Blaze a trail!

All it takes is a determined educator, to shape a confident, worthy and self-sufficient world!

Draftsman to Learning

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.                                                                                                                                      - Benjamin Bloom

Benjamin Bloom was a U.S. psychiatrist who made several significant contributions to education, mastery learning, and talent development. Born in 1913 in Lansford, Pennsylvania, he exhibited a passion for reading and research from an early age. Bloom attended Pennsylvania State University and earned a bachelor’s degree and a master's degree, then he became a member of the University of Chicago’s Board of Examinations in 1940. He also served internationally as an educational adviser, working with Israel, India and several other nations. The Ford Foundation sent him to India in 1957 where he ran workshops on educational evaluation. 

If you're not sure where you are going, you're liable to end up some place else.                                                                                        - Robert F Mager                                                                                                              

Robert Mager is an American psychologist and author. Concerned with understanding and improving human performance, he is known for developing a framework for preparing learning objectives, and criterion referenced instruction (CRI), as well as addressing areas of goal orientation, student evaluation, student motivation, classroom environment, educational change, performance technology, and instructional design. Mager is one of the founders of International Society for Performance Improvement  (ISPI) in 1962, originally known as National Society for Programmed Instruction (NSPI) and also a Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE).

Getting started with the 'Objectives'

On reaching a point, the first question that'd arise in anyone is What next?

I have decided 'to teach' ... and I already feel a spear at my neck pricking 'What do you teach unless your are known on how to teach and what to teach?

Reading up further..brings me to this;

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom with collaborators Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl published a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Familiarly known as Bloom's Taxonomy, this framework has been applied by generations of K-12 teachers and college instructors in their teaching.

The framework elaborated by Bloom and his collaborators consisted of six major categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. The categories after Knowledge were presented as “skills and abilities,” with the understanding that knowledge was the necessary precondition for putting these skills and abilities into practice.

Where are we? Why are we here?

"Education is the realization of the self" 

                                                                Shankaracharya

Majored in English Literature and experienced in two variant curriculum's, the decision to become an educator with a 'Bachelor's in Education' brought me to a portal that seems to open to multiple horizons (Christ Nagar College of Education). Who do I aspire to become at the end of two years or perhaps for the rest of my life? This was a question that stifled me for the past couple of days. Having pondered on it for a while...here I am with a determined response. I see myself as an erudite or knowledgeable learner, as I believe learning is for life! 

This blog will encapsulate my realizations and experiences; in the course of two years, at the end of which I believe, I will have reached an indelible milestone!

A Dated Memory

Loving before knowing is faith or folly?

perhaps it’s just me,

the queer me..

I wanted to learn,

din’t know where to begin though.

I chose a place, a path.

It seemed like a way to God, people hustling,

similar in desires,attires,strides…

Straight, left, left, right, left on and on.

Knowledge stifled,

familiarized

and then bored..

Campus limited; to friends, fun, food and libraries

that seemed it,with the right, right and left…

There exists two sides of everything.

Like really?

Pain came with loss, sorrow and darkness

ignorance with hate and rivalry.

All, in light  of experience and love!

Wisdom didn’t make sense.

Our world remained filthy, unruly and noisy,

A wall apart lay divinity

the Garden of Virtues..

A lush green land of silence.

all it took was a right, right , left, straight and a heart.

Knowledge opened to love,

forgiveness and faith

Nature became passion,

beauty, wonder and mine!

For loving before knowing is faith that heals…

I walked amidst people who never spoke!

They smiled with their hearts...

They were silent, I could hear me

Left alone with stacks of books,

if not to read, to feel…

Led into nature; bare..

to witness the very beginning of curiosity!

Now I know ...

amidst all ignorance and wreck,

there exists,

a realm of memory

preserved for life!