Teaching is Learning

  My dear Heart, It has indeed been a long time getting in touch with you. How have you been? There has so much been happening with you, around you, and inside you. The pandemic related fear and anxieties have been affecting you a lot, I understand.  The news of ‘new and total cases’ are not reaching you now, as I have stopped accessing the news.  But, the news of near and dear ones getting infected run deeper inside you.  That affects a lot, I know.   In addition, I am exposed through daily commuting to work in a carpool. The instances of visiting family members and sharing sweet-bitter times with some friends have their share of tension too.   I also know that I have not been able to maintain routines of physical exercises, meditation, creativity, and reading.  How much one can do, right? – has been my reasoning for not being proactive at things. Things that money cannot buy have always been important to you, I know.   Solace, joy, peace, to nam...

  I remain reflective over the last twelve years of my life as a teacher.   I ponder over myself, my students, and my experience of teaching and learning. My previous blogs on such reflections are here , here and here . One such occasion for reflection is Teacher’s day when I receive many – general and personal – messages from the students on phone and email. This is also the day when students put together a formal function for all teachers at the institute. The messages that I received this year were from a few old, many current, and some new students, who have joined us a week ago. Many of these messages had personal gratitude of what my teaching meant for students, and how interactions with me – inside and outside the classroom – helped in transforming themselves. Going through the messages, and sending similar messages to a few selected teachers who transformed me, I pondered over a few more things about the teachers, the teaching, the teacher’s day celebrations. I unders...

  I remain reflective over the last twelve years of my life as a teacher.   I ponder over myself, my students, and my experience of teaching and learning. My previous blogs on such reflections are here , here and here . One such occasion for reflection is Teacher’s day when I receive many – general and personal – messages from the students on phone and email. This is also the day when students put together a formal function for all teachers at the institute. The messages that I received this year were from a few old, many current, and some new students, who have joined us a week ago. Many of these messages had personal gratitude of what my teaching meant for students, and how interactions with me – inside and outside the classroom – helped in transforming themselves. Going through the messages, and sending similar messages to a few selected teachers who transformed me, I pondered over a few more things about the teachers, the teaching, the teacher’s day celebrations. I und...