Quotes for us teachers!!

Here are some quotes I like,

• Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions
• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
• A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.
• Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more.
• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
• A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.
• Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts.
• A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.
• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Hope you liked them...

managing children differently

A wise person doesn't do different things but does the common things differently !!
As teachers we all need to remember this. If you want to leave your foot prints on the sand you can't drag your feet you have to walk firmly so that you leave your foot print behind you.
Every child is different.This is the thumb rule a teacher has to keep in mind.Then it will be easier to address the needs of different students differently.It is wrong to correct the child .We need to be prepared for a child's boundless imagination which is not caged like ours.Their strenght of mind always surprises us if we really try to probe into.Teachers find the learn-by-heart pattern very easy as it not challenging. But observation and using sensory organs is the most effective way of learning.
Today I will deal with three challenging behavioural pattern of children
1. Difficulty remaining seated or in aparticular position when required to : Allow for frequent opportunities to move around. Allow space for movement monitoring and instructing not to disturb others in the class.
2.Frequent fidgeting with feet, hand or objects ,squirming in seat.: Give positive reinforcement for accomplishments(this type of behaviour is often due to frustration)Allow alternative movement when ever possible.
3.Frequent Excessive talking.: Reinforce listening Skills. Engage the child in Listening tasks. Entrust the responsibility of class and ask the child to listen to what othres are reading /speaking and ask her to judge.

To all my dear pre-primary teachers,

I would like to share my experience and feelings on what a teacher means to the world and to the innocent child. Though I come from a non-teaching background, being a teacher has been my most soul touching experience! I feel like I'm one among the children, and every emotion of my children makes me realise how important life is,how important we are to them and that we can make or break a person with our good intentions...

I feel childhood is the most formative, enjoyable part of life.Whatever we accept or grasp at this stage remains with us for the rest of our life. A small child knows only the language of love.Till they come to school,they are in the warmth of their parents love and thus adjusting to a new environment like school may seem like a huge mission to them.But when they find similar love in school, they adjust sooner and overcome all their fears. A teacher must first win the heart of the child by understanding , listening and also by being one of them.Once this is accomplished, learning and facing new challenges becomes fun and simple.

New topics taught to the children must be related to day-to-day examples so that the child can understand and relate to it better. A teacher must be a very good listener, in order to inculcate confidence among them.Only by doing so the children open up and share more things.They should feel that their teacher is one among them. Once this is achieved TEACHING, for teachers and EDUCATION for children becomes a cake walk!!