Category Archives: Work

Conflict of values

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*As a matter of principle, I avoid blogging about my workplace or my boss or colleagues. This post is in no way directed towards them. After having read my so-called statutory warning, you may continue reading.

There is a thought that has been bothering me for a while now and I dont know how important or relevant it is for survival in todays world.

What happens when you realise that your personal values are in conflict with the organisational values? Doesnt it then become difficult for you to continue working in such an environment? Or is it that it needs to be taken like a pinch of salt and be ignored as if its none of your business. Does it happen that ways, that you work, you get paid. Period? No one’s hired you to do moral policing for them so you shut your values crap?

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ICT Education in Pre-service Teacher Education Programme in Delhi

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Teachers lie at the core of any living society. They are important mediators of social change, social reconstruction and social rejuvenation. A teacher’s role is not only that of the leader of the children but of the guide to the entire community. Teachers being so vitally important for any society, the task of their preparation and education assumes equal importance.

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies in education and training programmes has profound influence in teaching and teacher preparation. The student accesses knowledge and information through Internet, TV, satellite and cable network and digital media to synchronise learning mediated through these multiple delivery mechanisms.

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Globalisation and Educational challenges

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Globalisation is a qualitatively new phenomenon of multi-dimensional nature posing a variety of complex trends in the economic, social and cultural fabrics of all societies. It impacts on all conceivable facets of life, including education. Consequently, education services are naturally commercialised, privatised and capitalised. Education can be seen wearing a new face-‘modernised’ for a knowledge economy based on information technologies. Its values, preferences and tastes have certainly become different due to globalisation.

It is evident that the dawn of the new age in India has been characterised by unimaginable advances in knowledge, triggering major changes in the objectives, contents, and methods of higher education. The globalisation of the economy and its accompanying demands on the workforce requires a different education that enhances the ability of learners to access, assess, adopt, and apply knowledge, to think independently to exercise appropriate judgement and to collaborate with others to make sense of new situations. The objective of education is no longer simply to convey a body of knowledge, but to teach how to learn, problem-solve and synthesise the old with the new.

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Teaching is fun

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There are days when I would really contradict the title. But the fact remains I am just loving every bit of it.

I dont deny the fact that there are days when I feel I am done with this profession and get worried to look around for something new to keep me busy. Infact today began as one such day. But by the end of it all, I had a smile on my face and I guess that just said it all.

What frustrates me in this profession is its pace and what excites is the immediate response you get for your performance. You just simply know for yourself that you just had a great class. The spark in your kids ( yeah yeah… I refer to my students as kids now… feel so old :-P ) just gives that high that I got no words to explain that feeling. I can just simply sing …. :)

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Lesson plan based on Concept Attainment Model (CAM)

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TOPIC: Recyclable waste products

CLASS: V

OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

1. Think inductively so that, given a set of examples (recyclable items) and contrasting instances (non-recyclable items), they will identify the defining characteristics of recycling.

2. Identify and categorize the waste products that can be recycled in the United States and those which cannot.

3. Examine recycling availability within their home, school, and community, and give reasons for the need to recycle.

4. Offer suggestions to increase recycling awareness within their community and plan ways in which they can recycle more.

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A humble beginning

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For a long time, me and a friend of mine had wished to start an educational portal. But the plan never really took off. Then I got this brilliant idea of using this site as a means to meet my end. This site presented an excellent platform to publish some well written articles by me and my friends.

Today, the first article has finally been posted. Its by my dear friend gunjan and if I get due permission from her I shall put her picture here too :)

For later references, I have specially created a page titled “Articles written” which will in a way provide an index for all the articles ever posted here.

Air Force Schools: A welfare venture

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Today we were discussing about the reasons why teachers working in air force schools are not paid according to fifth pay commision rules. Since the august gathering comprised of air force administrators and principals and the head who handles the financial aspect of the air force schools, the discussion was bound to get heated up.

This is what Grp Capt Goel had to say about this issue:

We should not forget, it is not air force’s main task to run schools, its a welfare mission that we have taken up to ensure and provide education wherever we are. It is a choice between providing no education or education. If the school cant pay for teachers, or there are no teachers, I will close the damn school than to charge exhorbitant amount of fees, I dont care. Our aim is to protect the country. Our main goal is to fight war, and we very well do it and we win it too !!

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Life’s Ironies

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Being a teacher, I am pretty well versed with handling different kinds of students. But imagine my plight when my own teacher becomes my student !!

Beginning today, I am conducting a five day workshop for Air force administrative staff from various Air Force schools of Northern Region. I am a product of an Air force school myself and it never struck me once that my own school principal is going to be there too !!

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