My Expressions

I am a positive person who has an enthusiastic outlook on life. I love my job and I get a great sense of achievement when I see my students develop and grow as individuals.

I love learning! I have learnt how to draw pictures and paint in my own time. I decided to start sharing the short videos about the same. Its a learning process and a very fulfilling experience!

What inspired you to become an educator?

While I was teaching, I had an opportunity to take a particular student aside to help him with a particularly difficult math concept that he was having trouble in understanding. When I was able to show him a different way to approach the problem, and he understood it, I knew that I had chosen the right field!

What do you love the most about being a teacher?

The thing I like most about teaching is my students. I love interacting with them, I love learning from them and also to help them understand the content of any course. I appreciate it when they see the connection between what they are learning and their lives. It feels like an achievement when my students tells me they hated to speak in public before having the course in public speaking but now they actually like it (or hate it far less). I love it when they let me know how they used supportive communication to decrease someone else’s defensiveness or how they understand how their behavior influences the others' behavior when they are working in a small group. I have just completed my 43rd year in teaching, these things still excite me. My students are the reason I have always loved teaching and still do!

The one change you would like to bring in the current education system.

I would like to eliminate all work books, textbooks, and worksheets from the education system. This would enforce teachers to be creative in choosing resources and to learn how to inspire independent learning. Plus, the homework will be reduced as well.

Your message to your 21st-Century-students.

The students should know about Critical thinking, problem solving, reasoning, analysis, interpretation, synthesizing information about everything they learn.

A special story, memory or message that you want to share.

A little girl was decorating a box with a gold wrapping paper to put it under the Christmas tree. Money was tight, so the girl‘s father punished her for wasting almost all roll of that expensive paper. However, the next morning the girl gave gift to her father.
"This is for you, Daddy” – she said.
He opened a box and found it empty, so he got angry again.
"Don‘t you know, that when you give someone a gift, it is supposed that there would be something inside it” – he said angrily.
The little girl looked at her father with tears in her eyes.
"Daddy, this box is not empty, I filled it with my kisses, all for you.“
The father was stunned. He felt so embarrassed that he could just put his arms around his little daughter and beg for her forgiveness. For many years of his life the man kept that golden box near his bed. Whenever he felt sad, he would open the box and thought of love that the little child had put into it.
Each of us hold the present of unconditional love from our children, family, friends and God. It is the most precious possession that anyone could ever own.

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