Monday, 25 July 2011

                                                   To Sir,With Love 

                        A' Negro' teacher ,Mark  THACKERY(SIDDNEY'S POITER), professionally an engineer ,comes to a school where most of the children are 'unpolished'. He takes all his gadgets  to make them cultured.He can't implement all this as most of the time the learners trouble him.He realises  'some thing' new to be adopted to tame them. Taming is pruning .He cunningly diversifies their energy to make them what they are today.At  last the pupil recognise him as their mentor with love and affection .He  has even torn out the much anticipated appointment as a engineer.sidney Poiter successfully gives life to E.R.Braitwait's screen play under the  direction of JAMES CLAVELL.

                Why does a negro come to a "white" school? The teachers are white , The learner's too.  That is Thackery's first appointment as a teacher .He looks for an engineering profession .He couldn't get it.why? The year was 1966. Racial discrimination was prevailing everywhere".where do you come from .?" the students ask this question many times.It is recurrent in this film .

                 Everything doesnot happen all of a sudden..It has a long history .Go back  to the era of expediation and exploration .The white Europeans(white)went to Africa for invading them.. the Africans became scapegoats.It is  quite interesting that why a "black" comes to an unpolished white school where whites are  teachers  .Externally the learners are primitive.  Even the white teachers couldn't handle them. Here the black teacher ,Thackery astonishes hiim. Above race and creed humanity exists."STUDENTS STARTED TO LOVE HIM ONLY WHEN HE STARTED TO LOVE  THEM".No other can't do it.Love changes everybody .Love prevails everywhere.
                A revolution indeed..the same scenario is happening nowadays too.Learners are not primitive externally. But internally they are . Love is the only weapon to handle them. He is a teacher but he wants to be an engineer.The way he captivises  The children by asking  them to prepare  a receipe attract our attention . Though he has no formal  training in education , he performs well..He realises that formal curricula and system are not in tune with the real life.He put aside the formal books and starts to teach real life situation .It always exhorts us not to be a formal teacher adhering stick to the system butn to follow an informal friendly teaching or' real life' lovable teaching .the director cleverly juxtaposes  two situations . one from curricular and other from real life.the teacher is credible both to the mother and the girl. (representig the two sections.)the same question has some relevances.too.
                 Number of pictures have shown in this film. the teacher wants to make his class an art gallery with various pictures .Why does  the teacher stay in the class room after the students leave the class? His determination prevails throughout the film.he likes to deal with living creatures than with machines.that is why he tears up the appointment order and continue in the school.
Donot relegate this film into an educational fillm.It is one of the many aspects . while oppression are going on throughout the world a down trodden or disadvataged negro -because of the colour -turn upside down the very system which revolves round  the whitish people.  In short it is an attempt to create the other world WHICH IS JUST OPPOSITE TO THE PRESENT  WORLD.


Thursday, 21 July 2011

                                                                    REVIEW

Any review has its own significance .Though ICT is not a panacea for all teaching learning processes,it has its own implications on the modern classrooms.Hence when we read anything about ict related subjects ,it will reflect not thier visions but our impact on their visions.
                 The essay under consideratins is Rexlin jose and Dr. B Willam Dharmaraja's essay FACTORS AFFECTING PRONUNCIATION  IN 'ENGLISH CLASSROOM BI ANNUAL JOURNAL'.OF DECEMBER 2010.THE MOST VOLATILE SUBJECT  in ESL classroom's indeed .

                       Without communication no language can't exist .two modes of communication are spoken and written.Spoken language comes first  .English was a lingua franca once.Now it reaches into the level of global language .In every fields -business,higher education ,journalism and in all  fields english prevails.

             The emphasis on pronunciation leads us to a better speaking and confidence making process.It is very quientesstial in language teaching .How can we improve the prounciation skills? This essay gives us an ample response to it.We can adopt television and other multimedias for listening and improving it.Each language has its own culture.Through the proper pronunciation  we get it .The essay exhorts that listening to the native speaker through  BBC,British tv and other multimedia resourses .It gives us a proper knowledge on word stess, intonation ,and minimal pair.It exhorts the learner to give adequate emphasis on supra segmental features .
              
In short december 2010 of the English forum provides new horizon of knoweldge by dealing with this issue.

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ always produces children's educational websites  which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity ,learning and enjoyment .There are around 30000 pages which are full of curriculam materials.T his website is availalable in japaneese ,porugeese,spanish and sweden.they themselves assert that various topics related to biology ,physical science ,languages, k-2 geography and historyappear in it.all this ideas are presented in an amazing manner

Friday, 15 July 2011

THE IMPORTANCE OF RIE TRAINING

IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THIS KIND OF  TEACHER 'S TRAINNING SHOULD BE  GIVEN TO ALL NEW  ENGLISH TEACHERS.IT GIVES NEW HORIZONS AND PERCEPTION 'S .THE SOCIAL OBJECTIVES  AND SOCIAL  OUTLOOK GIVE THE REAL MEANING OF EDUCATION.