TEACHER'S WORLD

TEACHER'S WORLD
“You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself?” .
Romans II , 2:21


As a teacher this is my guiding principle. Before, I had the opportunity of learning the theoretical and practical side of the art of pedagogy. My main source of inspiration and introspection about this profession was manly such quotations, words my Gurus --“….teacher should not only teach the prescribed syllabus, but also essential lessons from the syllabus called ‘life’ ”.-Proff. Ninan -- and books of course. Regarding books I should mention at least three books at length. “The Art of Teaching” by Gilbert H and Autobiographical works of Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes and Teacher Man) .
Let me start with Franks works. It was from Reader’s Digest that I first came to Know about him . He was recollecting his first class as a teacher. This article led me to the knowledge that Frank was a teacher at Stuyvesant High School , New York was also the teacher of the year 1976. More than that he was catapulted to fame by winning the coveted Pulitzer Prize for his Autobiography Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir -recollection of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland -at the age of sixty-six . Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Brooklyn , New York , to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland and returned to America in 1949. For 30 years he taught in New York . Second installment of his autobiography is entitled ‘Tis dealing with his early years in New York . His third and probably the final installment- Teacher Man- of his autobiography is that matters me to a lot as a teacher. This work is all about his 30 years long teaching career. Frank traces the ups and downs, tests and accomplishments as a teacher of creative writing New York High Schools.

About “The Art of Teaching” by Gilbert H , sometimes later......