Aparna Rana

While surfing on some social site I came across an interesting post related to education and evaluation of human. Somewhere it hit my thoughts and made me think and write. We have reached a new height, everyday a stone is turned and a new milestone is being set. We have reached the moon, stars are not far, the galaxy is neighbour to us. These all become possible when education became inevitable part of our lives.  And then came COVID... lives changed, scenario changed, perspectives changed, working pattern changed. All the sectors got affected in different ways. But there is one sector that changed the whole scenario and way of looking at the problems too.  We were busy in making our lives easy, and a day arrived when that invention started taking our lives to a new height. Let's take a ride down to the memory lane.. the era when thumb was used to do official works. Then a systematic civilization arrived and we started using pen.. and then using a pen became the mark of being ...

 "Teaching is a beautiful way of learning..." We all complain, we all have issues, problems, difficulties, pain and what not. And respecting our this tendency God has given us an opportunity as COVID, now we can complain anytime for everything and most importantly without feeling bad or guilty about our behavior. I agree we have to maintain social distancing, we have follow certain norms to be safe. And undoubtedly this is affecting our health on either side. Physically we are comparatively less active, in result there is lethargy, weight gain, and it has a simultaneous effect on mental health as low mood, restlessness, lack of interest etc. Many of us are experiencing lacuna or ups and downs in our professional life also. Every profession has different struggle.  In my case, even during this time frame we have to continue teaching as it is. So, as a teacher I learned how to use virtual mode for teaching, trust me it was difficult but not impossible. Another struggle that I h...