This document summarizes a presentation given by Dr. Prabhat K. Sahu at the National Institute of Science & Technology on enthusiastic and effective teaching. The presentation discusses how school heads should support teachers to innovate, the importance of empowering students as independent learners, and how teachers can influence students through enthusiasm rather than control. It also lists eight components of enthusiasm in teaching, including vocal delivery, eye contact, gestures, energy levels, and accepting different ideas. The overall message is that great teachers bring enthusiasm to their role by having "the God within" when they teach.

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THURSDAY SEMINAR PRESENTATION
Dr. Prabhat K. Sahu
Center for Multiscale Modelling & Department of Chemistry
19thJan2017

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If he could answer yes to all three, he could go home with a
clear conscience.
Brave Heads and Lazy Teachers!
This will significantly improve the quality of education

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Author’s observations:
The Head should be strong enough to stand up to the
external pressures coming at them for quality education
This is the way we do things here because this is what we
know our children need from us most.
Colleagues – teach the way we have agreed to do it.
Many teachers I meet feel scared and inhibited to try new
things because of what others might say, yet those in a school
with such a head enjoy a far greater freedom to innovate and
experiment.

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The author suggest that teachers should step out of the
limelight a little more to allow the learners to be independent
learners, empowered by a teacher to experiment and innovate.
Lao Tsu in the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese text describe:
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his
work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say:
we did it ourselves”

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So many teachers are self-confessed control freaks.
Do they enter the profession because they are control
freaks or do they become control freaks once they have
entered the profession?
Until someone does some serious research on such a
question, we will never know the answer. Yet the fact that
they indubitably are so remains.

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Control is like respect.
Remember, you can’t control students.
You can control yourself and influence your students.
What’s more, your influence is greater than your power.
Don’t be a control freak, be an influence freak.

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Being a ‘lazy teacher’ is all about giving the learners as much
control as possible over their own learning and letting go a whole
lot more yourself, from planning lessons to communicating tasks
to being the one main source of learning in the classroom.
Which is where technology and, yes, Google comes in.

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The word ‘enthusiasm’, comes from the Greek word
‘entheos’ meaning, literally, ‘the God within’.
We talk on motivation but, here again, we need to be
aware of de-motivation.
Students who come to the lesson ready and willing to
learn but become switched off by our behaviours and
attitudes.

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(Mehrabian and Ferris 1967 quoted in Lapakko 1997)
And the fact that great teachers use this to their advantage
The combined effect of simultaneous verbal, vocal and
facial attitude communications is a weighted sum of their
independent effects –with the coefficients of
0.07, 0.38 and 0.55 respectively.

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The Journal of Teacher Education list the following eight overall
component factors on enthusiasm training:
1. Vocal Delivery – e.g. changes in tone, pitch, speed, etc.
2. Eyes – ‘dancing, snapping, shining . . .’ etc.
3. Gestures – to include the ‘body, head, arms, hands and face’
4. Movements – e.g. ‘large body movements’
5. Facial Expression – e.g. expressing emotions through
changes in facial expressions
6. Word Selection – e.g. colour and variety of words used
7. Acceptance of Ideas and Feelings – e.g. praise, non-
threatening responses, open to ideas . . .
8. Overall Energy – ‘explosive, exuberant, high degree of
vitality, drive and spirit throughout the lesson’.

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THURSDAY SEMINAR PRESENTATION
“Wherever else your God may be,
when you are teaching, ensure you have one inside too”
THANK YOU