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2. We follow the ten principles of UNITED NATIONS
Group Discussion
Topic: Effective Teachers
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Dr. Anis Ahmad: Effective teacher:
An effective teacher is more than an
educator; He/She is a mentor, guide,
and source of inspiration. Has a
profound impact on his/her
students, instilling not only
knowledge but also values, skills,
and a love for learning. His/Her
dedication, adaptability,
communication skills, empathy, and
high expectations make him/her
indispensable in the development
of the next generation. Effective
teachers are instrumental in

3. shaping the future and changing
lives, one student at a time.
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Azeez: My: Experience:
I once asked a very effective
teacher how he got his students so
engaged. He said it was easy. “All I
do is start a fight.” He meant making
some provocative remarks that
stirred arguments among students.
Although learning is the central task
of education, many educators
would be hard-pressed to explain
how learning occurs. Worse are the
students who say, in effect, “I dare
you to teach me.” We have reluctant
learners who sit in classrooms
waiting for the curtain to rise.

4. Treat people as if they were what
they ought to be, and you help
them become what they are
capable of being.
Classroom management would be
difficult when we teach the learners
to change and check what they are
made for; their learning personality;
what they ought to be. Just help
them with what they are capable of
being from their existing
capabilities.
People today do not even know
what children are actually like. They
only know what children are like in
schools. Don't educate them, just
elevate them.

5. Educate children, they elevate
themselves.
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Dr. Balasubramanian: Children's
demands are highly emotional,
whether they are young or older.
Many things cannot be expressed
adequately in words or text
messages. We need to invest
valuable time in conversation and
communication, as well as practice
good listening.
Over the past 20 years, we are
pleased to note an improvement in
education for both genders, with a
majority of students graduating.
However, we lack patience and
often expect children to progress
more quickly than their mental

6. development allows. We should
reduce the emphasis on classroom
teaching from textbooks, as the
content is readily accessible and
understandable with minimal effort.
Parents and teachers should
primarily serve as facilitators,
potentially tailoring their roles for
different age groups.
In the past, we used to accept the
differences in various education
streams and make compromises
when necessary. Now, the saddest
part is the influence of media,
including social media, newspapers,
and even unusual places used for
marketing purposes. In the streets,
we see various forms of

7. transportation, including walking,
cycling, motor vehicles, cars, and
buses. They all coexist, but they
cannot reach the same destinations
at the same time, leading to the
challenge of comparison, which has
become a pervasive issue. Many
programs designed for residential
schools cannot be implemented in
day schools due to time constraints.
For instance, activities like skits
during prayers work well in
residential schools, where students
have more free time, easier access
to teachers, and ample time for
rehearsal and practice.
Implementing such activities in day

8. schools often disrupts the normal
routine.
Parents, teachers, and school
management should avoid
comparing their schools to others,
as this can lead to stress. Many
problems can be resolved if we
focus on walking in the right shoes
and wearing appropriate uniforms,
rather than trying to imitate schools
from different regions with distinct
attire.
When it comes to higher education,
medical and competitive exams like
JEE (similar to IAS/IPS) are
aspirations and possibilities for the
top 10% or 15% of students.
However, not all students should be

9. expected to study the same
syllabus. Some may prefer pursuing
normal science degree programs.
The government's decision to shift
focus solely to MBBS programs,
which lead to jobs in the medical
field, while considering all other
programs as unwanted or useless, is
lamentable. The worst aspect of
this situation is the constant
comparison, which is akin to a virus.
We should cease such comparisons,
as fish cannot fly and birds cannot
swim. Parents should help their
children find the right domain, or
they will bear the costs. Human
beings are not machines for
producing results. Learning, just like

10. cultivation, requires proper
preparation and time, and one
should never expect it to happen in
a day.
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Azeez: There are no misfit children
in our society. There are misfit
courses of study, misfit textbooks,
and misfit teachers. But in the very
nature of the case, there can be no
misfit children…One might as well
say that a man does not fit his
clothes as to say that a child does
not fit the school…It is one of the
tragedies of human institutions that
they tend to become formal and
mechanical, that they tend to
gather about them people who have
a vested interest in their perpetuity.

11. Children are different from one
another and have a recall of their
lives that illustrates the significance
of their activities, mostly unrelated
to school.
Children out of school are viewed
differently from the way they
perform in school. Their
imaginations, natural curiosity, and
energy soar so differently from the
humdrum life at a school desk.
Teachers don’t know children
because they only experience them
in school.
When this expression out of our
school campus, when it is expressed

12. in school, we take it as a mark of
indiscipline.
Naturally it is not, children
sometimes fail to discriminate
between social life and school life.
What about we, the teachers, do the
same error.
Hence give the children, a space to
elevate themselves. This is what I
said, educate children; they elevate
themselves.
Young children know much more
than words. The reason why do we
follow teaching through activities,
They grasp the differences among
such concepts as mother, sister,
grandmother, cousin, girl, and

13. woman. They know the difference
between a chair, a sofa, and a stool,
though they were never taught
those differences.
Small children are like explorers in
their drive to understand the world
around them and like sponges in
soaking up understanding. If you ask
a child what makes the sun come
up, the child will answer, proposing
a hypothesis, if you will.
The child, a budding psychologist,
has learned, for example, whether
Mom or Dad would be better to
approach for permission.
In that context, the same child is a
lawyer, arguing the rightness of the

14. request.
The child is a mathematician who
loves counting and numbers and
who knows what one-half an apple
is. (You can divide the apple but
your brother gets to choose his part
first.)
The child is an artist who tackles
drawing or dancing without
reservation.
Now......How do schools squelch
these enthusiastic drives and
motivations?
The need of a child from us is not
help; our support to grow their
personality and not accurate
performances.

15. Some children get exactly support
and some get help. Supported
children grows in discipline and
helped children grows slow in their
discipline; it is not indiscipline;
slowly catching up DISCIPLINE.
We teachers need to know this
discrimination please.
We have radically altered our
evolved species’ behavior by
artificially segregating children in
same-age peer groups instead of
mixed-age communities, by
compelling them to be indoors and
sedentary for most of the day, by
asking them to learn from artificial
text-based materials instead of
contextualized real experiences,

16. and by dictating arbitrary
timetables for learning rather than
following the unfolding of a child’s
developmental readiness.
Common sense should tell us that
all this will have complex and
unpredictable results. And it does.
The result is Indiscipline, according
to our dictionary.
Is it true that keeping our belief
wrong and blaming little angels?
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Mrs. Sangeeta Thygarajan: I
couldn't agree more.
We are somehow catering to the
corporate firms' need for slaves
who work from dawn to dusk
without questioning by training

17. students from a very young age.
We confine them in schools and
desks for hours on end, thus
robbing them of enjoying the most
beautiful hours of the day.
They are so used to these confined
hours that they become model
employees.
We should note that the syllabus is
set that way, too.
No creative individuality is
encouraged
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Dr. Sekar Srinivasan: Your
observations are profound. Yet i
feel whatever the syllabus greatly
depends on the attitude of the
teachers and their passion to

18. transform with effective utilization
of available resources to pull up.
Subject proficiency should not be
the only criteria but the art of
teaching plays a vital role. For this
teaching degrees and diploma
should not be there through
correspondence courses or open
universities where passing the
examination is mainly through
assignments. Teachers training is
more worthwhile than medical
professional training. If standard
teachers training institutions are
monitored and felicitated then
more than 60 percentage of the
problems could be resolved.

19. ▪️
Azeez: While some children seem
able to function in the school’s
artificial environment, most cannot.
Around the world every day,
millions and millions of normally
bright, healthy children are labeled
as failures in ways that damage
them for life.
My mentioning of different ways for
schooling doesn’t mean everything
is wrong with current instruction or
that newer ways will be entirely
better.
New ways just have to be better, not
perfect. Your critics, take notice!
There is general agreement among
cognitive scientists, and educators

20. that all children:
¹Are born with curiosity and the
ability to learn.
²Are not born with the same
capacities for learning the same
things.
³Come to school with different
levels of cognitive, emotional,
physical, and social development
due to a combination of nature and
nurture.
⁴Come to school with different
needs, interests, and abilities.
⁵Are active learners with unique
needs.
⁶Should bear the responsibility for
learning.
⁷Learn best when intrinsically

21. motivated.
⁸Are motivated when respected,
encouraged, and exposed to
opportunities that capture their
interest and build on their previous
experience, and are recognized for
their accomplishment.
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