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A superlative teacher desires to be well conversant about using the language very appropriate to the children. It is obligatory to create awareness and congenial atmosphere on the part of a teacher. In order to widen lecture, group debate is a vital obsession. As a teacher, we have to make certain that group presentation is effectual. In respect of the qualities of a good teacher, he or she must decide on any method to educate the students but according to Franchise Bacon, most of the good teachers opt for the sixth Rule of teaching that is ‘ Repeat, Recap, Review ‘ which is the nearly all noteworthy one to make the teaching fundamentally proficient, earth-shattering, prolific and up to the mark

The reasons in support of the argument are stated as follows.

(a) Repeat: According to Franchise Bacon, ‘when you notify something in the class to a group of students, it is only a motto but when you summarize it, reiterate it and ask the question on the steps forward, it will be interacted and if you further emphasize the concept, they will be conversant with the relevant knowledge’. Indeed, incase of delivering an important message, if it is stated once-only 10% will be memorized but if it is stated 6 times then 90% are memorized after one year. So, reiteration/repetition is the most important tools for the teaching to make the topics memorable. If the message is not remembered and comprehensible then the whole thing will be treated as useless.

(b) Recap: It is by and large meant by recap to go over again the imperative point of the relevant contents. Using FULLE-R and VHF for better memorization can do the recap. As the first events are best memorized so to start with big message. Thereafter unusual event like cartoon, exercise etc. be used. Thirdly, linked event, here mnemonics or analogy can be used and lastly to end with big messages of fascination towards the topics. In this context, summing up the ideas to arrive the conclusion that is the gist in question to be communicated to the students as a good communicator of the teaching course. We should remember one thing that ‘ Telling is not teaching; we need to make teaching active and interesting; get students involved; see it from the student’s view; we should use VHF and FULL-R. According to Comoneus, an eminent educationist, for an successful teaching, ‘only lecture is irrelevant but in order to adorn it for better memorization, ideal approach, manifestation, visual display and varieties of attractions of the students are considered necessary.

Review: A proverb always goes like ‘ To err is human’. It is human temperament to put out of our mind the things/message, which is not reviewed that are we losing what we don’t review. To review we are to regularly sum up where we have reached and invited questions. At the end of every topics if the teacher repeats, recap and review, ask questions and help them to answer properly, the students will be more motivated and conversant with the subjects and grasp it properly so that teaching will be effective and fruitful. That is to say, a teacher’s behavior will be in such, which must attract the students for effective and efficient teaching. Hence it is widely recognized that apropos to the teaching method, the following are important to apply in teaching the students virtually.

1. Telling is not teaching

2. Age is not a bar to learn

3. Meaningful learning experience

4. Voice, image and body use

5. Practical Orientation

6. Repeat, Recap and Review

In conveying lecture, there are boundaries, which may create impediment to learning on the part of the students. Sometimes the lecture may be seamy and tedious due to non-stop saying. If there is waterlessness amongst the students, the teacher should modify the policy of his lecture. He should ask open-ended questions. Open ended question help get students drawn in. Assuming to know a scrupulous thing, one may get fascinated if he is intended to know those fastidious items. An ideal teacher needs to be well clued-up about using the language. It is indispensable to create wakefulness and agreeable atmosphere on the part of a teacher. Or else, we have to live in the midst of dissatisfaction and unauthorized activities where there will be no light of education as a symbol of blaze illumination and peace and prosperity of life. In this context, William Shakespeare says:

“Out! Out! A brief candle,

A life’s but a walking shadow,

A poor player!

That struts and frets his hour

Upon the stage!

And then is heard no more,

It is a tale;

Told by an idiot,

It is full of sound and fury;

Signifying nothing.”