Tag: teaching

  • MY TEACHERS DAY TRIBUTE

    MY TEACHERS DAY TRIBUTE

    SEPTEMBER 3, 2025 TRANSCRIPT Sept. 5 – Teachers Day in India – is about teaching. It is dedicated to all educators from Nursery Teachers to University professors in memory of India’s first (sic) President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan. He taught philosophy at the Universities of Madras, Mysore, Calcutta in India; at Manchester College and Oxford in…

  • T&L Music and Language – Here, There… Where?

    Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady’s chamber… The contexts in which private music classes for beginners are held and a school classroom are surprisingly similar in certain ways. Anyone who has studied in an Indian school is familiar with how classrooms look and classes function. With no change over 60 years that I remember. (That dates…

  • T&L Music & Language:     I Teach, So I Am

    T&L Music & Language: I Teach, So I Am

    A Subject teacher complained vociferously about Arts teachers at a meeting. “They don’t know history, philosophy or pedagogy of education, “ she said. “we can’t talk to them about anything related to our classroom or students. All day long they sing or sit around listening to songs.  They don’t do anything. ” There was a profound,…

  • T&L Music and Language: I Perform, So I Should Be

    Teachers are often likened to actors, they are said to ‘perform’ in front of students in their classes, which is a contentious statement when we examine their belief systems. (Another topic for another post.) Arts and language teachers can ‘perform’ their content. Music is undoubtedly a performance art, with a public stage and an audience…

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