Posted by teacher on
March 17, 2007
With the world opening up its frontiers and people talking of a “global village” you need a language to bind all men together. The onus is on English. So these days more and more people from non English-speaking countries are going in for English lessons. From this stems the popularity of the profession of teaching English as a second language.
When you are teaching English as a second language, your students will be people whose native language is not English. Thus your class may consist of children in non English-speaking countries who are required to learn English as part of their syllabi. There may be migrants to English-speaking countries who need to learn the language in order to get employment and citizenship in their adopted land and also businessmen who wish to learn the language in order to communicate with their counterparts in the English-speaking regions of the world.
Thus as someone teaching English as a second language, the location of your job may or may not be in an English-speaking country. In fact, with Asia emerging as economic powers, teaching English as a second language is a lucrative career option there, besides the added lure of getting to visit a new place.
Teaching English has a prospects of fat pay packets when you are working overseas and traveling. There is also the very satisfying feeling that you are, in your own small way, contributing to the creation of “One World, One Language”.
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Posted by teacher on
March 8, 2007
By Basant Pandey
The main problem faced by today’s teacher is that they feel students are loosing interest in studies. If we look from the student’s perspective then students feel that whatever is taught to them in schools is boring. Being a teacher, I faced these problems and tried to solve them. Based on my experiences, some of the solutions to increase interest and curiosity in students towards studies are:
1. In a class of 30-40 students there may be more than 20-25 hobbies now the teacher’s job is to correlate these hobbies with their studies. Suppose a student has a hobby of collecting stamps. The History teacher can ask the students to bring all stamps with Famous personalities printed on it and with the help of these stamps, the lesson can be made interesting. Other student may like something else that can make our classroom teaching well.
2. What would happen if ….. For example a science teacher while teaching about sun and universe can ask what would happen if these will be no nights/days. Let student give different answers and write all of them point wise on the Board. This will develop imagination and creativity among students and they will learn importance of the rotation of earth and the functioning of solar system.
3. Generally a few students leads group discussion and others remain quite. This tendency create inferiority complex among those who did not participated in discussion. We know that all students are not equally skilled. Therefore it is better to make 4-5 groups in the class have almost same level of communication skill. This division is good only not for slow learners but also effective for the high achievers.
4. Boring theory classes make student dull and inactive. Suppose a teaching about germination of seeds and reproduction in plants. The best way to teach this concept is to assign students some task such as they may be instructed to put same grains in a wet cotton cloth and observe after 8-12 hours. The student will learn more effectively while doing this.
5. The teacher should not expect correct response from the student, every time. In case, the student unable to give correct response, the teacher must not scold his/her rather than doing this the student must be given some clues/hint and encourage to reach the correct answer.
I have successfully implemented these techniques to make learning a pleasure for my students. The results were encouraging and they inspired me to think more about making the process of learning a joy for students.
Basant Pandey
Writes for http://onlineteachers.co.in/
Posted by teacher on
March 1, 2007
Here is How:
Pick a three digit number. The three numbers used must be different. i.e. 123 Reverse that number. 123 becomes 321
Take the smallest three digit number from the largest.
321 – 123 = 198 Take the answer and reverse that number. 198 becomes 891
Add that number to the answer of the subtraction. 891 + 198 = 1089 The answer will be 1089!
A Little Footnote
But I ended with 198 not 1089. This happens if you pick a number like 546. Try to pick consecutive numbers like 123, 345, 765 etc. If it does happen, it is not a problem. Just repeat the stages again starting from 198.
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