WORLD OF EDUCATION

                                             A Lesson for Language Teachers Recently I inspected a school. I had to observe one English lesson in Class X. Teacher was ready with full preparedness. She had planned to involve students in a role play. At the spur of the moment an idea flashed in my mind that I should  test the writing skill of this class in English and Hindi. Testing of writing skill is usually skipped during formal inspections. I asked students to write 2 short paragraphs in about 100 words each both in English and Hindi. The topic was: Today’s Morning Assembly. I got their written responses evaluated. The outcome was disappointing. But a ray of hope beamed. I found one piece of writing which was absolutely error free. I got impressed. After lesson observation that student was called. I was extremely eager to know as to how that particular student had ma...

  ROLE OF TEACHERS TO MAKE INDIA A DEVELOPED COUNTRY     Journey of 1.4 billion country from a developing to a developed nation by 2047 (as is in the air) is not going to be a cake walk. This arduous journey has to meander through its classrooms, laboratories, workshops, playgrounds of schools, colleges and other institutions of higher learning as no nation can fully develop if her citizens do not experience holistic growth. Roads, flyovers, bridges, railways and airports, skyscrapers, space explorations, military preparedness etc. are undoubtedly strong indicators of development and we are doing extremely well but the increase in per capita income is the tallest indicator of development where we are lagging far behind in comparison to the other developed or developing nations. Education opens new vistas of opportunities in life. It equips them to to take considered decisions in their day-to-day life. It instills scientific temper through which they do innovations ...

  Dear Teachers Your Kind Attention ,Please!!! I am inclined to say something on this important academic activity. Teachers in different subjects assign written homework to their students on day-to-day basis. Students do not find any day (except vacation and breaks) when they might avoid it. Teachers predominantly expect students to write answers to the textual questions. What happens in most of the cases is that they copy and paste the readymade answers either dictated and written by teachers on the blackboards or from Internet or from the notebooks of their peers or from books. Very few respond themselves.   Such copied and pasted responses in the notebooks are presented to the teachers who check them largely without meticulous reading. This becomes evident when you find that glaring mistakes exist in the very vicinity of tick marks made in red ink made as a token of having checked the notebooks. Signatures are marked with date so that Headmasters or Principals may r...