http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/entry.php?u=jaipurschool&e_id=1565
--check it out for latest teaching strategies compilation while I took the
couse on Reading & Writing at Harvard
I just put it in one place on Bihu.in since on AssamNet we have a memory space
limitation
Umesh
PS: It takes time and hands-on learning to implement these techniques - cannot
do it on the first of day of school - even if you have the willingness - and
also towards the end of the schoolday you might be too exhausted to be really
pro-active - and might go with the flow. Supervision of your work keeps you
alert -- though
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SUPERVISION:
Some might have read this old note I put on AssamNet about link between
supervision and performance improvement :
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/entry.php?u=jaipurschool&e_id=936
Hawthorne experiments of 1930s
Also, Parkison's quote -- much quoted by my father :
"Work expands to fill the time available"
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/c._northcote_parkinson/
Thus, supervision helps you focus on your tasks -- however good you think you
may be.
Ploitics:
Ofcourse, those who engage in office politics may use it for cutting you down
(as I faced somewhat while working at my father's school in India and he
wishing to protect his image at school would take swift action on my
littlest errors (first graders 5 yearold making "too much noise" in my extra
class [when all other kids are playing outside and they are made to study and
improve math and reading" - whereas others would get by with much more
egregious blunders - the replacement for me was too old to go after the
children when they ran outside - so I had to pitch in to help].
Phobia:
Thus, I am really afraid of supervisors but slowly begin to trust (and smile
as I usually do with students -sometimes too much and then cut back and appear
mean) - realizing that it is not my father's school .
TEACHER TRAINING
experience at www.bellnational.org :
: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/entry.php?u=jaipurschool&e_id=477 in 2006
run by Harvard graduates --like my current job where the focus on Teacher
training is on Role Play -- I wish I could videotape myself and the session
yesterday when one of the supervisors showed me how to work with a student
trying to do sentence completion (fill up the blanks) and put it one You Tube
etc - stage managed sessions can never have the spontaniety.
Cultural Borat, girl students and Taliban
Ofcourse, some students (as well as teachers) never learn and follow their
habits for long - changing habits can be hard.
But smiling is easy - if your supervisor wants you to smile -- (even if some
students joke about Borat - the latest immigrant fad - while in your class) -
culture learning is difficult for a newcomer to a country - what jokes would go
well with teenaged girls and which would not - ho w much to smile and how much
to talk -- in Afghanistan you might be shot for teaching teenaged girls - by
Taliban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542105/posts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borat I too have started wearing a coat and tie
like Borat does
Though no more about my current job -since I have realized the power of
internet searches after my Nov 2005 job interview which I posted on AssamNet
and I sense made the school drop their interest in me :
http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/2005-November/002340.html
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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