Tag: Teacher
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Teacher’s role has changed, says Central University V-C
A special lecture on “Becoming an efficient teacher” was organised by the Department of Education, Central University of Orissa, Koraput at its main campus Sunabeda today. Vice-chancellor Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty, Dr Ramendra Kumar Parhi, head of the Department of Education of the university, and Prof. Bana Bihari Mishra, professor of education, Department of Education of...
January 20, 2018 -
School teacher dies, 12 students injured in accident in Phagwara
A government school teacher died while 12 students were injured, three of them seriously, when their bus rammed into a stationary truck at Goraya, ten km from here, on National Highway 1 this morning, police said. Goraya SHO Parminder Singh identified the deceased as Gurcharan Singh, an Art and Craft teacher of Government Senior Secondary...
January 16, 2018 -
Sordid school tales: Girls sexually abused in Kolkata, Jharkhand by teachers
Shocking people across India, two minor girls were sexually abused in two schools in Kolkata and Jharkhand’s Koderma, allegedly by a principal and two teachers, with all three being arrested on Friday. A school principal was booked on the charge of raping a six-year-old girl student in Jharkhand’s Koderma district, police said. According to police,...
December 2, 2017 -
Indian-origin Yoga teacher lost £12,000 via Facebook account
An Indian-origin Yoga instructor lost nearly 12,000 pounds when fraudsters broke into his Facebook account and made transactions to an online gambling website. According to a Telegraph report, Jasbir Mann who runs a Yoga studio in Warwickshire recently discovered 110 fraudulent transactions were made to a poker gambling site using his Facebook account. “Mann kept...
November 25, 2017 -
Govt launches special course to train teachers
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry on Tuesday launched a diploma course in Elementary Education to train teachers across the country for teaching students up to Class 8. The Ministry intends to train all such teachers with minimum qualifications by 2019, as per the amended Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Act,...
October 3, 2017 -
On Teachers’ Day…
Teachers’ Day (5 September) has seldom been so reassuring both for the teacher and the taught as it has been this year in West Bengal. A refreshing change after the tragedy a couple of years ago when a student died in the washroom of a girls’ school in Kolkata’s Dum Dum area, to which she...
September 11, 2017 -
An ideal for life
The sepia-tinted image of me touching his divine feet, seeking his benediction, is still engraved in the altar of my heart where my prayers devote themselves in silent worship. The noise of daily trivia has receded there in shame and apprehension, only the cooing birds and flowers strewn all over in hearty dedication remain. Still...
August 31, 2017 -
Five Haryana teachers get punishment posting for furnishing wrong info online
Wary of transfer to an undesired destination, five Haryana teachers have landed in trouble for giving "wrong information" for taking undue benefit under the "online" Teacher Transfer Policy. Besides getting punishment posting in Nuh, the most backward district in Haryana, all five are also facing disciplinary action. The additional chief secretary, school education department, PK...
August 9, 2017 -
Holistic mode of education
'Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” This quote from Albert Einstein, a school dropout and one of the greatest scientists of all time, succinctly sums up what the traditional approach to education lacks. Great leaders and successful people have often pointed out two major sources of learning...
August 7, 2017 -
Teacher asks students to draft suicide note for homework at UK school!
An English teacher in the UK asked over 60 teenage students to draft a suicide note for homework as part of a module on Shakespeare s tragedy Macbeth, sparking outrage and prompting the school to apologise. Pupils at Thomas Tallis school, Kidbrooke, London, were asked to pen a final note to their loved ones after...
June 25, 2017 -
More than just a profession
Teaching is considered the most noble of all professions and for good reasons. A teacher helps in shaping future generation, guiding on the right path and helping them acquire the skills necessary to lead a productive life and add to the society that we live in. They contribute immensely in the creation of a society...
June 22, 2017 -
Parrikar dons role of a teacher during visit to DIET
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday donned the role of a volunteer teacher at state run District Institute of Education and Training (DIET). The official twitter handle of Chief Minister's Office tweeted a photograph showing Parrikar addressing group of students in a class. "Manohar Parrikar taking class of D Ed students as a volunteer teacher...
June 14, 2017 -
Tales from a beaten track
The educational system in the country has undergone many changes since the time we were enrolled as students over sixty five years back. Although the old format has more or less been restored after a few experiments, many new fields have been added and new methods of teaching through use of electronic equipment has been...
June 3, 2017 -
HP govt to award teachers for good academic performance
In order to motivate teachers to give good results particularly in subjects like Maths, Science and English, Himachal Pradesh government would soon reward teachers with good academic performance in the last five years. The teachers would be rewarded with one year extension in service and monetary rewards under ‘Mukhya Mantri Shikshak Samman Yojana’. The main...
April 28, 2017