THE DIFFERENCE :Teachers of 20th and 21st century and Present day Teachers

 

     1.  Earlier days Teachers cycle  to school or walk to school

      Teachers of today drive big cars to School

2.  Teachers in the past live simple life and equipped with Knowledge, emotion and concern

Present day teachers live luxuriously, very modern and too busy to gain knowledge or to share knowledge with learners.

3.  3.Teachers in the past produced quality individuals who are caring and loving and healthy

Present day Teachers produce………………………….???????

   4 .Teachers in the past attended only basic Teaching  Certificate

but taught all the living skills of survival to the learners and environment was part of the learning.

   Present day Teachers possess  many qualification and the highest education, but the learners are not taught the important things in life. Environment is not included in the learning at all.

5.Teachers in the past taught the learners, basic living skills and environmental studies related to the environment,such as gardening, growing, plants, water those plants and fertile the plants.
   
Present day teachers knows nothing about all those skills because thwy have not been exposed to those simple skills.


6. In year  60ies , 70ies and 80ies there were numerous top athletes, sportsmen and women , who made the nation present day athletes  can't be compared with those of past year athletes.


7. Quality teachers produce quality learners. when teachers do not know how to teach and make the learners understand. There wouldn't be standard in the learners learning.

Effective communication in the Class room

    To create a conducive and effective learning environment  teachers need to play  important roles to make the classroom livelier, when teachers fail to know the learners need, its very difficult for the teacher to make the students learn effectively.

According to Amidon and Hough (1967) feelings are seldom acknowledged verbally in the classroom.

      The teachers should not ignore the significant emotional content of what pupils are saying. The teachers should promote interest in learning. Learners who are interested usually sit with heads slightly forward and turned  towards the teacher.

  Teachers need to tell the learners why it is important for the learners to read. why they should always read, and what type of reading materials are suitable for them to read. teacher need to give those learners the  text and need to teach them or ask the learners to read the text prepared by the teacher. Teacher need to prepare or get a simple poem , simple dialogues, simple short passages to make the learners read.

Why rural learners find English as a difficult subject

1. Creative learning is not applied in class rooms.
2. Language teachers lack emotional Inteligence.
3. Class room teaching is more to teacher centred
4. Learners find classroom teaching  boring.
5. Teacher is unable to attract learners to learn English.
6. Teacher not used to various ways and methods of teaching and learning the young learners.
7. Learners are not attracted to the teacher and her/his way of teaching them.
8. Teacher lacks confidence and not creative.

Solutions:

1.Virtual learning need to be taught to learners if the school has computer labs.

2. Slide shows and sounds attract learners.

3. CALL is one of the very effective way of online learning which stimulates the learners by making them to find them selves’ information and solve their problems.

4. Using Songs in class rooms or labs is something the young minds enjoy and love that particular subject.

5. Teacher create situations for learners to be involved in discussions.

6. Quiz is another way of exchanging ideas.

7.  Daily Reading is a must for everyone including teachers. Those learners who posses the reading habbit has the high self esteem and more confident. They possess rich vocabulary and word power.
8. Give learners time  for learning, and make them read in the classroom everyday.
9. Reading helps learners to enunciate and to pronounce better.
10. learners become more competent  in the language if they practice extensive learning