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Practice Makes a Man Perfect
It is true that some people are born teachers. It Swarnali Ghosh
means that they have aptitude and talent for
the teaching profession. But it is also true that schools for training. I was sent to Carmel
perfection does not come naturally by birth. School (English Medium), Samlong. It was a
Nurturing and polishing through a proper life enriching experience. We got opportunities
training can mould them into perfection. The to delve into the minds of children at different
nine months of rigorous training in making of levels to experience real-classroom teaching,
teachers makes it possible. It is a misconception explore our creativity in teaching- learning
that teachers’ duty is to impart knowledge and process and to experiment different techniques
information only. The job of teaching demands and methods to teach pupil. It was a period
multi-tasking. This is what we are taught in to analyze our own drawbacks and realize
the Department of Education. We have been our strengths. I feel that this was the period
exposed to multitude of activities for the of intense learning for me. I realize that along
purpose though we felt that the soul of this with teaching, I also learned to forge bonds at
training programme lies in Practice teaching the institutions. The subject teachers of the
session. Before going to different schools for respective schools guided us and supervised
one-month to get an experience of teaching us. I have learnt that teaching is not an easy
in real classrooms (commonly called Practice job. It is an art. It is not imparting knowledge,
teaching), a pre training session has been it is shaping up students, letting them explore
organized in the Department. Through Micro- their creative aspects and giving them freedom
teaching and Peer appraisal sessions, trainees to speak and share their ideas. The bag full of
have been taught various teaching skills and memories and experience helped each one of
made to teach their peer-mates. They have us grow as teacher and step towards becoming
been guided, supervised and moulded into good teachers and not merely teachers.
perfection by their mentor teacher educators.
Thus, the practice teaching session was fruitful
During the Practice teaching session, students for all and is essential for pupil teachers to
are divided into groups of around eight to ten progress towards perfection. This session not
pupil-teachers and are sent to ten different only groomed us but also made us love the
profession more and respect it through our one
month’s practice.
The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Practice Makes a Man Perfect
It is true that some people are born teachers. It Swarnali Ghosh
means that they have aptitude and talent for
the teaching profession. But it is also true that schools for training. I was sent to Carmel
perfection does not come naturally by birth. School (English Medium), Samlong. It was a
Nurturing and polishing through a proper life enriching experience. We got opportunities
training can mould them into perfection. The to delve into the minds of children at different
nine months of rigorous training in making of levels to experience real-classroom teaching,
teachers makes it possible. It is a misconception explore our creativity in teaching- learning
that teachers’ duty is to impart knowledge and process and to experiment different techniques
information only. The job of teaching demands and methods to teach pupil. It was a period
multi-tasking. This is what we are taught in to analyze our own drawbacks and realize
the Department of Education. We have been our strengths. I feel that this was the period
exposed to multitude of activities for the of intense learning for me. I realize that along
purpose though we felt that the soul of this with teaching, I also learned to forge bonds at
training programme lies in Practice teaching the institutions. The subject teachers of the
session. Before going to different schools for respective schools guided us and supervised
one-month to get an experience of teaching us. I have learnt that teaching is not an easy
in real classrooms (commonly called Practice job. It is an art. It is not imparting knowledge,
teaching), a pre training session has been it is shaping up students, letting them explore
organized in the Department. Through Micro- their creative aspects and giving them freedom
teaching and Peer appraisal sessions, trainees to speak and share their ideas. The bag full of
have been taught various teaching skills and memories and experience helped each one of
made to teach their peer-mates. They have us grow as teacher and step towards becoming
been guided, supervised and moulded into good teachers and not merely teachers.
perfection by their mentor teacher educators.
Thus, the practice teaching session was fruitful
During the Practice teaching session, students for all and is essential for pupil teachers to
are divided into groups of around eight to ten progress towards perfection. This session not
pupil-teachers and are sent to ten different only groomed us but also made us love the
profession more and respect it through our one
month’s practice.
The real mistake is to stop trying.
72
