Thank you for your comments On Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:08:40 PM UTC+5:30, kirby wrote: > > I teach one-on-one by means of comments, cues, other feedback, but it's > all in writing. This was the old idea of a "correspondence school" but > with the Internet it all happens much faster. > > Such distance education schools are in addition to traditional classrooms > where people meet a teacher face to face. They are not a replacement. > Traditional classrooms are not going away. It's not either / or. > > Only some subjects and only some types of student (and/or teacher) are > amenable to such schooling methods. I teach computer programming, which is > all about keyboard and screen anyway. > > Having the teacher be physically distant does not mean there's no personal > attention. One need not remain anonymous. On the other hand, if one is > shy, or has no local access to such teachers, but does have Internet > connectivity... technology here offers a sympatico (congenial) solution. > > Kirby > > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:10 AM, atsker <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> >> Formal Education is imparted to the students through educational >> institutions, which acquire life in its classroom through the process of >> actual transaction between the teacher and the students. ’ According to >> Mahatma Gandhi,True Education ‘has to be directed towards the formation of >> the human person in view of his final end and the good of the society to >> which he belongs, and in the duties of which he will as an adult have a >> share.’ When keeping this view,classroom transaction has a paramount >> importance in the process of moulding the future generations for a >> purposeful life based on values. >> What are the things that should be >> transacted? The blind rule is to follow the curriculum. The word >> ‘curriculum ‘ comes from the Latin word ‘currere’ which was the name for >> definite marked roads arranged to run chariot races in Rome.In schools, >> children are given the readymade curriculum, of course framed by eminent >> educators. Education is the chariot, curriculum is the road, and the >> teacher is the charioteer. But why these definite roads?Each student has to >> go through a different road inevitably,atleast that is what life teaches >> us.Each of them may be coming from a different background and equipped with >> a different psychology.So how can a common coursework fit the frame?While >> neglecting the ‘thought of the flaw of the system’ the answer to the >> question lies in the hands of the teacher.It should be the flexibility and >> serviceability of the teacher to find those distinct paths,perhaps for all >> the students he or she handles.And for that to happen effectively,the >> teacher should have a dominant role in selecting his or her students. >> Regarding the technical handling of the >> classroom,the teacher, playing the role of an effective communicator ,is >> urged to devise newer strategies for stimulus variation,focusing,prompting >> questions,redirecting and for overcoming various barriers he confronts.He >> should be with constant preparation to avoid a banal class.He has to be >> decisive every movement and should use psychological principles for proper >> management of the class, rather than resorting to oppressive methods. There >> can be negative comments and naïve judgements on the students part.He has >> to manage the individual temperaments of the 35 or 40 students , as well as >> maintain a ‘collective thinking ‘of the class. >> A symptomatic world , demands all >> people to be teachers .It is the duty of the society to its social >> environment. .The field demands audacity and a lot of patience but the real >> adventure in the classroom transactions, is in the unforeseen result it >> can bring about in the future. >> >>
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