Read the main points out of Declaration on Child’s Rights and make sure you won’t break a law in future. Write down your recommendations both to the parents and teachers.

 

Eglantine Jebb, the founder of the Save the Children Fund drafted the Rights of the Child in 1923. It was revised in 1948 by the present Declaration of the Rights of the Child commonly known as the Declaration of Geneva.

These principles form the basis of our work and the Charter of the Save the Child Fund.

1. The child must be protected beyond and above all consideration of race, nationality or creed.

2. The child must be cared for with due respect for the family as an entity.

3. The child must be given the means, requisite for its normal development, materially, morally and spiritually.

4. The child that is mentally or physically handicapped must be helped, the maladjusted child must be re-educated, the orphan and the waif must be sheltered and succored.

5. The child must be the first to receive relief in time of distress.

6. The child must enjoy the full benefits provided by social welfare and social security systems, must receive training which will enable it, at the right time, to earn a livelihood, and must be protected against every form of exploitation.

7. The child must be brought up in the consciousness that its talents must be developed to the service of its fellow men.

 

Read a little nursery rhyme. Tell the class what point of the Declaration the teacher violates.

 

Doctor Faustas was a good man,

He whipped his scholars now and then,

When he whipped them he made them dance

Out of England into France,

Out of France into Spain,

And then he whipped them back again.

 

RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARENTS

Read an article and suggest why tolerance and harmony are important in relations with the parents.

 

Do your parents love you?

Mark Twain, the great American writer, used to say when he was fourteen his father was so ignorant he could hardly stand to have him around. But when he was twenty-one he was astonished at how much his father had learned in those seven years.

Today, your parents may seem to you to be people who keep on saying: “Now when I was young …” But believe me that is how their parents seemed to be to them when they were young. Today parents are in my opinion more tolerant of the behavior of their sons and daughters than ever before. I wonder, however, whether you are tolerant.

I heard recently of a father who was found sitting on the front steps of his house at three in the morning by a policeman. ‘What are you doing here? ’ asked the policeman, ‘Oh, ’ said the man, ‘I’ve lost my key so I’m waiting for my children to come home and let me in.’ but few parents stay out ‘partying’ until the early hours in the morning. I wonder how you would feel if your parents started doing this and you had to wait up until they came in? Even if you didn’t wait up for them! Would you not be asking such questions as ‘Where have you been? What have you been doing? ’ How would you react to their answers? What we all need – you, the young people and those who are older – is tolerance. There are, you all know, black and white keys on a piano. Play them altogether thoughtlessly, without any rules, and you get discord. But if you understand music and spend some more time practicing, you can, with the same black and white keys, produce sweet harmony. Why not try? You start. You’ll be surprised at how quickly your people will respond.

After Gordon Williams.

Ask your parent or a close relative about his or her schooldays. Write down your interview survey.

TEACHER’S VITAL ROLE IN SOCIETY

 

1. Watch a movie ‘Teachers are people’ and answer the questions.

1) Does education play a vital role in the modern community?

2) What are the qualities of the modern teacher?

3) Does an experienced teacher always ‘equip himself’ for the classroom? What does it mean?

Guess what will happen in the second part of the cartoon. Watch and check. Answer the questions below.

1) What are the names of the children in the classroom?

2) How many children are there at the lesson?

3) What is the first lesson? Is it interesting for children? Why?

4) Are the children really eager to return to the classroom?

5) What are the next lessons? At what time do the lessons finish?

6) What does a teacher do after the classes?

Read the quotes about teaching children. Which one do think the best one. Prove your point of view.

Quality teaching involves both the head and the heart. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

Read an essay written by a student on the case of his teacher absence. Is a teacher really important in the children’s life?

Did I miss anything?

Nothing. When we realized you weren’t here we sat with our hands folded on our desks in silence, for the full two hours.

Everything, I gave an exam worth 40 percent of the grade for this term and assigned some reading due today on which I’m about to hand out a quiz worth 50 percent.

Nothing. None of the content of this course has value or meaning. Take as many days off as you like: any activities we undertake as a class I assure you will not matter either to you or me and are without purpose.

Everything. A few minutes after we began last time a shaft of light suddenly descended and an angel or other heavenly being appeared and revealed to us what each man or woman must do to attain divine wisdom in this life and hereafter. This is the last time the class will meet before we disperse to bring the good news to all people on earth.

Nothing. When you are not present how could something significant occur?

Everything. Contained in this classroom is a microcosm of human experience assembled for you to query and examine and ponder. This is not the only place such an opportunity has been gathered.

But it was one place and you weren’t here.

By Tom Wayman

Teaching has always been a complex role and it has become more so as schools have taken on increased social responsibility. To understand the role as it exists today requires a brief historical review. Read and make a scheme. Tell the class what has changed crucially in the teachers’ lives. Do you want to be a teacher of 1872?

 

RULES FOR TEACHERS

 

1. Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.

2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s session.

3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.

4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.

5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.

6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.

7. Every teacher should lay aside from each day pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.

8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or get shaved in a barber shop will give reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty.

9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Eucation approves.

 

Women were required to sign: I promise …..

to take a vital interest in all phases of Sunday-school work, donating of my time, service and money without stint for the benefit and uplift of the community;

to abstain from dancing, immodest dressing and any other conduct unbecoming a teacher or a lady;

not to go out with any young man except as it may be necessary to stimulate Sunday-school work;

not to fall in love, to become engaged or secretly married;

to remain in the dormitory or on the schools grounds when not actively engaged in school or church work elsewhere.

Not to encourage or tolerate the least familiarity on the past of any of my boy students;

To wear not less than 2 petticoats.

 

20^th century

Teachers were expected to teach and to ensure that they knew something about pedagogy. They were expected to have 2 years of college preparation at the beginning of the century and a bachelor degree at the end.

Teaching gradually came to be viewed as a career.

 

21^st century

Teachers should have a good grasp of the ways in which all kinds of physical and social systems work, a feeling for what data are and the uses to which they can be put, an ability to help students see patterns of meaning where the others see only confusion, an ability to foster genuine creativity in students, and the ability to work with other people in work groups that decide for themselves how to get the job done. They must be able to learn all the time, as the knowledge required to do their work twists and turns with new challenges and the progress of science and technology. Teachers will not come to school knowing all they have to know, but knowing how to figure out what they need to know, where to get it and how to help others make meaning of it.

AN EDUCATOR OF FUTURE

 

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