This document provides an overview of an educational magazine. It includes the editor's comments on assessing performance and gathering feedback. It also contains articles on classroom management tips, qualities of 21st century school leadership, and upcoming teacher training conferences. A humor section shares examples of unintentionally funny things said by teachers mixing languages. The magazine aims to inspire teachers and drive educational change through excellence in teaching.

1. Nov 2010
Volume 4, Issue 11 Inspiring Teachers
Driving educational change through excellence in teaching
Editor’s Comments
assess our performance and this time we have given
This month we have a new
plan for growth. There are announcements of a
author – Bhagirathi Behera.
some ideas that need to be number of conferences
He is a very motivated teacher
Pic above: Six-day validated from all of you. related to teaching and
workshop at Learnium who has entered this career by
School, Hyderabad They are in the covering learning.
choice and who wants to be
mail. Our regular humour section
heading a school in another
Articles this month: Please visit our website and some pictures from the
few years. He has put together
Classroom Management regularly and answer the Inspiring Teacher Awards
Tips – Editor a list of qualities for the school
poll question. We find event are other offerings.
……………..….2 leadership of 21st century.
surprising answers!
School Leadership for the We are almost coming to the
21st century – Behera Coming back to this issue,
end of 2o10 and it is time to
………………..3
Upcoming Conference –
Sunanda Verma
……………….4 October and November at Teacher’s Academy
Humour - KV Jayakumar 1. Sessions for Effective Teaching
……………….5 What they say after adopting
Skills for CfBT’s programs at
Aditya Engg College and
techniques from the training
Swarnandhra Engg College
Mr Salim, Principal, Adam’s High School
2. Effective Teaching Skills – six
says all his teachers started using graphic
day workshop at Learnium
organizers (mind maps) after training by
School, Banjara Hills,
Teacher’s Academy and their students are also
Hyderabad Oct 4th to 9th
making them now.
3. 4th batch of Teacher Training Vasu Krishna, N Srinivasulu and others in
Program at Enhance Edu, IIIT- Nalla Malla Reddy Engg College have started
H from Nov 1st to Dec 5th. sharing learning objectives with students and find
4. Next technique training at that it is a very effective way to generate clarity
Adam’s High School, Hyderabad and focus in the students thereby improving
interest and understanding.

2. Inspiring Teachers Page 2 of 5
Classroom Management Tips Uma Garimella
How to handle latecomers the same rules (believe it then don’t keep up the
Latecomers disrupt the or not!).Since they are the conversation - It takes one
learning of the rest of the ones who made the rules fool to backtalk. It takes two
class, give negative this works much better fools to make a conversation
attention to the latecomer, than teacher posting rules out of it. If you don’t keep
disrupt the teacher's train of without input from them. talking, the back talk will
thought, often become You may ask them to get not continue – for obvious
disruptive talkers after they into small groups, reasons. Just give your
sit down, and then ask brainstorm and come up instructions and ask the
questions about what you with a list, which can be back talking student to
just explained…so here is a posted on the blackboard. follow them.
way to handle themLeave Review it, rephrase if Noisy or disruptive
five or ten empty chairs by necessary, vote on behaviour: Usually
the front or back door for contradicting rules and teachers ask questions to
latecomers. Students who you should have some students who haven’t been
are late are not to walk in basic standards set for the paying attention. This
front of the room or to go to class. doesn’t work for two
Surprise!
their regular seats. They Handle backtalking reasons:
One of our poll
questions on who is must take one of the "late students – either in your 1. The student can’t
your best teacher –
seats" by the door. This will room or in the class: Here answer the question and
more than 70% voted
for a teacher ‘who prevent latecomers from we are not only talking of he/she feels humiliated
encourages you to go
disturbing the class already arrogant students but also 2. Since anyway the
beyond the syllabus’.
‘explains well’ came in progress. Do not talk to those who keep explaining student has been
third, after ‘makes you
latecomers. Don't accept an why your comment about caught, there is no
work so that you learn’
Think about it! explanation during class. them is wrong – for further motivation to
Ignore them as they come. example you tell a student pay attention.
to concentrate on her Instead, it may be a good
Establish classroom rules work and not talk, she idea to ask questions to
Use the first class in your answers that she’s not students who are sitting
academic session to involve talking or that her close to this group, but who
students to form simple neighbor is disturbing her are paying attention. Since
rules of behavior and and then you respond and the focus of the class has
academic issues that will be it goes on. There are two come near them, the
followed. This activity works reactions – in the first few disruptive group is likely to
because students also want seconds stay calm. And come back to the class flow.

3. Page 3 of 5 Inspiring Teachers
School Leadership for the 21st Century Bhagirathi Behera
An educational leader is essential for a leader or services in schools of
one who willingly makes all manager as technical other towns and districts,
efforts for achieving skills, human skills and upgrading evaluation,
institutional goals by conceptual skills. studying problems and
influencing and making setting new schemes with
Educational leader are to
other strive for the same. It successful
improve the learning
involves the achievements implementation,
situations by working with
of organizational goals and managing reward systems Caption describing
teachers, to help teachers picture or graphic.
working with people. But in for teachers, providing a
grow as professional, to
21st century educational vision for the staff and
develop materials for
organization are socio- faculty. This means
instructions and learning,
technical systems, unique helping the teachers and
to improve curriculum and Above: Break time on Teacher’s
organizations whose basic other persons concerned
to arrange for in-service Day
components are the to see teaching as a
education for teachers and
individuals and technology. larger picture with a
other persons. Other tasks
In order to be successful number of interrelated
are looking at instructional
three types of skills are activities.
Strong leaders are key to turning around poorly performing schools, by
implementing reforms, and motivating teachers and students.
The nature of educational the least, many persons to processes of teaching Above:
leadership in 21st century is lead the education field in and learning including N Chandrasekhar Reddy from
totally different from place of one person. knowledge of new NMREC, Hyderabad, touching
his guru K Srinivasa Rao’s feet
traditional supervision teaching methods,
The job of a school leader is before the award was
leadership. Pragmatic study student construction of
multidimensional and the presented. Mr Rao, who now
and analysis instead of knowledge, and skills in works in Viveka Vardhini
skills they must have are for
inspection; total teacher- problem solving. In College, was the man to whom
(1) instructional leadership;
learning situation in place of addition, they must Chandrasekhar’s father handed
(2) management; (3) over the responsibility of
teacher focused learning; devote a large portion of
communication, grooming him. From a child who
many diverse functions their time and energy to was below average in school,
collaboration, and
instead of visits and meeting; improving teaching and Chandraskehar got counted as
community building; and
organized and planned learning. They should one of the brighter students
(4) vision development, risk
after he came under Mr Rao.
objectives in place of poorly be able to provide
taking, and change
understood objectives; informed feedback,
management.
cooperative manager in place guidance and support to
of imposing and Thus, principals must have professional
a deep understanding of the
authoritarian; and last but not development activities.

4. Inspiring Teachers Page 4 of 5
School leadership……(cont’d)
Good leaders must have a addition, good leaders is the ability of the school
vision for their school, a must be good at managing leader to see what strategy
plan for reaching it, and people (teachers and other suits his/her school and
an ability to communicate staff, and stakeholders), keep reviewing its
that vision effectively. But time, and facilities. effectiveness. If something
on the way, they must Rather than telling people is not useful, it is necessary
also know about finance what to do, effective to change it, rather than
Siddhartha Ghosh of and be able to drive leaders share their vision take it as a failure or taking
GNITS, Hyderabad, successfully through and let people set goals it as a prestige issue.
speaking in Telugu difficult political aligned to that goal. And Mr Bhagirathi
during a JAM session Science Teacher
situations filled with they motivate them to
on 2nd Oct. His mother Shantiniketan Vidyalaya
tongue is Bengali! competing interests and achieve those goals.
Shamirpet
demands for resources. In Most important in all this
Upcoming Conferences Sunanda Verma, EnhanceEdu, IIIT-H
Paper
Submissi Dates of
Conference Name Venue Topics
on Conference
Deadline
Oct 25, Mumbai,
IC4E 2011 http://www.iacsit.org/ic4e Jan 2011 e-Learning, e-Education
2010 India
Oct 25, Wuhan, Nov 27 - 28 Education Training and
ETT 2010 http://www.ieee-ett.cn/ett2010/
2010 China 2010 Technology
Noordwijkerh Learning/Teaching
Oct 25, May 6 - 9,
CSEDU 2011 http://www.csedu.org/ out, The Methodologies And
2010 2011
Netherlands Assessment
Oct 30, Las Vegas, April 11 - 13, Software Engineering
ITNG 2011 http://www.itng.info/
2010 USA 2011 Education Track
Learning Environments and
EDUCON 2011 Amman, April 4 - 6,
Oct 31, 2011 Ecosystems in Engineering
http://www.educon-conference.org/IEEE Jordan 2011
Education
Nov 10, Guiyang, Jan 26 - 28,
ICIET 2011 http://www.iciet.org/ Education Technology
2010 China 2011
CSEET 2011 Nov 29, May 22 - 24, Software engineering
Hawaii, USA
http://conferences.computer.org/cseet/2011/CSEET_2011/ 2010 2011 Education
Adv Learning Technologies
ICALT 2011 Jul 6 - July 8,
Jan 17, 2011 Athens ,USA and Technology-enhanced
http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2011/ 2011
Learning
February Chennai July 14 - July
T4E 2011http://tfore.iitm.ac.in/ Education Technology
27, 2011 ,India 16, 2011
March 25, Changchun, July 15 - 16, Innovative Pedagogies,
ICETC 2011 http://www.icetc.org/
2011 China 2011 Learning Models

5. Page 5 of 5 Inspiring Teachers
Teacher’s Academy Thinking in Indian and speaking in English e-mail fwd KV Jayakumar
#Inside the Class:
Hyderabad * Open the doors of the window. Let the Air Force come in.
* Cut an apple into two halves - take the bigger half.
* Shhh...Quiet, boys...the principal just passed away in the corridor.
PHONE:
97011 41118 * You, meet me behind the class. (Meaning AFTER the class)
* Both of you three gets out of the class.
* Close the doors of the windows please... I have winter in my nose today.
E-MAIL: * shhh... quite, the principal is rotating in the school.
info@inspiring-teachers.com * (Facing the Board), Dont talk in front of my back.
# About his family:
* I have two daughters. Both of them are girls....(?)
# At the ground:
* All of you, stand in a straight circle.
* There is no wind in the ball.
# Giving a punishment:
* You, rotate the ground four times...
* You, go and under-stand the tree...
* You three of you, stand together separately.
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