Skill Letts
VIEWS, VOICE & WAYS OF SKILLS
An in house journal of Additional Skill Acquisition Programme
It was these small changes that build up over time that help cultivating a self – image and selfesteem among them. By engaging their minds in class, they’ ll develop more solid, integrated, useful understanding of concepts. By providing them frequent feedbacks on limitations of their knowledge will take a charge on their learning, they will automatically start seeking information and experiences they need to progress. We must be the lifelong learners and we need to transform our students as lifelong learners. It was rather challenging but embracing all the challenges and taking it as an opportunity we moved further.
NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
-Anjana S
SDE
“ A teacher affects eternity. No one can tell where his influence stops”-Henry Adams
Being a teacher is a rare privilege. A privilege synonymous with responsibility, obligation and commitment. You are being looked upon and you behold within you the fortune to inspire. You possess the power and potential to change the world. You can’ t afford to take the position lightly because the impact a teacher has on his / her students are enormous and it knew no leaps and bounds. Apart from inculcating education and moral values the pivotal role of a teacher is to encourage the students to find themselves. After all realising one’ s true ability and potential is the greatest discovery ever. Mark Von Doren rightly observes:“ The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery”.
A teacher is expected to play a positive role in moulding the character of a student. Teacher( guru) is a person who possesses the power to disperse the darkness within a student. A teacher should be able to annihilate the darkness cast upon by ignorance and should endow the light of knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge never diminishes or tails off when shared or imparted, less it magnifies in clarity and conviction, benefitting the patron and the receiver alike.
Children are like free radicals. Full of vibrancy, enthusiasm, curiosity and pulsating with free will and spirit. Today majority of educational institutions rampantly follow the tenet of restriction and constraint. Innovation and curiosity are strangled by regulations, requirements and numerous other boundaries. How can you expect the students to thrive in a system hell-bent on standardisation? Students should be given wings to pursue their dreams and aspirations. It is indeed a herculean and phenomenal task. But not unattainable. Because there is nothing in this world powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A‘ you can do it’ when things are tough.
The Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai is quite right when she observes: " One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world”.
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