Advantages
for Teachers
How many holidays
have we spent in making worksheets for our classes? Or making practice test questions?
In thinking up ways to motivate our students? Teaching
is a profession that demands us to deliver the best every minute. And it is a
very stressful profession if we choose to execute our duties in an intellectually
honest manner. In all our classes,
right now, there is a volcano of talent ready to erupt. If we look at this in
a positive way, it opens up new and exciting avenues for us teachers. The
SmartStudy Programme is one such avenue. It offers us a way to reduce our burden,
minimise mechanical parts of our job, and enables us to concentrate on the more
creative aspects of our profession. As
teachers, we all yearn for a great textbook and an ideal teaching assistant. The
SmartStudy Programme is both these. An ideal textbook - because it has been written
and developed under the experienced eye of the Board of Editors. All of whom are
distinguished academics, and great teachers as well. Who also have always felt
the need for a great textbook to teach from. The
lessons in the SmartStudy Programme are structured in the same way as a good teacher
would teach in the class. To begin with, It states the objectives of the lesson.
If we are unable to define what we teach, how do we ensure that its content is
understood or learnt? Do we not then
go on to explain a concept, make it interesting so that the bored looks get motivated?
Do we not then illustrate the working of the concept, give examples, ask questions
to test understanding, give homework, give tests? It sounds simple enough but
every diligent teacher will agree that every student is a challenge that he or
she must take on, enjoy and spur on. The
offering is also an ideal teaching assistant.
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It ensures that the child is prepared for the lesson when you are about to start.
The prerequisites, pretests and objectives that are available for each lesson,
make this possible.
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The topic explanations are structured in a manner that provides highly efficient
and effective dissemination of knowledge.
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There are some useful activities built into the lessons that you as a teacher
can conduct with ease in the class.
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The question paper configurator based on the immense question bank allows you
to prepare question papers in an instant - tailored to your needs or to the needs
of the student. The questions are tagged across parameters such as memory, knowledge,
applications and for 3 levels of difficulty. Thus you can tell whether the student
is weak in terms of concepts or in terms of memory and at what level of difficulty. Does
that mean that using SmartStudy is a means to substitute the teacher?
Not
in the least. A student can read the introduction to the concept of Light in the
textbook or on the Internet. But will it be a better introduction than the one
given by a teacher who has herself read the textbook, has looked through the introduction
on SmartStudy, has done her own research and brings to the class her love of and
passion for the subject? Never! A
good teacher can only get better using the SmartStudy Programme. Her students
can only be more empowered if she is enlightened enough and encourages them to
use it too. Why? Because it is one
more way for her students to increase their knowledge, sharpen their skills. And
the SmartStudy Programme can be a true friend because of the synergy between the
course and our lesson plans. And in the ultimate analysis, all routes to knowledge
available to a student must be endorsed and encouraged by a committed and sincere
teacher. We teachers know the power
we exercise over young minds. They look up to us constantly to guide them, inspire
them. And sometimes our role overpowers that of the parents'. Let us be true to
ourselves and true to our chosen profession and give our students every opportunity
available to them. Let us empower them through knowledge and insight and spur
them on in directions which will lead them far beyond they may have dared imagine!
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