Co-Curricular Activities

The glimpses of the Curricular and Co-curricular initiatives of the college

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

The glimpses of the Co-curricular initiatives of the college:

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

            In line with the proverb “A SOUND MIND IN A SOUND BODY”, our college gives prominent place to sports and games. Our college Physical Education Resource centre is fully equipped with the following sports facilities for a wide range of indoor and outdoor activities.

Indoor courts: Table tennis, carrom and chess

Outdoor courts: Basket ball, volley ball, badminton, kabadi, kho-kho and 200 m track.

SPORTS CLUB

            Sports club is functioning successfully in Our College for promoting the skills in physical activities of students.

BLOOD DONATION CLUB

            Our college focuses on service to the society and hence organized Blood donation club. The objective of this club is to save the lives by making the timely availability of the required blood group in and around Thoothukudi District.

YOUTH RED CROSS CLUB

            Our college Youth Red Cross Club functions well to inspire, encourage, initiate and to involve young people as much as possible in the movement and its all forms of humanitarian activities. The club conducted various activities in and around the campus which focus on to enable the growth and development of a spirit of service and sense of duty with dedication and devotion in the minds of the youth. The Red Cross, Red Crescent and Red Crystal emblems are symbols of Protection in times of armed conflict and their use is enshrined in International Humanitarian Law.

CITIZEN CONSUMER CLUB

            Our college inaugurated the Citizen Consumer Club in the year 2009 to make our students as a rational consumer in the society. The Club organizes meeting every year to emphasize Consumer Awareness and educate the students on their rights and duties as citizens.

RED RIBBON CLUB

            Red Ribbon Club (RRC) is functioning excellently in our college. It envisages instilling charity mind among all the students to extend their able help towards developing healthy life styles, donating blood to all the needy by promotion of regular voluntary blood donation and other activities.

ENVIRO – CLUB

            Our college organized Enviro – club, a student motivated club with the goal of improving awareness on both local and global environment issues on the campus and in the community. The club aimed to do this through discussion, interaction with other environmentally motivated individuals or groups and experiments that allow for students to learn, interact and observe the changing world around us.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

            Our college organizes Alumni Association Meeting every year in the month of October to promote the general welfare of the institution, to present the old students as role models to the current students and to offer practical support to the current students as they start their careers.

PARENT– TEACHER ASSOCIATION

            The college organizes Parent – Teacher Association meeting every year to establish a cordial relationship between Teachers and Parents and thus facilitates the academic progress of our students.

PLACEMENT CELL

The Placement Cell of Our College fosters professional skills of student-teachers, establishes relationships with highly reputed schools, and invites recruiters from varied schools to conduct campus interview.

VIDEO GRAPHED MICRO TEACHING SKILL PRACTICE

            Our college conducts Micro – teaching Skill Training  Practice for student – teachers by our faculty members every year. It is a pre – teaching practice conducted for improving the student’s competency in teaching before they take actual classes. The trainees teach the micro lessons using varied skills viz. Skill of Set Induction, Skill of Stimulus   Variation, Skill   of   Explaining, Skill   of   Reinforcement, Skill   of Probing questioning, Skill of Using the Black board, Skill of Closure and were observed by the peer trainees. The Micro Teaching Skill Practice would be video graphed and thus paves way to enhance the student – teachers’ skills in teaching.  

SCHOOL INTERNSHIP

Our College organizes School Internship Practice to our B. Ed II – Year students every year in order to impart and to enhance quality pedagogical practices as per the direction given by the National Council for Teacher Education and Tamilnadu Teachers Education University, Chennai. During the 16 – week internship in schools, they involve themselves in multi – task oriented activities like observation of classes, preparation of lesson plans, handling classes, preparation of instructional resources, and art and crafts activities, etc. from standard 6^th to 12^th. The student – teachers will undertake internship in different schools at Thoothukudi District as per the direction from School Education Department/Higher Education Department/TNTEU. The teacher educators monitor the student – teachers’ performance during the internship practice periodically.

COMMUNITY BASED ENGAGEMENT / SKILL DEVELOPMENT CAMP

           Our College organizes Skill Development Training Camp in our campus for a period of One week to impart skill training such as leadership training, fire and safety management, disaster management, health education, mental health and hygiene, traffic rules and regulation etc., to our student – teachers in order to make them fit to be ideal citizens of our country.

VIVEKANANDA THOUGHT

            Our college encourages the students to attend the classes in “Vivekananda Thought” every year leading to certificate course conducted by Vivekananda Kendra, Thoothukudi. Test on the philosophical thoughts of Swami Vivekananda was also conducted and the successful candidates were awarded merit certificate by Vivekananda Kendra.

ANTI – RAGGING COMMITTEE

            Anti – ragging committee of Our College functions for the purpose of providing Safe and Conducive environment   to Our Students.

ARTS AND CRAFT TRAINING

The college imparts Arts and craft training to our students. Kinesthetic components of students are nurtured in Arts and Craft resource centre such as training on preparation of instructional materials for teaching and learning, glass painting and pot painting, hand works of embroidery, toy making, making socially useful products from waste materials and leisure time activities of training in making of candles, washing powder and phenol etc., related to the course content.

MUSIC AND DANCE TRAINING

The music room in our college is furnished with a variety of instruments like Tabla, Drums, Harmonium, Guitar, Violin, and Keyboard etc. to equip the students with skills of better coordination of different musical instruments and academic related activities as per the norms of the NCTE.

CULTURAL CLUB

The Club prepares the students for various Cultural functions, important day’s celebrations, Annual Day Celebrations and Cultural Competitions conducted by other institutions. 

ANTI – DRUGS CLUB

Our College organized Anti-Drugs Club in the academic year 2022-2023 as per the direction of Tamilnadu Teachers Education University, Chennai. The club functions effectively in our College with the proactive initiative and is aimed at Creating awareness,  Preventing drug abuse,  and promoting a healthy, drugs free life style among Our Students. 

CHILD RIGHTS CLUB

            Our College organized Child Rights Club in the academic year 2024 – 2025 as per the direction of Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, Chennai.  The Club functions effectively in our college with the main Objective of enhancing the Knowledge and Skills of Child Rights and developing the Student-teacher in order to protect Child Rights.  The Club conducts training programs, various activities, and Out-reach programs in order for developing the knowledge and skills among our Students about Child Rights Protection.