Dear Teachers
Often I come across teachers telling me,'I told the student so many times...'
We forget that in a day we may teach for 5 or 6 periods out of 8 but students sit through all of the 8. we royally walk in and out of classes, expecting the young minds to shift focus asap from Eng to Lang to Sci to Math to Art to Hist to Geog to ...phew so many classes, so many topics, so many different adults!!! And we think school is fun!!
Each time we walk in we expect the students to switch to our subjects in robot like efficiency.
And we expect them to pay full attention - for the Full 40-45 min. Is this humanly possible? Yet we go on and on in the same format. Have we forgotten our childhood?
To top it all we say something or discipline them twice or thrice and we think that is enough.
Dear teachers we need to keep reinforcing. Don't we need reminders? They are children. They are not machines. We may have to tell again and again and again. They may not follow or obey us then, but later in life they would remember.
Delayed gratification is the key.
Till then enjoy the journey.
We forget that in a day we may teach for 5 or 6 periods out of 8 but students sit through all of the 8. we royally walk in and out of classes, expecting the young minds to shift focus asap from Eng to Lang to Sci to Math to Art to Hist to Geog to ...phew so many classes, so many topics, so many different adults!!! And we think school is fun!!
Each time we walk in we expect the students to switch to our subjects in robot like efficiency.
And we expect them to pay full attention - for the Full 40-45 min. Is this humanly possible? Yet we go on and on in the same format. Have we forgotten our childhood?
To top it all we say something or discipline them twice or thrice and we think that is enough.
Dear teachers we need to keep reinforcing. Don't we need reminders? They are children. They are not machines. We may have to tell again and again and again. They may not follow or obey us then, but later in life they would remember.
Delayed gratification is the key.
Till then enjoy the journey.
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