THE HSSTs MEET

THE DULLARD REVISITED
A REVIEW OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE HSST’S
ORIENTATION COURSE AT KOTTAKKAL RAJA’S HSS ON MAY21, 2007

A Teacher is a philosopher.
Somebody has said,
“a philosopher in one who is
searching for a black cat in a dark room
while the thing is not there!”
The same predicament was seen as usual on the first day of the training course. The teachers were found searching for the black cats of cognitive psychology and social constructivism, but at a wrong place. It was once again, to use a moderate adjective, useless- a sheer waste of time and public wealth.
Nothing is achieved. Nothing is oriented
Nobody is inspired to go with something unusual or different.

It’s better to say less about everything. Brevity is the soul of wit.
The forenoon session started at 11.30 (2 hours late!) lacked concrete blue print, preface, on the 3-day programme. Without much beating about the bush the esteemed Rps (the resourceful persons!!) made several desperate attempts to trigger a cold discussion. Neither the circulated handouts of student’s erroneous answer sheets nor the miserable attempt of the Rps help command response from the idle HSSTs in English. They miserably failed to generate the desired interaction. The stimulation rendered by the Rps and the response of the facilitators reflected the very experience and reaction the teachers get in our classrooms.

Who is to be blamed here? The subject or object?
Nobody knows and nothing happens.

In the afternoon session, the next task was a discussion of the curriculum objectives of the First Block of the Second-year text. It also reached nowhere but some of us had reached home by then! That was the first day.
But being a teacher I should be very positive: let us go back to the cat, the philosopher’s black cat. Quoting Achumama, “regardless of the color and creed, the cats recruited ought to catch the rats. That’s all.



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