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Welcome! Thanks for visiting my website.I am Charlotte Simpson.I lecture at the Department of Education ,St Xavier's
College Kolkata.I am also visiting lecturer at the Dept of Education ,Jadavpur University, School of Language Management ,National
Council Of Education Bengal as well as the School of Social Work and Community Service ,National Council Of Bengal.I conduct
classes at the Summer School at the Association for the Cultivation of Science.I thoroughly enjoy my work..infact every moment
of it.I consider teaching as a very big privilege and always remind myself of the fact that with every honour comes a responsibility
and a duty to perform conscientiously, diligently and sincerely.In my position as a teacher I feel that i and many others
like me are responsible for the creation of a generation of socially conscious , committed students who are imbued
with the zeal for social reconstruction.I belong to a small very closely knit family and I feel truly blessed to have
very loving parents and a wonderful sister.My parents have been a great inspiration for both my sister and myself.We were
particularly close to our uncles and aunts who were like second parents to us. During our growing up years we would be aware
of the many sacrifices our parents made for us and the wonderful lessons of love that we would get daily from their positive
rolemodelling .Through them we received our first lessons of what it meant to give without counting the cost however difficult
it may have been at times.Through their interaction with us we were given a glimpse of the true essence of unconditional love.We
learnt from our family to be grateful and thankful for the many blessings that we were bestowed with. Our mother encouraged
us to rejoice in what we had rather than be sad about what we did not have .It was she who helped us orient our entire worldview
around what was positive and beautiful rather than focus on the not so happy side of life.I remember once while i was in school
having to write an essay on the person who i admired most ........Yes of course i wrote pages and pages about my mother .
The words simply flowed and flowed till i had to finally stop when the bell rang.....and i was left feeling that i could have
written so much more about the wonderful person that she was .
I have a whole lot of hobbies with which i spend quite a bit of time. I love reading.I read books ranging from novels,
thrillers,fiction etc. My favourites are books on Personality Development, Self Awareness etc.I love singing and listening
to music .I write poems, articles, short stories etc.Of course i love working on the computer , learning about new application
packages, navigating and exploring new areas of knowledge on the net.I thoroughly enjoy cyber surfing especially looking
for new books, literature on the topics of my interest. I find cyber surfing a very important supplement to my classroom lectures.
We live in a globalized world where we continue to experience a knowledge explosion and an information revolution. I consider
our generation as rather privileged because we have access to so much of useful educational technology that can make
the teaching learning in our class room meaningful and enjoyable for our students.I believe firmly in the saying that "when
we stop learning we stop living" .Education truly is a continuous , never ending process .
The subjects that I lecture on are as diverse as my interests. I deliver lectures in the area of Philosophy of Education,
Psychology of Education, Educational Technology,Educational Management, Finance and Planning of Education,Mental Measurement
, Educational and Psychological Statistics and Evaluation, Guidance and Counselling,Social Education and Non formal Education.I
also give lectures on the method of teaching mathematics, Distance Education at the Indira Gandhi National open University
which has its centre at St Xavier's College and where i hold the position of Academic Counsellor.I enjoy the exposure that
i get to preservice teachers , inservice and deputed teachers. I continue to learn and gain from my teaching experience. It
helps me to tap areas of knowlegde through active participation in the teaching- learning process.My students are God's
gift to me and i am committed to making their experience a truly educative one where they will develop new knowlege, form
the right attitudes and be equipped with the appropriate skills. " Education is the missing link".I firmly uphold the view
that Value Based Education is the KEY to the future.
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