Dear Laxmanrao sir, Teachers and educationists agree that initial learning must be in the mother tongue. unfortunately, in society today, there is a very huge premium on learning English, which makes parents want English medium schools from class 1.
we teachers need to educate parents/society that the best way to learn English is not to have it as a medium in LPS but rather have it as second / third language. if teachers are made capable to teach english using rich and diverse materials (text, audio, video) then students can learn to speak, understand English quite well... for this we need to provide an english materials rich class environment. English teachers can create simple audio, video resources for language learning and use with the students.. such as photo essays, audio books, digital stories etc .... this is a better option than making English as medium of instruction, which is the cause of failure of many students... my views. comments welcome.. regards Guru IT for Change, Bengaluru www.ITforChange.net On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:26 PM, laxmanrao ayachithula < laxmanrao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Every country has some positive and negative points of progress. Though > the education system of Finland is good and acceptable, we should think in > what way and to what extent we adopt or adapt with that. Not every inch of > other countries is good and in the same way not every inch of out past is > bad. Let noble thoughts come from all the corners of the universe is our > philosophy. Wherever and whichever is good and useful that we admit, but we > don’t ignore everything of our past in the name of something chosen like > education was not for all in those days. Now no one says it its to followed > but what are our needs and objectives of education that we should think and > follow. up to primary it should be compulsory to impart education in mother > tongue. Later on let them go for any of the media. As an Indian I am not > against to English as a language but as a medium of instruction it doesn't > work out in getting the concept and explain. May be some differ with this > opinion. > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Gurumurthy K <itfc.stfk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Sir >> >> I don't have details about their examination system, but i do know that >> they do not have the huge competitive pressures from exams like we have >> here. >> >> but following links may be useful >> >> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/?no-ist >> (nice article - Finland also has a kind of no detention policy) >> >> http://www.oph.fi/english/education_system >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Finland >> >> regards >> Guru >> >> >> >> IT for Change, Bengaluru >> www.ITforChange.net >> >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Harishchandra Prabhu < >> hari.panjikal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> ಸರ್ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಲೇಖನ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲಿಯ ಪರೀಕ್ಷಾ ಪಧ್ಧತಿ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ >>> ಇದೆಯಾ ಸರ್? >>> >>> >>> *ಹರಿಶ್ಚಂದ್ರ . ಪಿ.* >>> ಸಮಾಜ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಶಿಕ್ಷಕರು >>> ಸರಕಾರಿ ಪದವಿ ಪೂವF ಕಾಲೇಜು ಬೆಳ್ಳಾರೆ , ಸುಳ್ಯ ,ದ.ಕ 574212 >>> e-mail: hari.panjikal...@gmail.com >>> blog:NammaBellare.blogspot.com >>> school blog:* gpucbellare.blogspot.com >>> <http://gpucbellare.blogspot.com>* >>> mobile: 9449592475 >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Basavaraja Naika H.D. < >>> basavarajanaik...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> How better nonformal education in Finland >>>> On 21-Mar-2016 7:30 pm, "Krishnakumar s" <skumaryellampa...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Very nice article sir, Why can't we apply the same system? The Great >>>>> KES Officers are the main cause for failure of education sytem in >>>>> karnataka. As soon as they passed KES exam and become officers, the feel >>>>> that they know everything and try to dominate without any hold on either >>>>> language or content. This is our fate. That is why now our DIETs have >>>>> Rehabitation Centres(Ganji Kendra) >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Gurumurthy K <itfc.stfk...@gmail.com >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Dear teachers >>>>>> >>>>>> article worth reading and thinking about and discussing.... comments >>>>>> welcome.... >>>>>> >>>>>> regards >>>>>> Guru >>>>>> >>>>>> The Harvard education professor Howard Gardner once advised >>>>>> Americans, “Learn from Finland, which has the most effective schools and >>>>>> which does just about the opposite of what we are doing in the United >>>>>> States.” >>>>>> >>>>>> I enrolled my 7-year-old son in a primary school in Joensuu, >>>>>> Finland. For five months, my wife, my son and I experienced a stunningly >>>>>> stress-free, and stunningly good, school system. Finland has a history of >>>>>> producing the highest global test scores in the Western world, as well >>>>>> as a >>>>>> trophy case full of other recent No. 1 global rankings, including most >>>>>> literate nation. >>>>>> >>>>>> In Finland, children don't receive formal academic training until the >>>>>> age of 7. Until then, many are in day care and learn through play, songs, >>>>>> games and conversation. Most children walk or bike to school, even the >>>>>> youngest. School hours are short and homework is generally light. >>>>>> >>>>>> Unlike in the United States, where many schools are slashing recess, >>>>>> schoolchildren in Finland have a mandatory 15-minute outdoor free-play >>>>>> break every hour of every day. Fresh air, nature and regular physical >>>>>> activity breaks are considered engines of learning. According to one >>>>>> Finnish maxim, “There is no bad weather. Only inadequate clothing.” >>>>>> >>>>>> One evening, I asked my son what he did for gym that day. “They sent >>>>>> us into the woods with a map and compass and we had to find our way out,” >>>>>> he said. >>>>>> >>>>>> Finland doesn't waste time or money on low-quality mass standardized >>>>>> testing. Instead, children are assessed every day, through direct >>>>>> observation, check-ins and quizzes by the highest-quality “personalized >>>>>> learning device” ever created — flesh-and-blood teachers. >>>>>> >>>>>> In class, children are allowed to have fun, giggle and daydream from >>>>>> time to time. Finns put into practice the cultural mantras I heard over >>>>>> and >>>>>> over: “Let children be children,” “The work of a child is to play,” and >>>>>> “Children learn best through play.” >>>>>> The emotional climate of the typical classroom is warm, safe, >>>>>> respectful and highly supportive. >>>>>> >>>>>> The emotional climate of the typical classroom is warm, safe, >>>>>> respectful and highly supportive. There are no scripted lessons and no >>>>>> quasi-martial requirements to walk in straight lines or sit up straight. >>>>>> As >>>>>> one Chinese student-teacher studying in Finland marveled to me, “In >>>>>> Chinese >>>>>> schools, you feel like you're in the military. Here, you feel like you're >>>>>> part of a really nice family.” She is trying to figure out how she can >>>>>> stay >>>>>> in Finland permanently. >>>>>> >>>>>> In the United States, teachers are routinely degraded by politicians, >>>>>> and thousands of teacher slots are filled by temps with six or seven >>>>>> weeks >>>>>> of summer training. In Finland teachers are the most trusted and admired >>>>>> professionals next to doctors, in part because they are required to have >>>>>> master's degrees in education with specialization in research and >>>>>> classroom >>>>>> practice. >>>>>> >>>>>> “Our mission as adults is to protect our children from politicians,” >>>>>> one Finnish childhood education professor told me. “We also have an >>>>>> ethical >>>>>> and moral responsibility to tell businesspeople to stay out of our >>>>>> building.” In fact, any Finnish citizen is free to visit any school >>>>>> whenever they like, but her message was clear: Educators are the ultimate >>>>>> authorities on education, not bureaucrats, and not technology vendors. >>>>>> >>>>>> Skeptics might claim that the Finnish model would never work in >>>>>> America's inner-city schools, which instead need boot-camp drilling and >>>>>> discipline, Stakhanovite workloads, relentless standardized test prep and >>>>>> screen-delivered testing. >>>>>> >>>>>> But what if the opposite is true? >>>>>> >>>>>> What if high-poverty students are the children most urgently in need >>>>>> of the benefits that, for example, American parents of means obtain for >>>>>> their children in private schools, things that Finland delivers on a >>>>>> national public scale — highly qualified, highly respected and highly >>>>>> professionalized teachers who conduct personalized one-on-one >>>>>> instruction; >>>>>> manageable class sizes; a rich, developmentally correct curriculum; >>>>>> regular >>>>>> physical activity; little or no low-quality standardized tests and the >>>>>> toxic stress and wasted time and energy that accompanies them; daily >>>>>> assessments by teachers; and a classroom atmosphere of safety, >>>>>> collaboration, warmth and respect for children as cherished individuals? >>>>>> >>>>>> Why should high-poverty students deserve anything less? >>>>>> >>>>>> One day last November, when the first snow came to my part of >>>>>> Finland, I heard a commotion outside my university faculty office window, >>>>>> which is close to the teacher training school's outdoor play area. I >>>>>> walked >>>>>> over to investigate. >>>>>> >>>>>> The field was filled with children savoring the first taste of winter >>>>>> amid the pine trees. My son was out there somewhere, but the children >>>>>> were >>>>>> so buried in winter clothes and moving so fast that I couldn't spot him. >>>>>> The noise of children laughing, shouting and singing as they tumbled in >>>>>> the >>>>>> fresh snow was close to deafening. >>>>>> >>>>>> “Do you hear that?” asked the recess monitor, a special education >>>>>> teacher wearing a yellow safety smock. >>>>>> >>>>>> “That,” she said proudly, “is the voice of happiness.” >>>>>> >>>>>> William Doyle is a 2015-2016 Fulbright scholar and a lecturer on >>>>>> media and education at the University of Eastern Finland. His latest book >>>>>> is “PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival and the Destiny of John F. >>>>>> Kennedy.” >>>>>> >>>>>> source- Why Finland has the best schools >>>>>> <http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0318-doyle-finnish-schools-20160318-story.html> >>>>>> >>>>>> regards, >>>>>> Guru >>>>>> IT for Change, Bengaluru >>>>>> www.ITforChange.net >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> *For doubts on Ubuntu and other public software, visit >>>>>> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions >>>>>> >>>>>> **Are you using pirated software? 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