Tuesday, June 10, 2014
What is Teaching to me?
“What Teaching means to Me”
Yeshi Jamtsho
Teaching is a transmission of knowledge, skills and values to someone who needs. It happens voluntarily in most of the cases, but in some cases it needs to be enforced as it is necessitated by the situation. For instance, the children of today cannot afford to be unaware of computer skills as it is the age of the computer. Teaching happens when a person with adequate knowledge and skills willingly imparts to those novice who requires it the most. Teaching appears to bear its beauty when a learner begins to find taste in it and appreciates the values of what one receives from the giver. In the past, some considered teaching as parallel to preaching. In fact, they are first cousins but not identical twins. Preaching would happen irrespective of learner’s interest and ability and it is mostly dominated by dos and don’ts and not allowing an inch to budge away from what is mandated. But in teaching, there are several factors to be considered prior to the action that takes place. The first priority would be the learner’s need to learn something. It should be probed by attitude and aptitude. Unless these pre-requisites are prevalent, the teaching is not likely to happen. Therefore, to garner the string of teaching, one should visualize the factors aforementioned.
Teaching to me is a special task. This is because I have taken up the teaching for my profession. This is my pillar that supports my life. I cannot plough fields as a farmer would do, nor can I weld an iron piece as a blacksmith could because I am not meant for it. We all have our own choice of living and surviving. I have opted teaching for my profession as it appeared the most suitable for me. Many vocations and professions were not to my interest and somewhere not to my caliber. Those made me ruminate that the teaching is a “gift for me” and I must embrace it, for the rest of my life. I should find joy in it and must perform it without hesitation.
Having mentioned that teaching is my profession, I take it as a challenge. It is a challenge because nothing in the world is as simple as one might imagine. Everything that one does is accompanied with certain difficulties. It is the difficulty that makes one find satisfaction at the end of the task. The end of the task is labeled as “achievement”. The achievement is what everybody desires.
Teaching for me is a great pride. I take pride in it because not many people dare to take up this job. To be a teacher is Columbus. Everyone taking up this job is a “Columbus”. A person without a proper set objective and boldness would never attempt to become a teacher. Teaching requires a great deal of exploration as the historical Columbus did. Such exploration necessarily involves risk. One who dares take risk would finally end up with success and success leads to pride and fulfillment.
Teaching as opposed to preaching is a practical bit. Saying is not enough, but demonstration of what one says is more important and believing to the audience (learners). Teaching leads the learner to realize and understand the realities of the world. It directly exposes the learners to the real life situation and informs them to be vigilant about the life.
In conclusion, teaching is about providing special lenses to the needy to explore ways to see rights and wrongs. Teaching is to relish watching new flowers bloom in the spring of life. Teaching is freeing the captives from the cage by giving someone the ability to emancipate to higher cosmos.
Do you thing English is easy?
You think
English is easy???
Read to the end . . . a new twist
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce .
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck? does funny things when the?does are present.
A seamstress and a?sewer fell down into a?sewer line.
The?wind was too strong to?wind the sail.
Upon seeing the?tear in the painting I shed a?tear.
I had to subject the?subject to a series of tests.
How can I?intimate?this to my most?intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take
English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand
can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from
Guinea nor is it a pig.
Why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? ?One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'
It's easy to understand?UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP???At a meeting, why does a topic comeUP???Why do we speak UP and why are the officers?UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to writeUP a report?
We callUP our friends. And we use it to brightenUP a room, polishUP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lockUP the house and some guys fixUP the old car.
At
other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP?trouble, line UP
for tickets, workUP an appetite, and think UP
excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is
special.
And thisUP is confusing: ?A drain must be openedUP because it is stopped UP . We openUP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed?UP about UP!To be knowledgeable about the proper uses ofUP , look the word?UP in the dictionary. ?In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UPalmost 1/4th of the page and can add?UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try buildingUP a list of the many ways UP is used. ?It wil l take?UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may windUP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.?? When the sun comes out we say it is clearingUP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP .
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP
Read to the end . . . a new twist
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce .
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck? does funny things when the?does are present.
A seamstress and a?sewer fell down into a?sewer line.
The?wind was too strong to?wind the sail.
Upon seeing the?tear in the painting I shed a?tear.
I had to subject the?subject to a series of tests.
How can I?intimate?this to my most?intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
Why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? ?One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one
amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all! ?That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all! ?That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'
It's easy to understand?UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP???At a meeting, why does a topic comeUP???Why do we speak UP and why are the officers?UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to writeUP a report?
We callUP our friends. And we use it to brightenUP a room, polishUP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lockUP the house and some guys fixUP the old car.
And thisUP is confusing: ?A drain must be openedUP because it is stopped UP . We openUP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed?UP about UP!To be knowledgeable about the proper uses ofUP , look the word?UP in the dictionary. ?In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UPalmost 1/4th of the page and can add?UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try buildingUP a list of the many ways UP is used. ?It wil l take?UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may windUP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.?? When the sun comes out we say it is clearingUP.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP .
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Please share your view
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT CASE IN COURT
In Mongar, a boy regularly bullies and beats up smaller students, steals their flowers, disobeys teachers. In frustration the Principal beats him up and the case ends up in court.
Assignment: Read the full article in Kuensel and deconstruct cause and effect. What would be the responsibilities of the student, parent, teacher, principal and MOE in this picture? Is the student's behavior a result of bad parenting or school neglect? Is the Principal's action just a hangover from the brutal days of yore or a side effect of modern frustrations from today's youth and finicky regulations? Now that the case is in court, is it acceptable for the authorities to simply dump the principal at the mercy of 'the rule of law' or should changes be made in our system, burden shared with education system and parents etc?
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