Showing posts with label Students. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Students. Show all posts
January 28, 2017
March 23, 2011
Teachers should be equipped with Laptops
Yeah! Its already late. The teachers of today should now at least be provided with Laptops by the employers. In this age of MNCs and Globalization and Brand value, schools too have started getting the clients as their students and in order to impress the clients (read students) it ihas become very important for the teachers to present the content through latest means of teaching aids.
Thus, we see that the teachers are in dire need of i-pads and smart pads or laptops. When internet has expanded the horizon of knowledge and brought about content-enrichment in the field of various studies, use of tech gadgets as mentioned hitherto is unavoidable. The government may argue that we can give loan to the teachers and they could buy a laptop of their own. But that would sound like an employer asking a teacher about ten-fifteen years back during his appointment to bring a blackboard and chalk-sticks along with him everyday to the school! Yeah! Surely that sounds funny. So this too sounds funny that the employers very generously talk of interst free loans for purchase of laptops by teachers. After all they will recoup the loan amount from the teacher. So what benefit does a teacher get? Nothing.
Teacher is also one of the stake-holders in the system of education who is equipped with knowledge dissemination but the via medium of this dissemination should be provided by the government. Has the government ever done anything beneficial for the teachers except slashing down the pay as and when it desired? The future of the children, which the government talks about the most, should be made safe and secure. Not by giving frrebies but by making each and every child responsible for his acts. If he wins, brings laurels, does some innovation, he should be applauded but if he does something ghastly, he should be tried in child juvenile court by giving exrtra powers to the head of the institutions to initiate such proceedings against him. How mute we stand before the student power sometimes and allow them to grow anti government, anti democratic and unparliamentary. This is not the right foundation we are laying. We are rather digging their graves and they don't understand since they believe on us and the policy makers.
So, it is time their future is really made bright by bringing them to classrooms, a place they actually belong to. They may not loiter out because a teacher's voice is hoarse and he is old and he gives only lectures and he does a lot of talking himself in the class, and he does lot of writing on the blackboard. He may stick to class if his teacher goes well equipped with the videos and clips and games of his subject on his laptop. This will certainly improve the sad face of education in our schools.
Thus, we see that the teachers are in dire need of i-pads and smart pads or laptops. When internet has expanded the horizon of knowledge and brought about content-enrichment in the field of various studies, use of tech gadgets as mentioned hitherto is unavoidable. The government may argue that we can give loan to the teachers and they could buy a laptop of their own. But that would sound like an employer asking a teacher about ten-fifteen years back during his appointment to bring a blackboard and chalk-sticks along with him everyday to the school! Yeah! Surely that sounds funny. So this too sounds funny that the employers very generously talk of interst free loans for purchase of laptops by teachers. After all they will recoup the loan amount from the teacher. So what benefit does a teacher get? Nothing.
Teacher is also one of the stake-holders in the system of education who is equipped with knowledge dissemination but the via medium of this dissemination should be provided by the government. Has the government ever done anything beneficial for the teachers except slashing down the pay as and when it desired? The future of the children, which the government talks about the most, should be made safe and secure. Not by giving frrebies but by making each and every child responsible for his acts. If he wins, brings laurels, does some innovation, he should be applauded but if he does something ghastly, he should be tried in child juvenile court by giving exrtra powers to the head of the institutions to initiate such proceedings against him. How mute we stand before the student power sometimes and allow them to grow anti government, anti democratic and unparliamentary. This is not the right foundation we are laying. We are rather digging their graves and they don't understand since they believe on us and the policy makers.
So, it is time their future is really made bright by bringing them to classrooms, a place they actually belong to. They may not loiter out because a teacher's voice is hoarse and he is old and he gives only lectures and he does a lot of talking himself in the class, and he does lot of writing on the blackboard. He may stick to class if his teacher goes well equipped with the videos and clips and games of his subject on his laptop. This will certainly improve the sad face of education in our schools.
November 11, 2009
Values
"Human values are the priceless trasures from time immemorial".
"The prosperity of the country depends not on the abundance of its resources, nor on the strength of its fortification, not on the beauty of public buildings but its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character". - Martin Luther King.
The above two quotations of eminent personalities are the crux of the concept 'values'. The word 'values' was first used by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1880 and over the centuries it has been cloaked so differntly that it has attained mutifarious ideas. One word 'values' speaks so eloquently about a person who may be a mute wise or a outspoken fool. It conveys the personality of a man. If a man plays no positive role in the society, he lives in, he is regarded valueless.
There are various categories of values:
"The prosperity of the country depends not on the abundance of its resources, nor on the strength of its fortification, not on the beauty of public buildings but its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character". - Martin Luther King.
The above two quotations of eminent personalities are the crux of the concept 'values'. The word 'values' was first used by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1880 and over the centuries it has been cloaked so differntly that it has attained mutifarious ideas. One word 'values' speaks so eloquently about a person who may be a mute wise or a outspoken fool. It conveys the personality of a man. If a man plays no positive role in the society, he lives in, he is regarded valueless.
There are various categories of values:
- Personal
- Social
- Moral
- Spiritual
- Cultural and
- Universal
UNESCO held a summit in 1998 on the theme 'Values in Education'. It finally came out with the following decisions which encourage students to: -
- develop own personal moral codes and have a concern for others.
- reflect on experiences and research for meaning and pattern in their experiences.
- have self-respect and respect for commonly held values such as honesty, truthfulness and justice.
- make socially responsible judgement and be able to provide justification of decisions and actions.
All the above decisions stated above stress the need among the elderly in the communities to develop the budding nation buiders in such a fashion as would be self-dependent one for them. Remember we can only teach 'values' to the children we cannot give them our 'thoughts'. It is our duty to allow the children to grow themselves responsibly. They should not get a chance to blame the elders. They should be allowed to see for themselves what is 'right' and what is 'wrong' and it is this hairline difference between the above stated two terms which if they understood; they will have 'values'.
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