How do i teach?

Once upon a time, I have criticize the use of OHP( Over Head Projector) in teaching, the real fault is not with the OHP but with the OHP sheet/transparancy sheet, because many just copy the content from the book into the OHP sheet. Once it is projected overhead, the students just copy the content blindly into their note books, where the words from the teachers mouth just fades away. When i started teaching, the black board and the diffrent colored crayons came to mind, fortunately in my school they had white board with black marker.

I was very happy with the white board and the black marker, untill the day my colleague Ann experienced a very bad incident in the class. she forget the black marker in an instance of hurrying to the class and used a green marker given by her class representative, after drawing a wierd layout of a medium size hotel for fourty minutes with her green pen on the white board, she found that the layout couldn't be erased. We tried all possible solutions and chemicals to erase it, and finally the white board turned into a green, black, grey color, which ended up in our useless storage room.

The fear of permanent marker, made Ann and many other teachers to use OHP , but still i was not convinced and went to class with neither marker nor OHP. The topic for that day was cuts of meat and i started with chicken, then with pork, lamb and beef. I was literally acting as a chicken in the class room using both my hands for the wings of chicken, i bended down to teach cuts of pork and other meats, exposing my thighs for ham and belly for bacon. i do not know how many understood and After solid fourty minutes , i was happy , that there were no cuts of frog in the syllabi.

Hardly very few learned to cut, so the next week i purchased a couple of chicken, and a demonstration even helped Subramaniya Iyer to enjoy cutting a chicken and then things concerned with the cuts of chicken became very clear to the students. But, with the pork, beef and other meats, i was not able to find any slaughtering house in the town. The alternative - a vedio about the cuts of meat, unlike the live demonstration, the video can be rewined as many times as possible till the students understands the concept.

Even now i hate the copy cat OHP/transparancy sheet or the one Mr.XXX use which is twelve years old( Don't he feel like updating? Or Is he lazy to the core?). and today with all the modern technology available ,with the use of ICT in education, the virtual learning and many.Its worth trying all possible methods . It is very much easy to criticize, in the end, how far you are able to make the students to understand the concept is all that matter.

HAPPY TEACHING AND HAPPY LEARNING.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.