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Little can be achieved in an educational institution without laying emphasis on teacher quality. It is the soul stirring teacher with professional dedication who can inspire the pupils. In India , we have excellent teaching force and our teachers are sought after worldwide. Such claim may not stop us from developing further a resolve which is the beginning of an ideal teacher.

However, reality lies elsewhere. The general impression is school teaching in India is very much a teacher centered approach including in award winning schools run by internationally acclaimed veterans. The pressure on the teacher to “produce results” is a common phenomena . Entitled to no so enviable salaries unlike their counterparts in the service industry, teachers’ life is a constant emotional and financial challenge. With multiple tasks to be carried out, responsibilities to shoulder and accountability to the administrators their occupation creates vulnerability and teaching offers little romance to job aspirants.
 
Inquiry based learning:
 
To develop new insights into teaching strategies, Paulo Freire referred to his method of teaching adults as "critical pedagogy" which aims to provide the intellectual autonomy of the students to “challenge domination”, . It is to encourage students to develop their thinking skills and the teacher to act as a smart facilitator. It is meant to enhance the
perceptive power of the student by a profound understanding of the world so that he or she is ready and qualified to question the social and political misconceptions. With an emergence of such qualitative student generation, schools in India can be the major contributor to growth and prosperity.

 

Chennaipage echoes the voice of a Freire and a John Dewey for the cause of engaging the young learners in the pursuit of independent thinking and experiential learning.

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Your IELTS Essay:
Plan your essay as an architect plans a house. He visualizes the complete house with everything in place.  If he plans a 3 bed room house there is an entrance which leads to 3 bedrooms each having an access to the living room and with a kitchen to take care of the food preparation and other rooms for specific needs of the inhabitants and with an exit leading outdoor.  Now let us take this analogy while writing an essay.
What is critical to your writing is a complete idea. It means you have the various components which will make sense to your theme. In simple terms you are convinced of what you are going to write about without any doubts. For example, if you are writing about Globalization as an unavoidable process for economic survival of a country, you strongly trust it is the key to a country’s financial strength. You have reasons to explain and support your stance and you can go ahead and argue that Globalization is necessary for a country’s   welfare.  Well…. Remember you should have at least 3 reasons to defend your argument. So your main theme that Globalization is a positive trend is the whole plan of your Essay.
 
Now let us move on closer to the architect’s plan. He plans an entrance to the house in front facing the street. Likewise you must also lead your readers to your essay without leaving them to guess how they should enter your essay.  It does not mean you have to come out into the street and tell them where the entrance is. If you would write “I am going to write about …” it means you are giving your readers bit of a warning or leaving some suspense. Instead, just open the door when you hear the knock. Remember a thoughtful architect plans a small passageway leading to the living room. 
 
In a time constrained 300 word limit essay you too should restrict your introductory paragraph to possibly 50 words length. No architect would waste the entrance to a small house on a spacious front. Remember  your IELTS essays are not meant to be written for the whole day.Within 45 minutes all your writing and critical thinking skills are on test.
Paying due attention to this aspect of brevity, your introduction to the topic should suggest to the reader that that they can have a glimpse of what your essay would convey just like a visitor to the house would be able to size up the area of the house from the little passage you
make in front. One of the strategies, I have found very useful is to start with the Thesis Statement. The Thesis Statement is the American concept in writing. It “tells the reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter under discussion. It is a road map for the paper; in other words, it tells the reader what to expect from the rest of the paper.”
 
To go directly into how a thesis statement is written, let us go back to our topic of Globalization.  I said you must have at least three reasons to argue for it. Your thesis statement can be written as “Globalization is the key to the economic integration of the world by which member nations 1 gain access to the international trading community, 2 keep pace with the speed and velocity of social changes and 3provide dramatic changes in personal life style of the individual.”  You have already stated three strong reasons why Globalization is an important social theory.

The three reasons are like the basis of planning your three bedrooms in the proposed house. Having done with your introduction you are now planning the body of the essay neatly divided into three paragraphs. Shall we say as the three bedrooms in the plan?  One of the important points you can hardly ignore is the access to each room from the living room.  It is a simple wooden door which opens into the room.  It makes the house connected without any gap or open space. Similarly in your essay, your paragraphs are connected to the main theme with a simple turn of phrase called transitional phrase. Examples of transitional phrases are “in the second place, in addition to, moreover. “ It gives a logical coherence to your theme.

We were talking about a 3 bed room plan. Each bedroom has considerable space to move around. Your paragraphs also must have considerable length, probably 80 words each. They have the same purpose but are in different directions. Your paragraphs should have the same purpose of supporting your argument from three different angles. Each paragraph should start with a topic sentence to convey the essential idea of the whole paragraph.  Let us trace back our theme.
We had already decided to defend Globalization as a major economic necessity for nations to survive.  In the first paragraph you had indicated the advantage of gaining access to the international trading community. Now it’s the time to build on that. You have to lay out your points of reference. You have to choose specific words which would succinctly add strength to your argument. 

For example to participate in international trading each member nation should  adopt  “multilateralism” avoiding “protectionism” keeping in mind the values of  “free market economy “ so that countries become “borderless’  by improving “resource allocation” .   Though it is recommended to use specific jargon, they should not be all packed in a single sentence which would mess up your fine attempt. Each jargon demands some explanation and calls for justification.  Multilateralism means the understanding among countries to share common interest by avoiding conflict. Protectionism is a country’s resistance to mutual trading practices.

It can increase import tariff, control imports   and discourage free trade.  “Free Market Economy” is a system which allows free trading practices between buyers and sellers without government control. “Borderless” in terms of Globalization is the rapid disappearing of economic barriers and the free flow of money across the countries.  By resource allocation it is meant the distribution of resources among rival groups of people or programs. By using jargon in the right contexts, your essay acquires new heights of professionalism and scholarship.
 
Having dealt with sufficient length in each paragraph, it is now time to close the essay. It is again very much like the narrow passageway with an exit in your house. Not much space is provided here as none would sit around and spend time. Likewise, your concluding paragraph should be written in limited length carefully winding up the topic with a certain tone you started. There is no need for a ceremonial conclusion such as “I am going to conclude my essay”.