Teaching skills

 Teaching skills

For my personal understanding, I observed my teachers at school, and could notice that they can be classified into 3 broad categories. ( This type of classification has nothing to do with any popular, authentic, or official, kinds of classification. In fact the ‘best’ teacher as per my_personal imagination might NEVER fetch even a tiny speck of recognition….. forget about a “best teacher award”😂

1)this teacher does just a job( for wages). Nothing more. If any student learns something, call it a lucky kid🙏😜😜

2)this teacher is a ‘bit’ concerned about whether a few atleast are able to understand. ( Reality is those few are anyway going to learn with or without a_teacher. Any batch of 50 kids will contain about 4 to 5 kids who learn a bit. This teacher can even ‘brag’ 20 years later that “these 5 were MY STUDENTS 👍” , and these 5 will also ENDORSE this teacher 😜. No mention about “why the other 45 remained dull”

3)My favourite type🙏. These rare+few teachers feel “my responsibility to make sure, that kids learn”( salary is a mere CONSEQUENCE, not their only_purpose for teaching). They ask questions to randomly picked kids across the classroom, to “find out” whether they ‘taught' well? They repeat the lesson if 4 out of 6 kids are unable to answer. Each class is an “examination” for this teacher, whereas for their students, the exams are only 6 times an year. 

The teaching skills….. the way I see, is inversely proportional to the “level” of toughness of lessons 🙏. ( An LKG teacher needs HIGHEST level of skills to teach 13 to 26 alphabets of English, 1 to 10 numerals, rhymes etc. A PhD teacher needs only GnawLedge, and has to give ‘bits’ of hint, about how to Gnaw bits of ledges of undiscovered forest of trees of knowledge…😜)

My bad luck! I came to know, how worthless I was, when I agreed to Volunteer for providing ‘backup’ support to freshers who went through a basic a spiritual program. I was supposed to ‘show’ them the right way of doing certain spiritual practices. Over a period of more than 5 years , I experienced the ‘trials and tribulations ‘ of the ancient Guru's, who were setting rigorous standards for accepting a disciple. And I could ‘visualise’ the highest humanly possible levels of good_teaching skills required only_for spiritual teachers😓😥😭

( The silver lining of my turbulent phase of volunteering was…. I formulated a guess_work of the ‘syllabus’ of ancient Gurukul 😜🙏… 4 items in that syllabus, but it is treated as irrelevant today👍)

Dumbly yours,

psn(19 july, 2025)