Friday, September 25, 2009

Finding the "Motivation Trigger"

Learning is a life long quest and the role of a teacher is to initiate his students into that journey. But the teacher should also realize that he will not be besides his student for ever, and need to inspire students to develop an interest in the subject which goes beyond the class and love for learning itself...

There could many ways that this can be done, a select few teachers use their own personality to motivate students to seek beyond the obvious and seek out for more knowledge on a continuous basis, but then I feel that such teachers are far and between. For lesser mortals I feel one needs to put extra effort into understand the "triggers" that motivate his or her students to learn more....

I think the anecdote of teaching to fish versus giving a fish might fit in here with a slight modification, As teacher one needs to find what motivates the students to look for fish and then work on it so that the students themselves start looking for fish and develop newer ways and means of catching more fish.

And one also must realize that this driving force keeps changing with time , so the teacher also needs to keep his antennas up at all times to both identify as well as update his understanding of these triggers...

Friday, September 04, 2009

Teacher's Day

I have not written on the blog for two months, today being Teacher's day thought will write a small post to remember our teachers.

I don't think there would be anyone who would not acknowledge the role teachers have played in their lives. Dr Abdul Kalam in his book 'Wings of fire' remembers the explanation on how birds fly given to him in his school days by his teacher inspiring him to pursue further studies in the area. Manyof us have such small stories and memories relating to our teacher...

Today's editorial in Economic times, also talks about the role of teachers (5 million teaching 220 million children) especially in the context of the passing of right to education bill. The article also talks about how one needs to look at teachers as change agents and not just resources....

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