Sunday, May 17, 2009
NOTE MAKING-for LLL and LTA
Note making or taking notes has been hailed as the best form of learning. It is the best self-learning technique and the unique memory technique. Good notes will help the learners to improve their Life Long Learning (LLL) and Life -Time Achievement (LTA).
Saturday, April 4, 2009
100% Learning
Using learning in your life
Today Tearful learning takes place - Your learning is Not used in life- Blind memory -based learning
When you start thinking -20% learning takes place
When you collect new ideas- 40% learning takes place
When you start creating your own new ideas -60% learning takes place
When you start innovating new working models using your own new ideas -80% learning takes place
When you become an entrpreneur -100% learning takes place. Now joyful learning takes place and you have started using your learning in your life.
Today Tearful learning takes place - Your learning is Not used in life- Blind memory -based learning
When you start thinking -20% learning takes place
When you collect new ideas- 40% learning takes place
When you start creating your own new ideas -60% learning takes place
When you start innovating new working models using your own new ideas -80% learning takes place
When you become an entrpreneur -100% learning takes place. Now joyful learning takes place and you have started using your learning in your life.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
English spelling best taught
English spelling is a great misery to the native speakers themselves and for foreigners it remains a greater problem. The following tips will help the foreign leraners to learn it easily.
The ELT teachers may use the tips to improve their teaching of English spelling to their students.
1. Teach the sound symbols
2. Teach the spelling pattern
3.Teach the use of a good dictionary
4. Teach the pre fixes and suffixes
5. Tech the syllable division
6.Teach the spelling Games
7. Teach the use of word slips
The ELT teachers may use the tips to improve their teaching of English spelling to their students.
1. Teach the sound symbols
2. Teach the spelling pattern
3.Teach the use of a good dictionary
4. Teach the pre fixes and suffixes
5. Tech the syllable division
6.Teach the spelling Games
7. Teach the use of word slips
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Microteaching
Microteaching is a new training technique for teacher training students. It is useful for all teachers. It is a skill and can be developed by any teacher. The following skills are useful for all teachers.
1. The skill of using the black board
2. The skill of Motivation
3. The skill of explaining
4. The skill of reinfocement.
5. The skill of Stimulus variation.
6. The skill of using A.V. Instruments
7. The skill of closing the lesson
1. The skill of using the black board
2. The skill of Motivation
3. The skill of explaining
4. The skill of reinfocement.
5. The skill of Stimulus variation.
6. The skill of using A.V. Instruments
7. The skill of closing the lesson
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
TEACHING IN ENGLISH
LEARN THE LANGUAGE; LARN THE SUBJECT
Guest Lecture by Dr. S. Malaikkani
To the St. Anthony School Teachers
On 20.12 2008
1.Imporance of English – need – economic importance – World’s first Language – Modern Language – A practical life tool - Almost an Indian Language – Future of it – Soft skills vs Hard skills – Spoken English vs Technical English.
2. Teaching English and Teaching in English – the first – method of teaching the language - the second - a method of teaching the subject – the first one needs common
vocabulary – the second needs subject vocabulary
3. Mastery of the language – both common and technical – follow study skills
LSRW - Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics - a good collection of quality books – Reference skills – Using the Library – Using the Net – learn the nature of English - A tough Language – Learn to simplify it
4. Methods of teaching – teaching for scientific thinking – Dvelop your own style of teaching – Formula for teaching MARKS – Learn the use of Technical and Scientific English
5. Old Methods of teaching – Lecture Method – Translation Method – Socretic Method – Q&A – Story method ect.
6. Modern Methods - Key Word Method – Embedding Learning Techniques in teaching – Memory- techniques based teaching – Indivisualized – Instruction – An approach to make all the students learn in the class room itself – No poor Students or slow learners
Prepare your own materials – e-contents – use the already prepared standard materials – Group work
Motivate the students towards self-learning – manage your time in the class room
Make the students to think like great scientists – ask to put their thoughts in writing – Try to create innovative bent of mind and do experiments and invent new working models.
Use electronic Gadgets in the class room – Encourage Students to use them in their learning
10. Self- in-service methods – News Readers Model – Modern Advertisements
LEARN THE LANGUAGE; LARN THE SUBJECT
Guest Lecture by Dr. S. Malaikkani
To the St. Anthony School Teachers
On 20.12 2008
1.Imporance of English – need – economic importance – World’s first Language – Modern Language – A practical life tool - Almost an Indian Language – Future of it – Soft skills vs Hard skills – Spoken English vs Technical English.
2. Teaching English and Teaching in English – the first – method of teaching the language - the second - a method of teaching the subject – the first one needs common
vocabulary – the second needs subject vocabulary
3. Mastery of the language – both common and technical – follow study skills
LSRW - Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics - a good collection of quality books – Reference skills – Using the Library – Using the Net – learn the nature of English - A tough Language – Learn to simplify it
4. Methods of teaching – teaching for scientific thinking – Dvelop your own style of teaching – Formula for teaching MARKS – Learn the use of Technical and Scientific English
5. Old Methods of teaching – Lecture Method – Translation Method – Socretic Method – Q&A – Story method ect.
6. Modern Methods - Key Word Method – Embedding Learning Techniques in teaching – Memory- techniques based teaching – Indivisualized – Instruction – An approach to make all the students learn in the class room itself – No poor Students or slow learners
Prepare your own materials – e-contents – use the already prepared standard materials – Group work
Motivate the students towards self-learning – manage your time in the class room
Make the students to think like great scientists – ask to put their thoughts in writing – Try to create innovative bent of mind and do experiments and invent new working models.
Use electronic Gadgets in the class room – Encourage Students to use them in their learning
10. Self- in-service methods – News Readers Model – Modern Advertisements
ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
English words can be classified into two types; small words and big words. The small words are unstressed in speech and big words are stressed in speech.The big words are meaningful words but the small words are grammatical words. Pronoun, helping verbs, preposition, and conjuntion are small words. Nouns, adjectives, adverbs, main verbs and interjections are big words. In all the language communications, the small words are used more than 70 percent. (in Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing)
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Research in Education
PARADIGM SHIFT IN RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
Article by Dr. S. Malaikkani
A historical perspective of the field of research will reveal the growth of it slowly first and vigorously at present. In olden times research was restricted to disciplines like science, Maths, Philosophy, and language. Scientific research was alone considered as the original research. There were two different types of researches in science namely fundamental or basic research and applied research. Later Social Sciences like Philosophy, Social Science, Education, Psychology etc. also tried to emulate it.
Aristotle was the forerunner of the present day research and he collected data, created information out of it and produced a knowledge pool and tried to use it for the benefit of the mankind. He verified the collected data and brought out in book form and was the first scholar to author more than 150 books by his hard work.
After a long break, Francis Bacon taught the students how to
1. Observe nature
2. Collect data
3. Form Hypotheses
4. Analyze the data and interpret it
5. form a conclusion and prove the hypotheses
In hid book ‘Novum Organum’, Bacon had explained in detail how conduct research both in the field and in laboratory. He emphasized that Nature contains everything and people should develop the spirit of enquiry and try to find out the truth. Charles Darwin emulated the principles dictated by Bacon and observed Nature, collected materials, and produced evidence to prove his hypothesis based on the ‘ The Theory of Evolution’.
Education Research was of recent origin and heavily depends on the Disciplines like Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Biology. The Russian psychologist was the first to conduct an experiment with his dog’s salivation. He created the S - R bond theory in Education. Later, studies conducted on the following areas.
1. Curriculum
2. Methods of Teaching
3. Evaluation
Recently efforts were made to analyze the behavior of teachers in the class room. Flanders did a wonderful analysis of teacher’s behavior and demonstrated that teacher’s behavior plays a vital role in imparting education to children. This is the research which brought educational research into the class room.
Simultaneously different types of researches were introduced and it was very much useful to make educational research more empirial and scientific. Some of them are the following.
1. Survey research
2. Experimental research.
3. Case study
4. Ethnographic Study
The advancement of statistics helped researchers to analyze data precisely and come to clear solutions.
The latest trend has been the use of computers and internet to conduct research at all levels. They are useful to select a topic, to collect related literature, to conduct research and pool data, to analyze it and to interpret it. Today quality research cannot be undertaken without computer and internet.
The important paradigm shift in education research today is from the teachers to the learners.
Class room management, class room environment, Student’s behavior, their learning style, self-learning, and speed-learning are the major thrust areas of study throughout the world. Other areas of interest are the Communication Information Technology (CIT), learner- friendly text books and new pedagogical techniques.
In foreign countries, research in education has reached advanced levels and they conduct research in the use of e-books, online-learning, e-learning, web-learning, and virtual class room learning. The quality of our education depends on the quality of our research in education.
All the ills of our education system can be removed by the findings of the latest research.
Unfortunately Indian Teachers and Students possess knowledge about their books and not
about the latest research findings. Indian teachers conduct research merely for increments and promotion opportunities. They don’t have any idea of socio-economic benefit of their
theses. Most of the theses are not published and they sleep in the shelves of the libraries.
They are unaware of the saying “Publish and flourish”.
Article by Dr. S. Malaikkani
A historical perspective of the field of research will reveal the growth of it slowly first and vigorously at present. In olden times research was restricted to disciplines like science, Maths, Philosophy, and language. Scientific research was alone considered as the original research. There were two different types of researches in science namely fundamental or basic research and applied research. Later Social Sciences like Philosophy, Social Science, Education, Psychology etc. also tried to emulate it.
Aristotle was the forerunner of the present day research and he collected data, created information out of it and produced a knowledge pool and tried to use it for the benefit of the mankind. He verified the collected data and brought out in book form and was the first scholar to author more than 150 books by his hard work.
After a long break, Francis Bacon taught the students how to
1. Observe nature
2. Collect data
3. Form Hypotheses
4. Analyze the data and interpret it
5. form a conclusion and prove the hypotheses
In hid book ‘Novum Organum’, Bacon had explained in detail how conduct research both in the field and in laboratory. He emphasized that Nature contains everything and people should develop the spirit of enquiry and try to find out the truth. Charles Darwin emulated the principles dictated by Bacon and observed Nature, collected materials, and produced evidence to prove his hypothesis based on the ‘ The Theory of Evolution’.
Education Research was of recent origin and heavily depends on the Disciplines like Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Biology. The Russian psychologist was the first to conduct an experiment with his dog’s salivation. He created the S - R bond theory in Education. Later, studies conducted on the following areas.
1. Curriculum
2. Methods of Teaching
3. Evaluation
Recently efforts were made to analyze the behavior of teachers in the class room. Flanders did a wonderful analysis of teacher’s behavior and demonstrated that teacher’s behavior plays a vital role in imparting education to children. This is the research which brought educational research into the class room.
Simultaneously different types of researches were introduced and it was very much useful to make educational research more empirial and scientific. Some of them are the following.
1. Survey research
2. Experimental research.
3. Case study
4. Ethnographic Study
The advancement of statistics helped researchers to analyze data precisely and come to clear solutions.
The latest trend has been the use of computers and internet to conduct research at all levels. They are useful to select a topic, to collect related literature, to conduct research and pool data, to analyze it and to interpret it. Today quality research cannot be undertaken without computer and internet.
The important paradigm shift in education research today is from the teachers to the learners.
Class room management, class room environment, Student’s behavior, their learning style, self-learning, and speed-learning are the major thrust areas of study throughout the world. Other areas of interest are the Communication Information Technology (CIT), learner- friendly text books and new pedagogical techniques.
In foreign countries, research in education has reached advanced levels and they conduct research in the use of e-books, online-learning, e-learning, web-learning, and virtual class room learning. The quality of our education depends on the quality of our research in education.
All the ills of our education system can be removed by the findings of the latest research.
Unfortunately Indian Teachers and Students possess knowledge about their books and not
about the latest research findings. Indian teachers conduct research merely for increments and promotion opportunities. They don’t have any idea of socio-economic benefit of their
theses. Most of the theses are not published and they sleep in the shelves of the libraries.
They are unaware of the saying “Publish and flourish”.
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