Teacher E-Journal Sept 2010 Volume 2 No 3

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An International E- ournal on Children

TEACHER Team for Enlightened Action for Child Health Education and R ehabilitation ABOUT TEACHER PRESIDENTS DESK EDITORIAL NEWS FEATURES ACTIVITIES/EVENTS

Presidents Desk

In the last quarter, TEACHER could identify certain unexplored areas for itself and also the areas which need to be strengthened. Thanks to our Research, Analysis and Training (RAT) wing in this regard, for giving its recommendations in this direction.

These unexplored areas include interactions with parents, governmental and private agencies related to child welfare, governing

bodies

that

frame,

regulate

and

implement

the

statutes pertaining to children. RAT unit further hinted the immediate need for conducting national level programs, seminars on the issues related to reforms in child education, health aspects and rehabilitation programs for the needy children.

However, as the term of the present executive is coming to an end by this year end, the new team has to be formed by November 14th 2010, and get prepared to take over from January 2011, keeping these challenges in view. This should not mean that our job has ended here. Prof. Sarma, the founder President has rightly cautioned us that our job in TEACHER never ends. It is only the shifting of responsibilities and taking up new responsibilities happily and voluntarily.

Every one of us must feel that this journey is never ending and at the same time is always enjoyable. We are all lucky to have got this opportunity of working for children.

I convey my heartiest greetings to one and all, on the occasion of TEACHER completing four years by this November 14th 2010. Let us all pledge to rededicate ourselves for the cause of children.

Dr. D. KRISHNA REDDY

Editorial

LET THEM ENJOY THE JOURNEY TO SCHOOL AND

BACK HOME

There have been plenty of rains this season, thanks to the heavy and wide spread down pour that prevailed throughout the season, almost in the entire country. Majority of the Indian farmers and the common people are happy that adequate water is available now for agriculture and drinking purposes. However, the fact that many areas were inundated during floods and caused lot

of inconvenience to the people in those areas, reveals our inability to manage the situations properly.

While the transportation of the common public in those flood affected areas almost came to a standstill, not to think of the school going children anymore. All such critical situations like floods, typhoons, earthquakes etc, apart, even during the normal situations; many school children do not have proper transportation facilities. If this is the condition in towns, cities and well developed villages, imagine what would be the situation in the remote rural areas.

Still the country witnesses many school children attending their schools several miles away from their villages, every day by walk. In many agency areas in the

southern India

and

many

hilly

regions

of

Northern

India,

these scenes are very common. Sporadic events of school children getting drowned in the open drains during rainy season, meeting with accidents on busy roads and in crowded auto rickshaws are reported every year in urban areas. The problems of rural school children are different. They are neither reported nor addressed properly.

Rural kids have to walk through the forests, climb the hills, cross the rivers along with their backpacks. Those children, who can afford, go by bicycles at times and those who cannot afford are pulled from school.

In many urban schools, particularly in the private sector, school buses do exist. But they meet the requirement of only 20 30% of the children. For the remaining it is often unaffordable. Even those school buses need utmost care in their maintenance and selection of drivers. Crowded school buses running into accidents are also not uncommon in Indian scenario.

Road safety of children in India is under gross negligence and a lot can be learnt from western countries in this regard, where childrens safety is given utmost priority and all the road users are well aware of the same. It is time for all of us to rethink and rebuild the safety barricades for our children that enable them enjoy their way to school and again back home.

Prof. P. SREENIVAS SARMA

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DID YOU KNOW? Teachers Ti s

HOW FAST DO WE MOVE?

Did you know that a good athlete can run 1.5 km in about 3 min 50 sec (the 1958 world record was 3 min 36.8 sec)? And any other ordinary person usually walks about 1.5 meters a second. So, if we reduce the athletes rate to a common denominator, we see that he covers seven meters every second. Thats very fast isnt it?

Of course these speeds are not absolutely comparable. Because, you can keep walking for hours at the rate of 5kmph, whereas, the runner will keep up his speed for only a short while. If we consider quick walk, infantry move at a speed of one third of the athletes, covering 2 m/sec, or 7kmph. But they can cover a much greater distance.

It will be very interesting to compare your normal walking pace with the speed of the proverbially slow snail or tortoise. The snail can cover 1.5 mm/sec, or 0.0054kmph which is exactly one thousand times less than your rate. The other classically slow animal, the tortoise, is not very much faster, doing usually 0.07kmph.

Nimble compared to the snail and the tortoise, you would find yourself greatly outraced when comparing your own motion with

other motions even not very fast onesthat we see all around us. True, you will easily outpace the current of most rivers in the plains and be a pretty good second to a moderate wind. But you will successfully vie with a fly, which can cover 5 m/sec, only if you don skis. You wont overtake a hare or a hunting dog even when riding a fast horse and you can rival the eagle only aboard a plane.

Table below shows list of speeds that we see in our daily life:

Still the machines man has invented make him second to

none for speed. Some time ago a passenger hydrofoil ship, capable of 6070kmph, was launched in the U.S.S.R. On land you can move faster than on water by riding trains or motor cars which can cover up to 200kmph and more. Modern aircraft greatly exceed even these speeds. It was not so long ago that aircraft designers sought to overcome the sound barrier, to attain speeds faster than that of sound, which is 330m/sec, or 1200kmpb. Today we have some small but very fast supersonic jet aircraft that can cover as much as 2000kmph.

The initial launching speed of the first Soviet sputnik was about 8 km/sec. Later Soviet space rockets exceeded the velocity to cover 11.2 km/sec at ground level.

Compiled by Sandeep Source: Physics for Entertainment

SPEED READING

Read lightly and flexibly. Know what you need. Slow down to fulfill your purpose, answering questions that are most important to you. Since very few words carry the meaning, speed up to pass redundant or useless information.

After grasping ideas from chapter introductions, ask yourself whether the book meets your needs. Ask yourself if it assumes too much or too little knowledge. If the book weren t ideal, would it be better to find a better one? Take 12 minutes to skim through the article to find the core idea. Know what is being expressed. Do you need more details? If not, find another article.

An easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know whom

the book is targeted at, and what it seeks to achieve. Chapter headings will give you an overall view of the structure of the subject.

In other words, identify your purpose. Once you know this, you can examine the text to see whether it is going to move you towards this goal.

Getting the Main Idea:

Getting the main idea in reading is central to effective studying. You must learn what the author s central idea is, and understand it in your own way. Every paragraph contains a main idea. Main ideas are perfect for outlining textbooks. Make it a habit to find the main idea in each paragraph you read.

Extracting Important Details:

Extracting important details mean that you locate in your reading, the main and most significant ideas. There is usually one important detail associated with every main idea. The more important details you can identify, the easier it will be to review for examinations because you have made a link between an idea and information that supports it.

The more links you can make between details and ideas, as well as ideas themselves, the more powerful will be the efforts of your study. The first things to ask you are:

Why you are reading the text? Are you reading with a purpose or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after reading it?

Sampath .L


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Students Art work


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FEATURE Great Personalities

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Born: July 18th , 1918 ) Father: Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa

Known popularly as Madiba in South Africa, served as the first South African president to be

elected in a fully representative democratic election. He was an anti apartheid activist and the leader of armed wing of African National Congress (ANC). He was arrested and imprisoned for 27 years and spent mostly in Robben Island during this period. Following his release from prison on 11th February 1990, he led his party to victory and served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He received more than 250 awards over four decades, including the 1993 Nobel Peace prize.

Mandela was born in Mvezo, a small village located in the district of Umtata, the Transkei capital. He belongs to a cadet branch of the Thembu Dynasty, which reigns in the Transkeian territories of South Africas Cape Province. Mandelas father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa served as Chief of the town of Mvezo. He had four wives and Mandela was born to his third wife, Nosekein Fanny.

Mandela spent much of his childhood in her homestead. His given name Rolihlahla means to pull a branch of a tree or more colloquially trouble maker. He became the first member of his family to attend a school, where his teacher Miss. Mdingane gave him the English name Nelson. At the age of nine, he lost his father.

Mandela completed his Junior certificate in two years, instead of the usual three. At nineteen, he took interest in boxing and running at the school. While in prison, he studied for a Bachelor of Law from the University of London External Programme. He completed his B.A. degree at the University of South Africa, via correspondence.

Mandela has married three times, fathered six children, has twenty grand children and a growing number of great grand children. The Nelson Mandela Invitational Charity golf tournament,

hosted by

Gary

Player,

is

South

Africas

most

successful

charitable

sports gathering and benefits various childrenss causes around the world.

Source: Wikipedia

Mother Teresa: (26th Aug 1910 5th Sept 1997) Parents: Nikoll and Drana Bojaxhiu

Born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Meaning Rosebud in Albanian), she was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian Citizenship, and founded the missionaries of charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charitys expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and Indias highest Civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for the humanitarian work.

She was born as the youngest in her family, in Uskub, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, capital of the Republic of Macedonia). Agnes arrived in India in 1929, after learning English in Ireland, to teach the school children of India. She began her novitiate in Darjeeling, near the Himalayan mountains. On 24th May 1931, she took her first religious vow and chose the name of Teresa, the patron saint of missionaries. She took her solemn vows on 14th May 1937, while serving as a teacher in a school in Eastern Calcutta.

Although she enjoyed teaching at the school, she was increasingly disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta and by the Bengal famine of 1943, which brought misery and death to the city.

On 10th September, 1946, Teresa experienced what she described as The Call within the Call, while traveling to the Loreto Convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948, replacing her traditional Loreto habit with a simple white Cotton Sari decorated with a blue border, adopted Indian Citizenship, and ventured into the slums.

Lata Mangeshkar (Born: 28th September, 1929)

Father: Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar Mother: Shudhhamati

Born as the eldest child, in a Marathi family in Sikh Mohalla, Indore, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, she was named Hridaya at her birth. She was later named as Lata, after a female character, Latika, in one of her fathers play Bhaw Bandhan.

Mageshkar took her first music lessons from her father at the age of five. After she lost him at the age of 13, Master Vinayak, a friend of her father, helped her start her career as a singer and actress. After Vinayaks death in 1948, she went on to sing under several music directors. Since then she has recorded songs for over a Thousand Bollywood movies, and has sung songs in over thirty six regional Indian and foreign languages. It is estimated that between 1948 and 1987, she has sung over 30,000 songs.

Lata has won several awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan (1969), Padma Vibhushan (1999), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1989) and the prestigious Bharat Ratna in 2001. She has composed music for the first time in 1955 for a movie Ram Ram Pavhane, and later for four other movies in Marathi. She also produced one movie in Marathi and four in Hindi. She sang most of her songs for renowned music director duo Laxmi Kanth Pyare Lal.

Source: Wikipedia

Compiled By: Sampath

What do they say? Quotes from the above personalities

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Nelson Mandela

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there

can be no more hurt, only more love. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we

belong to each other. The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being

unloved. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across

the waters to create many ripples. A life not lived for others is not a life. If you can t feed a hundred people, feed just one.

Mother Teresa


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Ancient Indian MathematicsMath Magic

Puzzles to Puzzle You

STEP 1

(Contd..)

Note that we have started from the central column of the first row. Starting from other squares is also possible, but then only the row and column sums will be identical and result in a magic sum,

whereas

the

diagonal

sums

will

differ.

The

result

will

thus

be

a

semimagic square and not a true magic square. Moving in directions other than north east can also result in magic squares.

Similarly, we can use the same technique for higher order squares as well i.e. 5x5, 7x7, 9x9 and so on. But this technique can be used only for Odd Order squares.

Few Tips: The Middle Number is always in the diagonal bottom left to

top right. The Last Number is always opposite the number 1 in an

outside column or row.

NOTE: There is a different technique for the magic squares of even numbered orders. This, we will discuss in later articles.

For now here is a partial give away of 5 X 5 order. You can try and fill the rest of the box:

1 8

5 7

4 6

10 12 3

11 2 9

MAGIC SQUARE

1

A magic square of order n is an arrangement of n^2 numbers, usually distinct integers, in a square, such that the n numbers in all rows, all columns, and both diagonals sum to the same constant. A normal magic square contains the integers from 1 to n^2. Normal magic squares exist for all orders n 1 except n = 2, although the case n = 1 is trivial, consisting of a single cell containing the number 1. The smallest nontrivial case is of order 3.

The constant sum in every row, column and diagonal is called the magic constant or magic sum, M. The magic constant of a normal magic square depends only on n and has the value

[n*(n^2 + 1)/ 2] For normal magic squares of order n = 3, 4, 5..., the magic constants are: 15, 34, 65, 111, 175, 260...

Method for constructing a magic square of odd order

Starting from the central column of the first row with the number 1, the fundamental movement for filling the squares is one step up and then right, one step at a time. If a filled square is encountered, one moves vertically down one square instead, then continuing as before. When a move would leave the square, it is wrapped around to the last row or first column, respectively.

STEP 2

1

2

STEP 3

1

3

2

STEP 4 1

3

4 2

STEP 5

1

3 5

4 2

STEP 6

1 6

3 5

4 2

STEP 7

1 6

3 5 7

4 2

STEP 88 1 6

3 5 7

4 2

STEP 9 8 1 6

3 5 7

4 9 2

ANSWER to June 2010 issue puzzle:

June 2010 issue puzzle: A man bought two machines for his workshop but decides to sell them since they did not serve his purpose. He sold them each for Rs. 600 making a loss of 20% on one of them and a profit of 20% on the other. Did he lose or gain in the transaction? And, how much did each machine cost him?

SOLUTION:

He sold one for Rs. 600 losing 20% on this transaction. So, he must have paid Rs. 750 for that machine and since he made 20% profit on the other machine, he must have bought it for Rs. 500. Therefore, his total loss is Rs. 50.

September 2010 Issue Puzzle (The Mysterious Square): In the picture below, a blank white square appears when we rearrange the pieces of the upper triangle to form the lower triangle. Note that the pieces

in both pictures are identical. Can you explain the origin of the square? Or as to why there is an extra block even though they are identical?

Compiled By: TEJASWINI MANOGNA


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Planned Future Activities

In the near future:

State level events

List of Activities:

A team of 3 has visited the Hymavathi High School in Amberpet, Hyderbabad for an interactive session with the students and teachers.

A

training

programme

on

modules

such

as

motivation,

inculcating

creativity, personality development etc., has been conducted on the Teachers Day (Sept 5th 2010) for the teachers of various schools from Hyderabad and RR districts.

GURU PREETHAM

A program on Career Guidance by Sri. S. JayaPrakash Narayana in October at Devarkonda.

A program in November 2010 by Sri. P. Sreenivas Sarma in

Hyderabad.

A program in December 2010 at Nizamabad by Sri. Lingam.

DR. D. KRISHNA REDDY & SRI S. S. GIRI

International Organizations /Events

Play & Literacy (8 to 10 Nov 10, 9am to 5pm, Hong Kong)(http://www.sanguineconsulting.com/WorkshopsNew/playliteracyHK.html ) The research is only beginning to show the immense importance that the first 8 years have in determining childrens future success in many areas particularly in literacy. Play and Literacy is a program specifically designed for people who work with children, 0 through age 8, to improve the literacy environment of and promote literacy learning for children in early childhood.

1st International Conference Art, Illustration and Visual

Culture in Infant and Primary Education: construction of

identities (Location: Centro Cultural CajaGranada Memoria de

Andaluca Granada (Spain) Date: November 3rd 6th, 2010) (http://www.congresoarteilustracion.org/presentacion.php?lang=en) The Conference intends to analyse the theoretical and practical aspects of using Art in general and Contemporary Art in particular, Illustration and Literature (as an accompaniment of illustration) in Infant and Primary Education, highlighting their implications on the construction of the cultural identity of the children of contemporary society.

ANEESH BETHI

Looking after children (LAC) Youth in mind (Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 25 to 27 October 2010)

(http://www.lookingafterchildren.ca )

The framework for this approach identifies the developmental

needs of each child, between 0 and 18 years old. It specifies

the skills that the parents must develop in order to meet these

needs and the different family and environmental factors that

influence the outcome.

Children and Adolescents with Learning and Behavioral

Difficulties. (Date: October 23, 2010) Location:

Massachusetts General Hospital, The Starr Center, Charles

River Plaza, 185 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA (http://mghcme.org/events/details/?eventid=329 )

Approximately 20 percent of school aged children are referred for psychological or neuropsychological evaluations. The vast majority of these children meet criteria for learning disabilities or disruptive behavior disorders and many of these children will meet criteria for more than one disorder at any given time. This program is designed to give child and adolescent clinicians a better knowledge base with which to address these issues.
http://www.sanguineconsulting.com/WorkshopsNew/playliteracyHK.htmlhttp://www.sanguineconsulting.com/WorkshopsNew/playliteracyHK.htmlhttp://www.congresoarteilustracion.org/presentacion.php?lang=enhttp://www.congresoarteilustracion.org/presentacion.php?lang=enhttp://www.lookingafterchildren.ca/http://mghcme.org/events/details/?eventid=329http://www.congresoarteilustracion.org/presentacion.php?lang=enhttp://www.congresoarteilustracion.org/presentacion.php?lang=enhttp://www.sanguineconsulting.com/WorkshopsNew/playliteracyHK.htmlhttp://www.sanguineconsulting.com/WorkshopsNew/playliteracyHK.htmlhttp://mghcme.org/events/details/?eventid=329http://www.lookingafterchildren.ca/


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Treasurers Re ort Cartoon Corner

New members in the last quarter: (June September):

Patron: Dr. P.Upender goud

Life member: Sri. Mahesh kumar

Members:

Sri. Harsha

Vardhan

Dr.Thirumal Reddy

The income in the last quarter: Rs. 43,103 /

The expenditure in the last quarter: Rs. 5,617 /

SAMUDRALA JAYAPRAKASH NARAYANA

Click here for recent Treasurers report

(If Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was present in the present political scenario in India, he would have felt this way):

Leave me alone. I need to run away from politics. It looks like the Indian Democracy has got an entirely new definition these days. It seems to be: For the Politicians, Of the Politicians and By the Politicians

Art & Compilation by Gokul Koundinya

QUOTABLE QUOTES SUDOKU CORNER

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe that they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter Scott

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just

as bad. Bob Edwards

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

SUDOKU SEPTEMBER 2010

2 1 9 7

5 1 6

3 8 7 6

6 2 3 4 7 8

7 8

7 8 5 6 1 3

5 1 2 8

7 2 1

2 9 6 7

You must be familiar with Sudoku. For first timers, the objective is to insert the numbers 1 through 9 in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and each 3x3 box must contain each digit only once.

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