Students always emulate their teachers, making it critical for teachers to remain abreast and updated as role models. Teachers can make this happen by being active holistic learners rather than textbook rote learners as students imitate teachers in more in their actions than the subject matter they teach,” said Dr Gururaj Karajagi Senior Educationist
He was speaking at the 60-year Diamond Jubilee Celebration program of Kannada Sangh’s ‘Kaveri Group of Institutes’, Dr Kalmadi Shamrao High School, Kannada Medium School. He kept the audience in splits with his anecdotes and light-hearted remarks.
On the occasion, Dr Karajagi was felicitated in the presence of Kannada Sangh Secretary Malati Kalmadi, Vice President Indira Salian, Trustee Balajit Shetty, Jt-Treasurer Radhika Sharma and Principal Chandrakant Harkude.
Adding further Dr Karajagi said, “Students observe and imitate their teacher’s behaviour right from their habits, discipline, manner of speaking, warmth, outward appearance to their negative approaches. Keeping this in mind, creative education today, is more of a need than an option. Rather than the examination-centered method, teachers should keep a flexible approach, inculcate student-cantered learning approaches and classroom management skills.”
He also said, “Students acquire knowledge at four levels – physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. They also come with different learning abilities, and this makes it important for teachers to adopt methods like visual learning, auditory learning, reading, writing, and experiential learning. This also helps in keeping their curiosity burning, making both learning and teaching an enjoyable experience.”
“Students should be taught to make optimal use of their five senses with the help of diagrams, pictures, maps, photographs, stories, portraits, surveys, case studies, analytics, reasoning, objective understanding, critiques, graphics, seminars, presentations, quizzes and so on. Most importantly, teachers must help in developing awareness of human values among the students,” Dr Karajagi added further.
Malati Kalmadi detailed the work being done by Kannada Sangh and introduced the guests. Audio-visual tapes showing the progress of the organization were also presented. Students presented various quality programs. The book ‘Kannada Shika’ written by Sashikala Gundlupet was also released on this occasion. Shobha Panchangamath and Vilma Martis moderated the program while Shreya Habbu and Sumathi Srinivasan presented the vote of thanks.
