Personal Teaching Philosophy

Personal Teaching Philosophy

  Philosophy of My Teaching

“Learn something new every day. Good teachers are good students first”.

Since 1997 I strongly believe in 3Ls which I apply in my Teaching Practice

L1--- Love towards learning

L2--- Love towards students

L3--- Love towards teaching profession

Love towards learning:

“In class talk less and listen more’. A big part of teaching is learning from your students, peer group and adopt oneself to the philosophy of the school where we work. ‘All teachers make mistakes. Good teachers admit them’. I always like to be one among them.

The places where I worked earlier I did not get enough opportunities to learn for the growth of my profession. In Shishu Mandir learning became a part and parcel of my daily life. I started to learn phonetics as a foundation for reading and training in Hippo Campus to take care of our school library which was a regular learning to me till now.

Then my interaction with TTF from the year 2003 till 2014 is a boon for my teaching career when I learnt various methodologies and teaching strategies through the sessions of Wipro Applying Thought, Touch Stone, British Council-CiSELT and this year coaching for School Success. All these courses helped me to climb the steps gradually in the path of learning.

This year our school got a chance to participate in ISA project. In one of my lessons I planned to invite a hawker to our school and the children interviewed her. This LOTC activity which I learnt from the TTF training helped me to enhance this skill in this ISA project.

  

Love towards students:

I always remembered or recalled all the dumb things my teachers did when I was in school, and I never tried to repeat them. At the same time I think about the teachers who inspired me the most who are my role models and I find ways to be more like them. I believe in giving lots of second chances and I do not bear grudges with the students that show my affection with them.

Last year 2013-14 when I was the class teacher of class 4, it was a big challenge for me when I faced with a boy Uday Kumar. He was psychologically affected with his family situation as his mother burnt herself in front of him. She was bed ridden for a year with her 60% burnt burns. In this situation the boy was totally worried about his mom than his studies. 

As a class teacher I showed him the love and the concern which helped him to understand that our school is there to solve his problem. With the help of all the teachers we could get him back to school to continue his studies. This year whenever I see him I remember the words of our former president Mr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam “If you are the teacher in whatever capacity, you have a very special role to play because more than anybody else it is you who are shaping the future generation”. Thus I believe in change and I like to be a torch- bearer of the change.

Here is an example of my first batch student Ms. Humrutha Gunasekar who gave her feedback about me. I thank her for expressing her thoughts about me.

Name             : Humrutha G

Designation  : Ph.D. (Aerospace), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Email              : humruthag@gmail.com

Achievements:

·         Secured 92.4% in SSLC Board Examinations.

·         Obtained 92.75% in HSC Board Examinations.

·         Attained 9^th Rank in B.E. (Aeronautical Engineering), Anna University, Chennai.

·         GATE All India Rank 290 with a percentile of 94.4 in the stream of Aerospace Engineering.

·         Currently pursuing my Direct Ph.D. in High Speed and Rocket Aerodynamics.

I had the pleasure of meeting my mentor as my first grade teacher in 1997. Stella ma’am, right from my first grade until today has always been my biggest pillar of support in my academics and in my life. I would like to thank her for offering a very constructive coaching in a very unique style and for her constant guidance in every step of my career. Her teaching was very precise and helped me to visualize and understand the basic concepts practically in a lively and interacting classroom. She intended in stimulating the creativity among pupils. This approach helped all her students, including me, to boost their confidence level and made her a very loveable teacher whom we all respect and cherish.

Stella Ma’am has always encouraged a healthy competition among the students and took special care of each student. Since my mother was working during my school days and usually cannot make it to home early in the evening, I started staying with Stella Ma’am in her home until my mother picks me up. So I do have a very personal affection towards her. She taught me things beyond the book and shaped my character. I feel proud to say that I still follow, and will always follow, the moral values she taught me. She encouraged me to communicate in English with her and helped me in developing my soft skills. She provided me a platform to express my talents and explore the knowledge. She seeded the curiosity in me, towards science and taught me to question everything happening around me to get vast quanta of knowledge.

From my school days, she was not only a teacher and mentor, but also like my family member. I take this opportunity to mention a much cherished incident happened in my first grade. Being my science instructor in my grade one, Stella ma’am taught me to draw a human heart. Upon drawing, I started coloring it in red. When ma’am asked me the reason to use red color, I replied, “I recognize the heart must be in red, since its pumping blood, which itself is red in color”. She appreciated me a lot for my reply and narrated this incident to my parents. She also mentioned to my parents that I will shine brightly in my future.

My parents remember her as the first person to identify the real talent in me. She is the perfect example of all the qualities a teacher should possess. It’s my greatest pleasure to mention that Stella ma’am was behind me in all my success and I hope she will be there to encourage me in all my future missions. I sincerely wish that the teaching service of Mrs. Stella Mary would reach and enlighten the minds of many students for their bright and shining future.

Love towards teaching profession:

Being flexible in my teaching profession is my strength. The most precious gift to give to my profession is my time, which I love to spend to each student every day. I do what’s right and just even if it hurts for a little while.

As the Bible says, “You are the light to the world”.  I also wanted my career as a light to the students with whom I am involved. To build a winning or interactive classroom – one child at a time helped me a lot to teach the entire class only by focusing on individual learners. Being aware of my body language sometimes my postures, gestures or facial expressions speak louder than my words is very important to grab the students’ attention.

  My journey with Shishu is a call from God. He has chosen me to serve for the economically poor children as well as the first generation learner in giving education is a pressure to me as  the methodology of teaching in Shishu is entirely different from other schools. With the grace of the Almighty, I am happily continuing my career since 13 years.

‘Sow a thought, reap an action’

‘Sow an action, reap a habit’

‘Sow a habit, reap a character’

  While reaping out the action, habit and a character of our children I see the positive growth in our children as well as in my profession. I feel I am blessed abundantly and also my family is filled with showers of blessings from God.

                                       

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