[Assam] My Local News: International Educators; Girls Go Tech

Wed Feb 7 15:22:32 EST 2007

God works in mysterious ways. I acheived in 4 months what I was expecting to achieve in 2 years -- i.e. go over US science and math high school curriculum . To some extent US Immigration officials are to be credited. They sent me to Canada for a month (Sep 2006) - the time I was supposed to start with new academic session. 

  So when I came back after a memorable Canada visit I had few students left for me. Other tutors had been hired and assigned to the regular students. Thanks to God's mercy I was allowed to continue till the end of the first semester (ending Jan 2007). Since I had lot more time on hand and was out "on a limb and prayer" - and with excellent colleagues to help learn-- I went over math and science curriculum quick and got college credit (worth one semester at college) thru CLEP at same time.

  Thanks to God's grace I got the new  job on my first interview and test as well. I am holding the organization's name -after burning my fingers after interviewing in Nov 2005 for a position. News travel fast over the net!!

  If anyone in school education can connect u r welcome.

  Umesh

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
    I couldn't have written it all today. Got a new job thanks to a relative (perhaps) of UN chief.

  Umesh

umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
    Hi,

  Here is something about where I work www.potomactutors.com . It is a very international environment with collleagues representing all parts of the globe and faiths. In a team of about ten staff members (incl part time) we have Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews,  Buddhists and atheists (perhaps) and people originating from Scotland  , Israel (?), Mali, Ethiopia, Italy , India, Vietnam, Korea etc. 

  They include graduates of John Hopkins Univ. (non-fiction writing - good info on US literature) , Cornell, Univ of Maryland - a Fullbright scholar in mech. and electronics engg. (from Mali who came on sports schol to play college basketball in US and turned into a A grade scholar - still hopes to lead Mali into Olympics), myself, graduate of Canadian univ, aeronautical engineer, law graduate  etc.

  Being a small establishment I get to see how each individual works and how the educational setup is managed day-to-day. In a larger establishment I would be kept away in a staff room and never see other aspects of the educational sphere.

  Also, in a regular school teacher almost never seek or help other teachers in clarifying subject related doubts --here we learn and teach each other -- we are expected to!! -- rather than teach wrong stuff to the students. I have learnt a lot from many of my colleagues like this -esp in science and math. With their help I have cleared all these CLEP math exams for college credit and plan to take the chemistry one next week.

  Students teach you a lot - and one-to-one tutoring (a new concept to me) really puts you right in front of ONE student - and you HAVE to find solution to his/her doubts/confusions/lack of interest. In the process you clear your own misconceptions about the subject by reading ahead, asking colleagues etc.

  Surprisingly, the students also represent the upper crust of the society (and very few are landed aristocracy of Paris Hilton or Johnson & Johnson heir variety [school dropouts] - mostly are children of technocrats -who expect their wards to excel in science and math). Also quite a few ambassadors, congressmen , CEOs of top tech US MNCs companies in US stay here (incl Indians). A very international group . The schools here give the students freedom to go right ahead in studies and study well beyond the required curriculum and well into college level physics and math. I wonder how they afford to hire teachers who focus separately on a small group of gifted students - besides the main group.

  More later.

  Any comments?

  Umesh
  PS: World's top tech companies are located here -like HQ of Lockheed Martin -world biggest defense company - maker of F 16 planes etc.

  Here is a website I saw on Yahoo Mail: www.girlsgotech.org for pre-teen girls interest in science education

Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, 
(Washington D.C. Metro Region)
MD 20740 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
website: www.gse.harvard.edu/iep     
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5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, 
(Washington D.C. Metro Region)
MD 20740 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
website: www.gse.harvard.edu/iep    
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Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, 
(Washington D.C. Metro Region)
MD 20740 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
website: www.gse.harvard.edu/iep

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