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Sunday 11 November 2018
Tuesday 28 August 2018
Teaching to teachers : Article series - 01 : Very basics : Articulation
“Misery in the world is not due to bad students, but due to
bad teachers”
I would like to run a series of articles on better teaching
basics. Intention of this series is to help aspirants who wish to become good teachers
/ existing teachers who want to increase their skills in the profession.
In this article let’s discus about one of the basic
qualities of teaching, that is,
Articulation. Wiki
meaning for this word is, “the formation
of clear and distinct sounds in speech”. We should know how to speak during
the lecture / session. We should know where to rise the voice and where to make
it low. We should have command over the sentences we phrase. Sometimes you can
take the liberty of a shout if it needs. If you can make your words clear to audience
/ students it’s ok with the general grammar instead of looking / searching for
clear cut sentences according to English grammar. Ultimately, the goal is, our
topic should be well understood by the students / participants by the end. It
may not be 100 % relative to this topic, but to refer with the context, examine
the famous “I have a dream speech” by Martin Luther King Jr. How he has
command, articulation, more ever the flow he attains during the speech.
And, having articulation is not the only quality a teacher
required but it helps in delivering the lecture better. There are teachers who
are not much good with articulation but still they managed to run the show
better. But, I believe it is their interest and movement of words that achieves
the task during the lecture. So, to conclude practicing better articulation
really helps the speaker to deliver the lecture in a beautiful way.
In the coming articles, let’s discuss about the other qualities like involving students during the class, speak a fun word, clarity of the topic that’s going to be delivered in the class and so on…
Friday 22 June 2018
Does the passage of time heals inner wounds ?
As shown in our Indian movies particularly, where hero have
wounded past and living a simple life and goes to flash back in second half of
the movie where he had glorious past. But my this thought is against it. I
believe that in maximum cases, passage of time gives relieve from the wounds
and will create new opportunities, new goals, new life. The ‘new’ may be not
more / less like past ( before wounds) but it will be definitely different from
the state of panic. And, in my opinion, it is the amount or level of wounds
that person experiences and how he / she takes it to heart meaning, loosing a loved one for a person may
not be that panic / painful for years. But for other it is a lot. It means they
felt too bad and sad about. So, for the second case , it takes very long time
to get relief from the wound.
'The very beauty of
nature is ‘change’. Gone yesterday will never come. Think how it could be if,
time is constant and we are in yesterday continuously. No relief from pain for
the person experiencing yesterday, no end of joy for the person, no change of conditioning
and so on…'
It is not only the time that may heals inner wounds but
there are other factors contributing like change of place, meeting some awesome
person, changing diet or medicine, reading an excellent book or a note that
quickly relives from pain etc.. And , the other case , as I was mentioning
earlier it takes a life time for some people to heal a wound. Psychologically,
it is different from person to person. It was shared to me from one of good counselor
and church priest ( Rev.Fr.
Kulandaisamy) that wounds in a person may originate at an age as early as when
he / she was in womb. One girl, when he was counseling shared that the reason
for her pain was her mother don’t want to give birth since she is a girl child.
So, she listened to it at very early age and carried the thought throughout her
life and feeling too sad over the years. For her time played some role but didn’t
healed her completely. To conclude, time may heal the wounds of person since it
is dynamic and ever moving, but in particular cases it is through prayer, meeting,
sharing to people, getting counselled, forgetfulness, or self-realization that
helps to heal and excel.
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