Learning

I am in to profession of educational research. Namita (my spouse) respects my learning’s but finds no big deal and stops me saying “don’t give lectures”. So I have concluded that she did not receive any thing in concrete about educational practice from me. She neither has any educational training.

A lady came to her few days back and asked Namita to teach her daughter. Her daughter is now around 15 year old & was expelled from school as she did not pick up reading and writing skills. The lady does small house hold labor and earns her living. She insisted that no buddy wants to teach her daughter because they are poor. Namita has accepted this challenge and said that she will work with her daughter.

I find it exciting to see her methods of teaching language which is similar to the latest researches which I have gone through. As the day one she narrated an interesting poem 4-5 times from a book to Kavita (the student). She memorized it soon and she could repeat it but she did not able to read the written text. Kavita was simply keeping her finger on the written text as she asked to do so and rhyming the poem. The word Badal (cloud) comes 3-4 times in the poem. Namita shared it to me that Kavita has now learnt to read Badal.

I was doing some work and heard that Namita is also reading with same label of difficulty as recent learner will read. Namita was actually showing Kavita to associate different sound with different letter.

She might not articulate what exactly she was doing and this she has thought her own which coincidently match with latest research trends.

So in conclusion I will say change cannot come from inside and all effort can trigger only. So working towards change should not include prepared things.

For example if we want that the teachers should develop teaching learning atmosphere in the school then the prepared pedagogy training not going to help I would suggest that we should create some space for a teacher to innovate by his/her own.

it seems that I rush through but I do not want to conclude it in my own terms please feel free to interpret your own way.

Pramod Maithil