RESOURCE PERSON:
Dr. T.O.Poulose
Associate Professor & Head , Dept. of Social work
Rajagiri School of Social Work
Profile: visit http://rcss.rajagiri.edu/faculty/details/29
A SUMMARY OF THE SPEECH OF DR. T.O. POULOSE
Discussion on Personal, Family and Professional realms
Five noble professions: Teaching, Medicine, Law, Engineering and Preaching
Teaching: Noblest of all professions
Personal
Teachers are like tanks and students are like taps Dr. Johnson
Look not through the window but look into a mirror to know yourself and others
Teachers are highly capable of character formation
By 18-20, the character will be completely moulded
Increase of tolerance level
Three vices: misuse of mobiles and digital world, illicit relations, and drinking
Distinctions between how to make an living and how to live
Need to observe children in informal situations
How to live happily is important
If you wait to be happy you can never be happy but to be really happy seize the opportunity and be happy now and try to make others happy
Attitude is everything
Success depends on developing the right attitude
Optimism can conquer anything
4 traits of negative people are: criticism, blame/accusation, complaints, and dissatisfied appearance
Teachers should have a magnificent presence, dominating presence but most importantly a comforting presence
Fear creates block; remember every child is gifted and unique
Institutional point of view
Deviation from objective
Conflict between needs and goals
One should be Contributing personnel, Consultant counselor, and Knowledge worker
Ask always for Main Objective (and defend not with excuses but with repeatedly saying I am sorry!!)
When we grow the institution grows and if we become stagnant, the institution also gets stagnant
Professional Point of View
The key areas are authenticity, productivity, connectivity and possiblity
Types of learning: listening and learning, seeing and learning, doing and learning, interacting and learning
The discussion on able and willing; unable and willing; able but unwilling; unable and unwilling people
Hence leadership necessitates delegation, participatory, directing, and commanding styles
Productivity is potential minus interferences
Three personal qualities: friendliness, frankness, and transparency
The question is not how many seeds are there in fruit but how many fruits are there in a seed!
The largest room in the world is the room for improvement
Three types of teachers: Efficient, Impressive and Effective teacher
Never give up!
Never argue!
Never get hooked up by other people's words, behaviour and emotions!
Adjust your pace along with your partners (with those whom you live with and those you work with and teach)!
What is important is for you is not the matter but the manner in which it is said/done
