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passionate teacher engaging students
who are eager to learn as a result of that
teacher’s enthusiasm. I am in my 19th year
in education and my 10th year as a English
Language teacher in this school, and I remain
just as excited about what I do today as I
was the first day I entered this school.
Building relationships and working handin-hand
with students and teachers has
allowed me to continuously improve myself
and influence a positive change in school
culture that supports sustainability. Our
change and school improvement efforts have
been successful because we have created an
attitude, climate, and culture where teachers
believe in students and students believe in
them. We provide students with high-quality,
engaging instruction in a safe and supportive
environment, and we learn together, grow
together, and have fun together. Students and
staff members alike, sixth grade or eighth
grade, or anyone working in school, know
that we are truly working together to achieve
our mission of striving to reach and motivate
students.
Techno-Teaching:
We live in a world where information and
knowledge is now available to us at the speed
of light. Digital revolution has tremendously
encompassed our children who are technosmart
and eager to embrace this wonder of
science. Despite the best infrastructure and
accessibility available around us, our teachers
are still not in the Techno Savvy Mode. Since
we have been lifelong learners, I get worried
when I find some teachers not having an
email id or have no firsthand experience of
operating a computer.
In our times the peak of technology was
chalk and black board but today we have
technology tools like interactive whiteboards,
projectors, computer, video camera, etc.
I would like the teachers to try this link
provided by Edutopia and test their technoskills
online to know where they stand in
technology use in their classrooms. http://
www.edutopia.org/quiz-tech-savvy-teaching
Focusing on Customized Teaching:
The special effects of personalized teaching
on students’ routine and performance have
been well documented. What may be less
understood and perhaps as important for
the long-term feasibility of it, customized
teaching is, in practical terms, focusing in a
more structured way on each child’s learning
in order to enhance progress, achievement
and participation. All children and young
people have the right to receive support
and challenge, tailored to their needs,
interests and abilities. This demands active
commitment from pupils, responsiveness from
teachers and engagement from parents.
Teaching in the 21 century focuses on
education services that are designed around
the needs of each child, with the expectation
that all learners achieve high standards.
All children and young people leave school
with functional skills in core subjects,
understanding how to learn, think creatively,
take risks and handle changes. Teachers use
their skills and knowledge to engage children
and young people as partners in learning,
acting quickly to adjust their teaching in
response to pupils’ learning.
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Paving the way
for Authentic Teaching:
Authentic teaching basically focuses on giving
children real experiences, finding complex
problems and their solutions; authentic
learning encourages probe and participation.
Students of today express their preference
for doing rather than listening. What they
know from their teachers the same they want
to test and apply to prove its validity. A well
articulated and planned teaching on giving
children real learning experience brings about
tremendous lifelong learning. In comparison
to chalk and talk and plain teaching, it has
far reaching positive effects as it enhances
learning.
• Cognitive capacity to think, solve
problems, and generate
• Affective capacity to value, appreciate,
and care
• Psychomotor capacity to move, perceive,
and apply physical skills
Teaching out
of the Box:
O
ut of the Box Teaching uses a
holistic approach tailored to meet
the student’s individual learning needs
and styles. Curriculum! Lesson plans!
Teaching! Learning! Assignments!
Revision! Class tests! Exams! Grades!
Percentage! and result! Is this total
teaching pattern of your profession?
Just think more and exceptionally new
and different?
Remember, teaching strategies don’t
always have to be straight from the
text books. Yes, there are wonderful
tools and ways to give and share
information with illustrations,
real objects; group activities need
to be performed in your school
lawn, playground or in the town,
streets where the children learn by
performing not by conforming to
sit and listen to teacher’s lecture.
Teaching out of the box encourages
critical thinking skills, problem
solving abilities, and engagement that
is needed to ensure students retain
information. Don’t be afraid to go
outside the box and be a little silly in
your teaching. You’ll be surprised how
much a little bit of creativity helps
your students learn more.
• Combative capacity to act, decide, and
commit.
Teaching Life Skills:
Outside the boundary walls of school, our
children live in highly complex environments
and therefore, face difficult times when they
have to take crucial decisions with regard
to their life and living. There are three basic
drawbacks in our teaching which become
manifest when our children step out of the
school. The first problem they face is to
decide what to do next, what they have in
them to do and how to manage with their
learning experiences.
Most schools nowadays just compete with
each other in terms of success in grades or
percentage of marks. No doubt academic
achievements help a child to establish but
life skills make him the best human being.
Teaching without personal, moral, social and
emotional skill education, is one sided.
Teaching to Develop a
Progressive Future Vision:
Around the world, teaching in schools is
undergoing a dramatic shift. Government
of India in a move to develop the dynamic
vision of education has the New Education
Policy focusing on the holistic learning needs
of the 21 century generation. It will be the
responsibility of educationists, educators
and teachers to shape it to meet the new
challenges of this century.
Building of a progressive teaching vision
seems to be a herculean task in the
metaphorical sense of the phrase as it
needs to amalgamate the present scenario
with the future. By the year 2020 onwards,
the median individual in India will be 29
years. Besides there will be more diversity
issues emerging demographically on gender,
economic status, health, employment levels.
Therefore, again education and teaching
scenario will be a more challenging issue.
New Education Policy will open before us
myriad expectations. So we have to prepare
ourselves to embrace these challenges.
Before I wind up, there is a message
I would like to share with all the
teachers to remind them that children
need their love, patience, compassion and
care, to blossom and spread their supple
branches in all directions. They need to
rise up and fill your garden with beauty
and fragrance. The ongoing month is
full of summer season’s festivities and
children are looking forward to plan
summer holidays but for teachers,
educators, administrators, it is the
time to see wider and shape the nation
through education.
When I was taking a round of our school
building in the evening as the children
and teachers in their hostel rooms were
about to get lost in their dream world, I
stood near a board displaying the lines of
Robert Frost -
The Woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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