Prakash, a forty years old man lives with his wife and daughter in a small town near Parvani. He has his own business, an electronic shop. His business does not grow very well, but he is satisfied with what he has and tells his wife, “we are three members only, this is enough.”His wife Ragini is always happy with the family affair. His daughter’s name is Aditi. She is twelve years old and studying in a good school in eight standard.
Prakash lives in a bungalow with a big land around it. He planted mango tree around the land. Every year he plants one mango tree and it grows well within a year. His friend Mr. Olekar asks him,’ Tell, What is the secret of your mango tree my friend!
He smiles and says,” it’s nothing, its only love”. “Love? What are you talking asks Mr. Olekar to his friend. Prakash describes how he plants his mango tree. He takes the seed, make a thirty feet hole, put cow dung and affectionately put his warm hand on the seed and put it on the hole. After that covers it with the mud around.
Two weeks later, two tender leaves shake and appear. He waits till they grow a little. From that day he loves the tree like a child. He bathes it with water, wipes it tender care. Then when it grows little taller, he puts in more soil at the side of the plant. Every day he takes care of it, he sings song near the tree. It shakes its leaves when it hears the song. He sprinkles water as if it’s taking a bath and its father is taking care of it. After that he digs some of the soil from the side and puts some fresh soil near it. Then the tree grows almost up to waist line within two years. His joy knows no bound. Looking at the growing tree, Prakash’s eyes fills with tears
With love anything is possible. My dear friend, even with little love and care a tree grows faster. Though tree is a selfless product, it doesn’t expect anything from anyone, but it also understands the meaning of love.
Love is a state of mind or a mental expression which is very near to bliss. Showering love to anyone or anything gives happiness which cannot be achieved by any other means. Love is what you give, not what you want. Prakash feels that love can change the life of living being in this universe.
This article is for Valentine Day as Love has no boundaries

Attention means fixing the mind or thoughts on something. Attention is the basic need for all successful teaching. Attention is always present in conscious life and is common to all types of mental activity. It is a necessary condition for all types of mental activities. It is the concentration of consciousness upon one object or other. According to Ross,” Attention is the process of getting an object of thought clearly before the mind”

Domville has defined attention as—“It is the concentration of consciousness upon one object rather than upon another”. It is the weapon of teaching –learning process. It is the duty of a teacher to create interest, so that the child should be attentive in the class. If the child is attentive in the class, the teacher can motivate him to study well.

Involuntary Attention: It is a spontaneous attention. It does not require any effort on the part of an individual. E.g. sudden loud noise, a bright flash of light, mosquito bite, painful stimulation of any kind.

Voluntary or volitional attention: There is a conscious effort on our part. If a child takes pain to understand difficult sums, he voluntarily pays attention to the sums. In the examination hall, a student concentrates on the answer of a question and keeps away mind from distraction element like movement of the supervisor.

Non-volitional or Enforced attention: This type lasts as long as there is a stimulus. It is sustained because it appeals to our instinct. This type of attention is very common in small children. Curiosity attracts attention.

Spontaneous non-volitional attention: This type of attention develops on interest. The teacher has to just develop the desirable sentiments for things in the children.

Implicit volitional attention: This type of attention is obtained by introducing some motives such as rewards or punishments.

Explicit volitional attention: Repeated efforts are made to obtain the types of attention. E.g. preparing for an examination, a student makes repeated efforts to learn the portion.

Habitual Attention

During the course of our experience with several things, we are conditioned to attend certain stimuli. This type of attention is seen when one develops interest in the subject. His attention is always attracted towards the subject of his interest. The person who is having interest in singing will be attracted towards the concert. A naturalist is habituated to look for plants.

Mawlynnong   is the cleanest village in the world situated in eastern state of Meghalaya, India. The photo of the village was given on my site on 13th November.

Though traveling is a part of our life yet we miss so many things in our life. We all are really lucky as we visited such a paradise on earth. The eastern India is worth seeing. When we visited the place, I thought that God  lives  in the midst of forest. We believe that God lives in heaven. The heaven is no where else, it is in this place only.

I shall put  more photographs from my album to make you aware that you need not search heaven any where , it is here on Earth.

• Sensation of tiredness: If anyone works continuously, he is unable to concentrate on work and feels tired. Rabindranath Tagore says “This weariness forgive me oh! My Lord”.
• Less glycogen level: The decreased glycogen levels and the pressure of toxic substances in the blood cause fatigue.
• Lack of oxygen: During any muscular activity, oxygen from the blood cells is used and cause fatigue.
• Lack of Motivation: If the person is not motivated, his work efficiency becomes less and he experiences fatigue very easily.
• Lack of adequate sleep: Sound sleep is needed for good health. Lack of sound sleep affects work production and hence causes fatigue.
• Lack of Ventilation: Lack of proper ventilation affect the health, work efficiency and causes fatigue.
• Proper interest: If there is no interest in the work, it turns to be boring and causes fatigue.
• Illness: Long illness or sedative dose of medicine and has just recovered, gets fatigued easily.

Dysgraphia is a learning disability resulting to difficulty in expressing thoughts in writing.The student may not form words correctly and there is difficulty in writing within a certain space. It takes time to write neatly.

Writing involves several brain functions:

1) Vocabulary

2) Grammar

3)Hand-movement

Sign or the characteristics of Dysgraphia

1) Illegible handwriting- very bad handwriting.

2) Inconsistency– mixture of cursive and print letters.

3) Talk to self— murmurs.

4) Unfinished words & letters, omitted words.

5) Inconsistent in spacing words & letters.

6)  Cramped grip i.e unusual grip of pencil or pen.

7)  Give slope while writing.

Very slow at writing.

9) Random or not existent punctuation, spelling mistakes, errors in common suffixes.

Dealing with Dysgraphic children

a) Considering the rate of producing written work.

b)  Considering the volume of the work to be produced.

c) Considering the complexity of the writing task.

d) Considering tool used to produced the work.

e) Considering the format of the product.

Dyslexia is a condition where a child experiences severe difficulties in reading,he is unable to read. It is a language based disability in which the person has trouble in understanding words, sentences and paragraphs. The students have the problem to understand

i) letters

ii) group of letters

iii)  sentences or paragraph  e.g dog—bog

There are two major dysfunctions—

i) development specific disability—- biological condition comes from heredity.

ii) Acquired specific dyslexia—due to trauma, mental shock or injury

Problem

a) Surface— can read the word, but can not recognise the word.

b) Spelling— reads correctly, writes wrong.

c) Direct— jumps from one part to another. Skips words or sentences

All dyslexic do not have same symptoms, it could be:

i) Visual spatial

ii) Speech sound

iii) Correlating difficulty–problem with similar words e.g pear, pair

iv) Auditory dyslexia

v) Visual auditary—use visual and audio simultaneously.

Characteristics

1) Problem with left, right direction of the print. Gets confused.

2) Speech irregularities

3) Eating words while reading

4) Confusion with similar sounding words e.g–accept and except

5) Attention problem–short attention span

6) Poor ability to name objects

7) Poor ability to categorize objects

Difficulty in carrying out more than one instruction at a time.

9) Confusion with letters that look alike e.g p&q, b&d.

10) Difficult in understanding preposition related to alphabet e.g in & out.

11) Inability to recognize & recall written symbols.

12) Reverse letter e.g b&d.

13) Lack of automation in reading.

14) Forgets to cross letters e.g little as lillte.

Once a twenty five years old lady  Nisha took part in a elocution competition. She was a good orator, speaker and spoke very well in the competition. Everyone present in the hall appreciated her speech. One by one all the competitors spoke and competition got over. One of the competitors Sonali, spoke out of context and she was not enough confident about her topic to face the judges.

As soon as the competition got over judges started their  work, counted the marks and were ready to  announce the result.

Then the judges went to the stage and announced the name of the winners. When Nisha found her name in second positionwith Sonali winnig, she refused to take her prize. She started arguing with the judges as Sonali, spoke out of the topic. The judges remained silent and did not utter a word.

The organiser of the competition started arguing with Nisha. She started weeping and said that she did not want any prize for that. Sonali took her prize and went away.

When Nisha came home weeping, her mother asked her about the incident. Her mother consoled her and said,”You have done your job well. If you deserve, you will win everything in your life. God gives the thing at the right time. So don’t repent. No one can take your belongings. Whatever is yours that comes automatically to you”.

Later on after six months, when there was a inter collegeite competition, Nisha got first prize and Sonali did not get anything, Nisha realised that her mother was right.

So success comes if you really deserve it.

प्रतियोगिता

कर्म करो आगे बढो
     यह जीवन का लक्ष
कभी ना करो फल की आशा
     वें लेते है सदा सही का पक्ष |

प्रतियोगिता तो एक साधन है
     जो देते है एक दिशा
प्रतिद्वंदिता करना हो तो
     स्वयं के साथ करना |

स्वयं को बनाओ इतने उंचे
     स्तर स्तर से आगे
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     कहाँ से कहाँ पहुंचतें |

(Pratiyogita) Competition is only with oneself…

Dear students These days I have written for my students. Now I will start writing short stories for all.These stories can motivate you,inspire you to do something in life.Most of the stories are from real life situation.Whenever I meet someone ,I listen to them carefully and try to find out the reason of their talk. Sometimes when I talk to my sons and husband I get some plot of my writing. When I travel by train or bus I watch the people carefully and pen it down.If you read my stories, please give your valuable comments . All the students over the world,I love you all

Mass media is a word which is very popular amongst all sections of the society. It is a medium or channel of communication which helps in transmitting messages.

1. Supplementary and complementary learning :- Mass media helps in better understanding.
   E.g (1) while teaching about Bhagat Singh and his protest we can show a movie to the students, related to his life and his contribution e.g. (2) while teaching Transport in Economics it can be shown by posters, Neon signs etc.
2. Teach syllabus with various electronic modes :- The teacher can make use of mass media to teach the actual syllabus.
   E.g. While teaching a chapter on Expansion of business, the movie “GURU” can be shown and then it can be related to the chapter while teaching.
3. Build Scientific Temper :- It enables people to overcome superstitions and develop scientific temper
4. Reflecting Current Events:- It enables students to know the current events
   E.g T.V programmes from NDTV Profit can give an outlook on current inflation
5. Group instruction:- Large number of people together take part in it .
   e.g Marathon or Beijing Olympics for economic growth.
6. Use of leisure time:- Relieving stress to be more active in the following day
7. Develop critical thinking
8. Variety of teaching