Teachers Diary: Learning through Mistakes The Mechanical-Tamil medium students were the member of the audience.

They appeared red and black. Consequently, Red is the sign of jeopardy and black is the sign of scrounge. How discouraging it would have been in the early hours of the day! This was the literal reaction given to English classes. Expecting such retort, I prepared the previous night. How to teach students who find English as a hard-hitting subject to learn? At the outset, I determined to provide evidence that English is not a subject to study but a language to converse. Subsequently, I strongly-willed to make them apprehend the powerful tool-Tamil which they posses in learning the target language, English. Good morning students! Pick a paper and pen. Start writing an essay on any of these titles: My favorite school life/ game. The students were completely perplexed. They might have thought that I am comparable to their English school teacher. Few of the students were looking each other, a section of students were asking pen and paper to their neighbors, another party of students were hard to deal with, didnt show much reaction to my words. I started looking into their eyes immediately. Shortly they were ready to write the essay. Within 10 minutes you have to complete atleast 5 sentences under this title! Everyone started writing immediately. Handfuls of the students were not result oriented. They acted as if they were serious. What is your good name? The student answered, Mohan raj. Mohan Raj! What is your father name? Dhanush. This is not the right way to answer. You have to frame it into a sentence. I will help you. My fathers name is Dhanush.

Ok, sit down. Thanks for your participation! This is how my teaching is going to be. You learners no need to worry about the mistakes which you make. Speak out or write down boldly, I am here to correct it. Similarly do not hesitate to write this essay. Start writing it boldly. You have to attempt mistakes that to be correct by me or teachers. Learning through mistakes will make you an ever non-attempter of repetitive mistakes.