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Teachers’ Day and Teachers

TD Education — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 01:11:44 +0000

TEACHERS’ DAY AND TEACHERS
On a teachers’ day, I wish every teacher in this great country to be bestowed with the strong urge to rediscover the pride and fortune of being a teacher. Salute the fraternity of teachers and thank them for their services.
Teachers’ Day symbolises Dr Radhakrishnan’s birthday and reminds us of inspirational quotes from Dr Abdul Kalam. They mark the Day with ritualistic ceremonies in schools. Children get alerts to plan Teachers’ Days with activities and presentations in the school. Digitally our social media becomes so-called ‘Viral’, and teachers get messages authored and created by the digital software tribes.
Teachers get messages like ‘Happy Teachers Day’ to mark the annual event. They relish the true feelings of tribute from some students who dwell deep in creating drawings and paintings to portray their honours to teachers. These are the happy moments!
Are teachers in India happy? I fear the realities will be glaring undercover in a nationwide survey. Teaching is no more a noble profession, unlike those days when teaching was a vocation. A vocation is when they discover the teacher in them under the guidance of an inspirational ‘Guru’ or self-efficacy.
Change is a phenomenon of nature; like so many changes, the concept of Guru and disciples now adorns a new trend of emerging corporate culture. Corporate culture has replaced institutionalised philosophy, ethnicity, and quality of education with technology and external resources. When corporate organisational culture dominates, teachers’ originality, creative engagements and insights in education recede, and structured action plans take over. Teachers over the years though not paid commensurate with the kind of service they render, a sense of insecurity of internal threats at work makes them stoically weak in spirit and low on self-esteem. Teachers have become simple operators of knowledge required to deliver a set pattern of curriculum design, assessment, structured annual plan, meet targets, and perform to merit the scorecard.
The hard reality is that despite challenges, teachers handle heterogeneous students from various community strata and work hard to meet the expectations of the management and parents. Salaries for teachers have always been a concern but what is more alarming is the health and family life of teachers who are under constant pressure to perform. Teachers have become a community of workers, stressfully reporting demanding jobs, facing embarrassing questioning, and listening to subject experts or audit teams’ pointers.
In the words of Henry Vivian Derizo, it is apt today ‘Where is the glory? Where is the reverence? The eagle pinion is chained down and growling in the lowly dust are thou! A teacher’s Day should be a day of tribute to the students and reflection among regulatory and educational bodies.
National Education Policy 2020 envisages a high stake for a stress-free, holistic changing face of education, giving high priorities to the professional growth of teachers. When will the teachers see a full-page advertisement by Governments announcing a welfare scheme for teachers and initiating regulatory actions on the dignity of teachers as nation builders and human beings?
Teachers remotely rendered yeoman during the pandemic times when learning continued online. And they are now working hard in person to regain the lost ground, recouping two years of learning loss. Aren’t the teachers also front-line warriors?
Let there be an awakening among all stakeholders to look at teachers as high potential leaders in learning. And re-orient in them the respect and status they deserve and train them culturally and pedagogically, enabling integration of principles of NEP 2020 and enhancing their potential to deliver 21st-century learning and teaching skills. Undoubtedly this would be the tribute that we should contemplate on teachers’ Day!
Dr.G. Thangadurai
Managing Trustee, TD Educational & Charitable Trust.

PAT FEST 2022, WORKSHOP

TD Education — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:01:39 +0000

WORKSHOP

Dear Educator,

Greetings from TDEACT!

I hope you are doing well

TD Educational and Charitable Trust objective is to mentor and support Principals/ Academic Directors, and teachers in these changing face of school education.

We would like to invite principals, Academic Directors and teachers engaged in leading learning to the post pandemic in person workshop on:

Implementing NEP 2020 in conjunction with Neuro science.

Date Saturday, 16^th July,2022

Venue: Mother’s Public School, Unit 1 Bhubaneshwar

NEP 2020 is a comprehensive educational policy acclaimed to bring imagination, action and joy of learning. However, implementing and incorporating the policy into school curriculum, lesson plan with innovating pedagogy remains a challenge for many.

Please refer the brochure attached to know about Educationists and learning scientist who have analysed and guided implementation in schools .

PLEASE CLICK THE RED BUTTON LABELLED REGISTER AND JOIN NOW AND THE FORM WILL POP UP

OR Click this link: https://forms.gle/Ws1tXyzMwNTkVQM46

Looking forward to your collaboration and wise words in our session.

Warm Regards

Vijaya

Director Engagements

& Trustee

TD Educational and Charitable Trust
Bangalore, India

+91 9731564264

www.tdeducation.in

DIGITAL CONTENT FOR GRADE 10 by Anay Academy

TD Education — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 09:26:42 +0000

Dear Educators,

The changes in the education system wrought by Covid- 19 pandemic have been hard on teachers, a majority of whom are struggling to cope with the new digital landscape.

The phased, reopening of school has only added to their woes with longer hours as they juggle conducting online and offline classes, managing domestic chores, designing and creating online resources/teaching aids.

Teachers need quality time for effective learning outcomes and in this context TD Educational and Charitable Trust through its exclusive unit ‘ANAY ACADEMY’ and collaboration with a U.S. based Indian technological platform ‘Fast Edge’ created digital content for Grade 10, for now, to enable teachers to focus on conceptual changes and learning outcome by using our product and need not spend long hours designing contents.

Contents are framed and designed by experienced CBSE teachers and put on a technological platform like ‘Netflix’ as online resources available all the time.

Our ‘Fast Edge’ team will explain and present more in detail over a presentation on ‘Zoom’.

You may write to us at: Tdeact2017@gmail.com to connect with us regarding this product.

We request your time and day to get connected and know more about the product.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Warm Regards,

Dr.G.Thangadurai

Managing Trustee

TD Educational and Charitable Trust

Bangalore

India

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HAPPY TEACHERS’ DAY

TD Education — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 03:59:28 +0000

My Dear Teachers,

You are the sculptors of civilization, for you, with your immense, yet mostly unrecognized, dedication and hard work, nurture minds and souls of generations.
Being a teacher does not come easy. It’s not a profession; it’s a ‘choice’ to create a better world. An affectionate heart, a vigil mind, and a strong adherence to the commitment to purpose is what sets us apart.

And as we offer homage to Dr. Radhakrishnan on this auspicious day to celebrate teachers, I shall not wish you a “Happy Teachers Day’. The ‘happy’ in ’Happy Teachers Day’ is not something that can be wished or offered. It ought to be discovered and created.

The indelible impression that a teacher leaves in the mind and heart of students, instilling life lessons, and feeling contended with the amazing capacity they have, is the ’happy’ in the Teachers Day.
The utter joy of completion of an assigned task, and that glint of gratitude in a student’s eyes is the ’happy’ in Teachers Day.
The realization, whether celebrated or not, you are the front line warriors in keeping alive the education system during pandemic times, and revolutionizing it each day thereafter, is the ’happy’ in Teachers Day.
This happiness is self created and comes from the sense of commitment.

Our life is defined by the choices we make and in a world full of convenient ways, ‘convenience’ not a choice, for it comes easy and to all. Commitment, integration and alignment to the shared ideals of the institution come by choice and the fulfillment in making these rightful choices is the ’happy’ in the Teachers Day. Being respected and not merely tolerated is the ’happy’ in Teachers Day. Earning that respect is happiness!

Dear teachers, the power of ‘you’ is boundless. The stage awaits you to write your story of ‘Happy Teachers’ Day’ in wet eyes and broad smiles.

And as we commemorate the outstanding services of teachers in awe and gratitude, our heartiest tribute goes to Dr APJ Abdul Kalam who has earned every ounce of our humble respect for his unparalleled contribution in emancipating the minds of students. Let us seek blessings from the divine to guide us tread the footsteps of the revered souls.

Dr . G Thangadurai