popular item

of the event bagging first prize.

Evidence of success:

Firstly students cultivate organised way of doing things.

It enhances competitive spirit, above all it provides them considerable income to meet

their expenses.

Particulars of last two years earnings are as follows:

S. No Year No. of stalls

installed

Total

turnover Profit Profit %

1 2012-13 25 Rs.26,400 Rs.12,672 48%

2 2013-14 32 Rs.33,600 Rs.15,120 45%

3 2014-15 26 Rs.28,000 Rs.11,500 41%

4 2015-16 25 Rs.33,400 Rs.15,300 46%

5 2016-17 30 Rs.38,000 Rs.17,220 42%

Problems encountered:

Due to lack of permanent stalls or a hall, this event is restricted to one day only. All

items need to be arranged in the morning and by evening they have to be removed. If

permanent stalls and proper security can be provided it can be continued for two days.

Contact Details:

Name of the Principal : Dr.Anita

Name of the Institution : Govt. Degree College for Women

City : Sangareddy, Medak Dist

Pin Code : 502001

Accreditation Status : ‘B’ Grade

Website : www.gdcwsangareddy.hpage.com

Mobile : 9440499335

Email : gdcwsrd.iqac@gmail.com

Smt.Vandana, Dist. Employment Officer, Sangareddy, Inaugurating VIPANI -

Sale of handicraft Items by students

Vipani Stalls

Best Practice 2:

Title: “Communication Skills Day”

The ability to communicate, the ability to express oneself, clearly and concisely to

others and the ability to understand, analyze and use information communicated by others

are vital to academic and personal success. The event is organized annually to draw the

attention of the students to the need of achieving various skills in communication.

Goals:

To ensure that students acquire a basic set of skills that are needed for a better career.

To engage students in appropriate cooperative activities.

Overall objective is to develop student’s oral communicative activities from informal

conversations to formal presentation activities.

To help students give organized, accurate oral presentation.

Ex: Reading summaries, short biographies, speeches of famous people.

To help them learn listening effectively.

To provide opportunities to improve reading and writing skills.

Cultivating proper body language.

Context:

Since the students have received instruction in mother tongue at high school and

Intermediate level, they are not confident of their ability to speak english. In the present

age of globalization, they need to develop speaking, reading and writing to have better

career opportunities.

Though modules on communication skills are incorporated into syllabus to

some extent, students don’t get adequate opportunities to speak english in the class room.

Hence supplementary material is designed without any deviation from the prescribed

syllabus, so that the students remain engaged in communication activities through out the

year. Since the students have to compete with the highly competitive job market, they

should be given opportunities to practice oral fluency activities regularly. A day is

earmarked for the purpose every year.

Practice:

The transactional teaching method is found to be suitable for the practice. Right from

the beginning of the academic year, the students themselves plan the whole event. The

teacher is only a facilitator. In order to cater to the needs of slow, average and advanced

learners wide range of activities like tongue twisters, conversations, role plays, JAM

activities, one act plays, recitation of poems, jokes, slogans, presentations, conversations

or GDs are planned. Students practice the activities regularly under the supervision of the

teacher.

On the day of the event the focus is entirely shifted from the teacher to the students.

Staff as well as the students takes active participation. The students are allowed to enact

the activities they chose. Fluency, not the accuracy is the objective of the practice.

Feedback is given at the end by the staff and invited guests. Afterwards, feedback is taken

from students too.

Impact:

An analysis of the feedback over the years made it evident that there is a positive

impact of the programme on the students in more than one way.

Students became aware of the need of improving learning strategies.

Considerable progress is found in the pronunciation of the students.

Students are able to articulate themselves in a better way.

Some students could speak English fluently without the fear of committing mistakes.

Slow learners got motivated to practice speaking skills.

They are at ease in working with peers in group settings.

They realized the need of effective listening skills.

Since the activities demand preparation, they got acquainted with reading and writing

processes too.

Problem encountered:

Grammar and vocabulary are stumbling blocks to their spoken skills.

Another problem is selection of suitable communicative speaking activities which can

capture the interest of different levels of students.

Many students fail to pronounce the sounds that are not available in the first language.

Failure to form certain grammatical constructions. Ex: WH questions, Passive Voice.

Since the activities are not part of the curriculum, it has been difficult to sustain the

interest as well as motivation levels of the students.

Contact Details:

Name of the Principal : Dr.Anita

Name of the Institution : Govt. Degree College for Women

City : Sangareddy, Medak Dist

Pin Code : 502001

Accreditation Status : ‘B’ Grade

Website : www.gdcwsangareddy.hpage.com

Mobile : 9440499335

Email : gdcwsrd.jkc@gmail.com

Conversation by students

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