In Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar, This Teacher Helps Students Learn Tamil Through Songs And Drama

Teachers across the world lay the foundation for the bright future of their students. They leave no stone unturned to reach all their students and make learning an enjoyable experience. One of the teachers named Velmurugan from Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu is a testament to this statement. The News18 Tamil reports that Velmurugan teaches at Vellayapuram Government Higher Secondary School, Virudhunagar district. He teaches Tamil to the students in an innovative manner by narrating the lessons in the form of songs.

Velmurugan aims to stimulate interest in Tamil learning amongst the students via this method. He expressed his disappointment at the fact that students are not able to remember the lyrics of Tamil songs as well. He felt that teaching Tamil to them via music could achieve twin objectives- they would learn Tamil and the songs composed in the language as well. He has also devised the method of teaching Tamil to the students via the art form of drama.

Velmurugan is inspired to embark on this noble initiative by his Tamil teacher who taught him in school. As seen in the video shared by News18 Tamil, students are attentively listening to their children.

Many teachers have come up with interesting methods to make learning an intriguing experience for students. According to the Times of India, Shilpa Raghuvanshi Chauhan uses the game of stapoo (similar to the Hopscotch game) for teaching children. She uses stapoo to help children learn about the structure and functioning of the heart. Shilpa is a postgraduate biology teacher at Salwan Public School, Rajinder Nagar in Delhi.

The 39-year-old has been a teacher now for a decade after gaining a PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She said, “The objective of the project was to help students enjoy learning and retaining information about long biological processes through affordable games. Games can be easily designed so that students from all sections of society can benefit. When they are learning through stapoo, they are in groups and jointly learn the lessons, which they can revise easily too.”