Glorious Past

    Sometimes a very intense relationship between the parents and the son or daughter can be so effective. The focus on good foundations and ethics can help out the youngster to acquire a weapon for lifetime.
    The mother for example can be so faithful to start helping her youngster from since he or she is in the womb. She can talk to this small entity and try to plead for him/her to be somehow perfect. She can be beside him/her amending the fault actions and build up the love for both knowledge and good manners. If these are installed at early ages from three or even two years, this can be kept on as long as there is a healthy a relationship between them, where the son/daughter can express his ideas, cares and ambition. The mother can help the youngster to achieve some of his/her goals and leave him/her to chase them afterwards.
     Teachers then at very minor instances can have less stress to deal with such healthy students, they can focus more and more onto getting to the next levels of pure knowledge and they don't even have to deal with th the psychological deprivations.
    Such types of students first and at early stages of mental development need care from the parents and then from the teachers, and then they will excell. The son can even skip classses and get to get to advanced ones to meet with the high level of knowledge he/she had gotten to.
   He/She can even at later stages can be able and get the blessing of innovations in sergical realms and get to spread a mainstream of creations.
    And this is no moshy talk or a cliche, this is out of a personal story of parents  raising a whole extended family of excelling daughters and sons. That was due to the profound belief in God and a genuine faith in their youngsters. Discipline and good behaviour and carving them at early stages can be a good way to help this pure soul to get to a good education. And this was also put into lots of tests when most of these brilliant minds had to migrate into long distances, new worlds and new culture. He/She was able to fully integrate into a new society and excell as well in it. This youngster can survive for thirty two years or twenty on his/her own and still stick to the pure basic beliefs of his/her parents. Though he/she might not have the oppurtunity of seeing his/her parents for a good deal of time, still he/she can have an amazing amount of love and appreciation to the ones who stood by him/her.
 

Classroom Management!!!

  Most teacher tend to say and repeat to ''teachers to be'' or to new teachers,...that the most important aspect of the teacher role in class is to manage a good environment inside the class. For no matter what the teacher has inside his slieve of endless knowledge and information, all of that will fade away in a glance, if and only if the students are not in a position of some attention and having the ability to listen, share, write or any other performance or act.
   The teacher must lay out solid rules for the students to follow and try not to break, once a rule is broken a reflexive will be implimented, that the students can grasp as a way of preventing them from further breaking rules and abiding to them.
   This does necessitates that such actions are easy to do or they cruel to the students. Both the teacher and the students should know their grounds and try to abide to their own space that true education lets to be. Working out the rules can be painful to establish at the beginning of the educational year, but both students and teachers can work it and get to flow with it.
    Examples on such rules are like: doing a homework on time, after understanding the reasons behind not doing such an assignment the teacher can give the student extra work to do, so that next time the student would do it on time and perfectly.
  This can be so helpful in class and to lay out a very clear way of rocking and rolling in the educational year.

Extra Work

   Sometimes participating in a school's play or dance or talent show may trigger the students to be more creative and love to be more affective in class as well as outside. The student may tend to show more skills than any other time, and the the teacher may get to see more sides of the student more than ever before.

A Small Quest

     There are a lot of sayings about how to teach, what to teach, when and why....But one can sense that in spite of everything that is being published and spread out into the oblivious world some cases need more and more work and thus they need even more personal blending between methods. So in order to deal with students one must at some points get in touch with the inner self and sense in order to solve behavioural or achievement problems. This means that the teacher must be equipped with all the information and knowledge he/she can grasp and get hold of.
     In older days, teaching was simple our fathers and grandfathers used to get learning under the shade of the tree, the teacher was the source of everything and he was to be feared and was surrounded by an Ora of respect and great affection. Even the parents of the small students were weak against the power of the teacher he was bestowed with. The teacher gave the information to the students in a more simple way maybe even without materials to help the students to get some points of the lesson. The teacher a lot of pressure on the students, for instance the Lebanese countryside from about eighty years and more and as my father and grandparents say that teaching was with a more blessing, though they didn't get to learn such complexed subjects and course materials, but they had the total respect and surrender to the teacher.
      At that time they used to bring with them their own source of heat to maintain some kind of minimal survival while they were educated. They got with them a small piece of wood, if not, a small dry cob of corn would do the trick and aid the young student onto learning on a cold hard day of school. They also had maybe an old used book inside a hand made bag.
       The teacher was usually either a Shaikh or a priest, and he was at many times directing knowledge into the religious side. The teacher said everything in his heart to the students including the information that might make the student ponder and get a grudge at learning. But it was thought to be done for the sake of the child.
      But it must be noted that some students had the choice to drop out school and head to continue the family business or to help the father at planting or farming or getting married....That was directly related to the gender of the students and the motives of the parents.
       So most of the students and usually the males dropped out to continue with ''more important things in life'', they had to help out their fathers and raise their other brothers and sisters as the families were bigger in those years.
         Learning was focused on elementary classes and the students got the skills of reading and writing to some extent.
         Girls were luckier a bit, they had the chance to study more, if their parents had the will and money and they did not get married yet. But still classes were small, for the number of students and the size of the building as well.
        And if someone chooses to get the higher college degrees, of course he would be famous in the village, but he will find lots of obstacles in order to earn such a prestigious college degree as a B.A..This student might face war and killings at some years, if one may go back to the Lebanese history of the French conflict or the economical or the civil war....The student could not stay near the family, he had to travel to the city to pursue a degree. And all branches were available he had to be satisfied with what was available or either he had to travel abroad. Most of the students who chased such a future seemed to be males.
          Their parents deprived themselves from lots of things if they had to help in the tuition, if their child did not have a scholarship. Lots of people, as it was said were so unlucky that they had to sell pieces of land for their children to go abroad and get a doctorate maybe. They seemed to struggle to the bones in order to mold out a bright future.
         Such a humble briefing of  real stories that many of us had just heard make one think and force one to say that we are in a blessing, everything has changed completely, all can have the blessing of learning no matter who. The teacher has changed and his/her role importance also the students and the schools. Everything serves the student who is the centre of ''the solar system''.
         But a very shy wish may come out that the ethics and the morals of the past years should be preserved because they had the good and the purity which no one must loose, a teacher or a student. We must hold it well and let it live throughout the years.

The Lighthouse

  Each and every student is a world by himself or herself, and it is for the teacher to evaluate this precious jewel which to some people makes up their whole lives, they lighten their lives. Infact the students and especially elementary students are the lighthouse and the light of the class, without them nothing has meaning. But this copmlicates things a bit, for this compiles pressure on the teacher, for he or she must strive to be so close to the students and back them up as soon as they need it. So the teacher only hopes to be able to fullfill the needs of each one of them.

 Every day is a new day for teaching and learning.

Students

  Playing and learning and blending them together can be so effective in teaching, so the teacher must always add new ways in class to spice up the learning. Playing with a small ball inside the class with the students can be so effective. The students will be happy to grab the ball as well as to answer comprehension questions.