1.      Basic Concepts of Health and Hygiene- Cleanliness of surroundings, Teaching Personal Hygiene to children- Teeth, hair bath.

2.      Wearing clean clothes - Uniforms - suitable cloth.  Cotton/Wool etc.

3.      Child Diseases - Malnutrition - Balanced Diet.  Vitamins, Carbo Hydrates and Protein, Minerals.  Deficiency diseases, Iodine deficiency.

4.      Other Health Problems - Eyes, Ears, Nose, Throat etc. Skin.  Respiratory and Gastro.  Intestinal problems.  First Aid and prevention methods

5.      Psychological and Physical needs of children below three years - Breast feeding - Its importance.

6.      Accidents and Injury- indoor and outdoor accidents - prevention and First Aid

7.      School meal program - Food items to be chosen carefully - cooking and serving Good habits of eating food and cleaning.

8.      School Health Immunization and Enoculations - DPT, Polio Drops etc.  Health care.

4. Montessori Method of Teaching - Arts & Crafts

1.      Introduction - Montessori principles - stages of development

2.      Self Correction - Recognition of shapes and sizes, colorus, boxes, cylinders, colours matching - building blocks, bead boxes.

3.      Developing aesthetic, creative and imaginative abilities - Flash cards, story charts, number charts, number game.

4.      Conversational charts, stories, songs and hand work.

5.       Types of arts - kinds of drawing - craft work and cutting models.

5. Communicative English and Method of Teaching

1.      Listening practice - Teaching speak English using gestures, proper Facial expressions and hand movements - students imitate.

2.      Teachers English must be a model - knowledge of phonetics, 12 vowels, 8 diphthongs and 24 consonants - Daniel Jones pronouncing dictionary phonetics symbols to be practiced.

3.      Word stress, sentence stress, intonations - Rising and falling Intonations - practice

4.      Language and Communication - Listening, speaking reading and writing - four skills one after the other (Not to start with writing A,B, c..)

5.      Rhymes - Teaching for enjoyment - Non sense Rhymes or Nursery Rhymes - meaning not important.  Tongue Twisters - Pronunciation, Accent and Rhyme

6.      Functional English - Greetings & formulae to be used in classes.  Good morning, Thank you, It's all right etc.

7.      Picture conversation - Story pictures - Story telling - use of appropriae tense forms in stories -Structural oral situational Approach - Drills and practices.

8.      Play way - Conversation through play variety - use of mother tongue Judiciously.

9.      Reading with clarity and speed - not word by word but in meaningful phrases - Flash cards to be used.

10.  Writing - strokes and curves first - various drawing of patterns.  Introduction to writing - Un joined letters to begin with legibility.

11.  Teacher Training practical work - speak English only in the English
Period- Gestures to be used.  Class room formulae such as come here, Go to your place, thank you.  Good morning etc. are to be used  amply.

12.  Conversation in pairs - At the post office, At school, At the shop, At the Railway station etc. to be practiced.

6. Computer Education ( Windows - Ms Office )

1.      Windows Introduction
Computer Basics - Operating system

2.      Desk Top Icons
My computer, Recycle Bin, Internet Explorer, Network Neighborhood, My documents

3.      Working with windows
How to create a folder, Copying and cutting files and renaming

4.      Start Icon
Programs, Favorites, Documents, Settings, Find, Run and shutdown

5.      Application Icons

 

MS WORD

1. An Introduction to Word
The word workspace, starting and quitting word, creating and manipulating various documents, editing of proofing files, merging documents and macros

2. How to use mouse and menu
Working with dialog box

3. Primary Commands in file menu
The open commands.  The file name commands, the new commands, the save, save as, and save all commands.  The close command, the page setup, the print commands and the exit command

4. Edit menu commands
The cut, copy and paste commands,  The undo and repeat commands,  Find and replace commands

5. Format commands

The view menu, the Insert menu, the tool menu, the table menu and the window menu.

SPREAD SHEET PREPARATION USING MS EXCEL

1.      Building a simple worksheet
Entering text, entering values, entering dates and times, moving around

2.      Formatting basics
The selecting ranges, using menu, using tool bar, using shortcut menus, changing entries, copying entries, moving entries, inserting and deleting cells.

3.      Working with multiple worksheet
Copying entries between workbooks, moving sheets between work books, deleting sheets, quitting excel

4.      Opening existing workbooks
Simple calculations, doing arithmetic, totaling column of values, naming cells and ranges

5.      Formatting Text
Displaying dollars and cents, formatting decimal places, formatting dates, copying style and formats

6.      Formulae that make decisions
Using if function,  using the nested if functions, copying formulae

7.      Checking spelling, printing worksheets, preview worksheets, goal seek, scenarios, macro, protection.

8.      Sorting data, keeping leading in view, finding records, adding and deleting records, filtering records

9.      Plotting charts sizing and moving charts, updating charts, changing the chart type, using chart auto format.