Virtual Travel : Egypt

 Cairo : Egypt

1. Lot of busy streets with full of clothing stores. Like kothi area of Hyderabad

2. Arabic culture.

3. Shopping boards with Arabic 

4. Shisha and Hookah

5. Egypt is part of Africa

6. Cairo biggest city in middle east

7. Cairo had 2.3 million population

8. $10 = 160 Egyption pounds

9.Pyramids of Giza

10. Sugarcane

11. Nile river 

Not tourist friendly now a days

Teaching to teachers : Article series - 03 : Very basics : Speaking a fun word

Speaking a fun word or telling a joke during the session is one of the best techniques of getting attention towards speaker in any form of public speaking. Be it at teaching, at a public speaking or at any other occasion.
Humans, by very nature love comedy. It is not necessary that every teacher or speaker should tell a joke at each session to audience. A well taught teacher could simply avoid this quality / tip. But having fun during lecture relieves self and class room.
Joke or fun words can be from external or internal. Teacher can pick a recent incident or activity which have some scope for fun. Or you can make fun of some system or actor. Sometimes students may also initiates some fun stuff.
But, while using this technique teacher should be careful of the direction towards which the activity is going on. If fun activity is more and students get deviated towards unnecessary topics then whole session gets affected and students may not concentrate on actual topic of the session. So we should cut it at the right time and continue the talk.

Teaching to teachers : Article series - 02 : Very basics : Involving students in the session

One of the core techniques of teaching is to make students involve in the session. Many a times, students may be bored of listening to the class. Because of various reasons, they may not be interested in our class. So they show the same dull/lame or boring faces towards us. During this time if we start the class, it will be more burden and hammering to their minds. So we should do something to involve them in the class.
First technique is the smiley face of the teacher. A good smile definitely awakes half of the class to consciously recognize that teacher / professor came to class premises. After entering the class if we sense above boring conditions, we can reach one or two students, smile and we can wish them and talk to them with low voice about something that come to your mind about the class.  Like asking, how is it today. They may not tell that it is boring and they don’t want to listen the session but this gesture prepares the class environment that there will be another session going to start.

If possible (based on environment in the class) following techniques or tips can be used to first 2-3 minutes of the session.
1. Asking to the class, which team have won yesterday’s football / cricket match.
2. Which is the best web series you guys are watching at homes recently.
3. When will be this class going for this year’s picnic /tour somewhere etc.

So, like these questions you can talk unrelated topics to change the mood of the class. It will not deviate complete interest of the class since we will stop it after 1-2 minutes and start the session.

Also, during the session, ask a simple or straight forward questions to students randomly. This also keeps brings activeness in the class room.

Also, walk among students and teach / explain. This also makes students to be alert and involve.
So friends, above are some tips to involve students during the session. We will discuss more in coming articles.

# My Good Qualities : Identifying something or someone good at very early stages

Walking in Santiago, Chile

Prayer

Inspirational writing - Article - 01

image courtesy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOjPiv3ZB0

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.   

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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…

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.