Teacher symbol

‘Teacher Symbol- Professional Identity to the Teacher in the World’

: Authors :Mr. Subhashbhai V. MakwanaAssistant Professor, N. H.Patel College of Education, Anand,Dist-Anand, State-Gujarat (India)E-mail :- [email protected]+919426410176

Dr. Jignesh B. PatelAssistant Professor,

Center of Education, Children’s University,

Gandhinagar-Gujarat (India)Email:- [email protected]

+919429429550

http://teachersymbol.webs.com/

Education and Teacher:•Education persuaded for knowledge as well as for salvation or self realization.•A long tradition of teaching and learning process•Dynamic society influenced by Education•Teacher performs duty ofTeachingProviding guidance and facilitating opportunity to learn to the horizons of ultimate knowledgeImparting and taking care of global as well as context relevant knowledge

Adams (1871)“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell

where his influence stops.”

Teacher Education

is preparing teachers as per the

demand of the Society

Desirable’s for teacher to posses:• Art of teaching• Insight of students’ psychology

• Proper mental health• Bright vision• Interest in students’ development• Respect to students’ feelings and self-esteem• Humanistic perspective•Commitment towards students’ in particular and society in general• Acceptance of responsibility of consequences

Diversities in Teachers in form of Disciplines, Levels, Places And Time.

Disciplines like Education, Science, Mathematics, Humanities,

Commerce, Law, Performing Arts, Social Work, Technology etc.

Levels Pre-primary, Elementary, Secondary, Higher Secondary,

Higher Education, Professional courses etc. Places Rural, Urban; State, Nation etc. Time Past, Present and Future

Diversities in Teachers in form of Disciplines, Levels, Places And Time.

Teachers are working in isolation, but the education or knowledge covers all of the disciplines or subjects in integrated way

Mutually depended on efforts of each other Sequential and cumulative in chronological order and

none can break it at a specific point. Teaching is a collaborative work in sequential order and

effective performance of teacher is essential at every stage of education

Every organization and professions have their specific visual identity in form of logo, symbol, text etc. Which are unique in the society and can establish unity in own endeavours.

Logo or Symbol :

UNO

Emblem of India

Human Right

Medicine Freedom

Peace

Education is inevitable process for every human being

Teachers are playing pivot role in it

Inevitable to denote symbol of its unique and prestigious identity at international level

Logo or Symbol for Teachers:

Laoshi

师

sensei

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The authors created a ‘Teacher Symbol’ and offering to Teacher to establish identity and status in the world utilizing different concepts of Teacher and Teaching profession.

Tenth Attempt: Created in CorelDraw

Teacher Symbol

‘Tr’ in English cursive writing Microsoft Office Word

‘Tr’ (Gigi font), ‘Tr’ (Magneto font),‘Tr ’ (Palace Script MT font), ‘Tr’ (Vivaldi font) etc.

Abbreviated the word ‘Teacher’ as ‘Tr’ and written in English cursive writing as ‘ ’.

T r

In this symbol a student is giving honour to teacher.The symbol ‘ ’ has sketches of both of them also, where the sketch ‘ ’ is student and ‘ ’ is teacher.

Honour to Teacher by student:

Honour to Teacher by student:

Teacher’s handsTeacher’s legs

Teacher’s head blessing to student

Student’s hands

Student’s headStudent leans on knee to honour

All of these concepts also exhibit through a part of this symbol in a sketch ‘ ’ of an unborn baby in the womb of mother in this symbol.

Mother’s body

Mother’s head leans to unborn baby for continuous care

Unborn baby in womb of mother

Comparison between Mother and Teacher

Mother Teacher

Mother as physical mother Teacher as emotional mother

Student as conceptual child

A fetus (unborn baby) in her

(teacher’s) womb at the time of

learning

Mother takes care of child in

womb

Teacher takes care of student in

Education


Mother Teacher

She takes care about

own diet and thoughts,

nutritious and good food

Teacher takes care about

nutritious and good food in form of

reading books, discussion with

others and utilizing available

resources to learn and strengthen

teaching

Be in company of

holy atmosphere, good persons

holy and personality oriented books or literature and music

Comparison between Mother and TeacherMother Teacher

Preserves mental health

and always be in pleasant

mood

Preserves own mental as well as

physiological health for the sake of

student’s well beingTakes prescription from the doctor for the progressive growth and development of the unborn baby

Takes prescriptions from the experts, educationists, literatures, researches etc. for betterment of the student.Teacher takes part in seminars, workshops, training programmes, projects, research works etc.


Mother Teacher

Consciously or unconsciously the

unborn baby in her womb is at the

centre in thoughts, speech and

action all day and night

Conscious about own thoughts,

speech and action all day and

night for better learning and

promotion of students to the

proceeding stage

takes care of own behaviour in

presence of student as well as in

their absence too


Mother Teacher

After a period of time

(days/months) a baby gets birth

with enough growth and

development

After a period of time

(months/years) student gets

emotional birth

• Teaching-learning process goes on the world over

• Every human being undergoes through informal, non-formal and formal way of learning

• The whole world or Globe is full of teachers and students.

• The symbol includes the letter ‘G’ also as script ‘ ’, which represents the ‘Global teachers and students’.

The script ‘ ’ also stands for the word ‘Guru’•This word is from Sanskrit language and accepted in the English Dictionary.•The word ‘Guru’ has two meanings:one is ‘Teacher’ and another is ‘Greater or Bigger than others’The symbol correspond to both of these concepts.

The letter ‘ e ’ is for ‘education.

Script ‘ ’also included in this

symbol

Letter ‘e’ for ‘education’

Yellow Colour

Symbolic Colour of Knowledge

Place In the head of the teacher

Interpretations Teacher’s head is full of knowledge

the knowledge is oozing towards the

student

White ColourSymbolic • White indicates emptiness fornew

knowledge&• Purity of Mind &• Containing seven colours (VIBGYOR)

Place • Student’s head filled up with white colourInterpretations • Student’s head is already filled with certain

basic ideas and ready to receive and bear the knowledge oozed from the teacher’s head

• White colour is colour of purity and the Student is ready to grasp knowledge with purity of mind

• White colour contains seven colours, which interprets as various fields of education.

Sky-blue ColourSymbolic • Sky-blue colour indicates broadness as well as

colour of Globe visualizing from space and colour of sky from globe

Place • Colour in the Circle of Globe, Space, and Society

Interpretations

• Teacher and Student exists everywhere on Earth as well as in Space also and both of they are Universal

• Wide range of broadness having broadness of mind

• They interact with each other and whole process going on in broadness and depth

CircleSymbolic • Circle indicates shape of Earth &

• Boundary in form of SocietyPlace • Circle as Globe and Space

• Circle of SocietyInterpretations • EARTH is full of teachers and students

• Human society as well as every types of society on earth have teacher and student

• Teaching-learning process goes on the world over through informal, non-formal and formal way of learning

• Balanced through tripod• First base i.e. teacher’s legs are firm and stable, which is balancing the other two bases

Designed as freehand drawing

Easily recall Unique Effortless design Represent at ease Single continued up and

down curved line

Visualization of Concept of Teacher and Teaching Profession

Quick recognition and easily identify

Balanced through Tripod which makes it firm and stable

Both of the shape looks like mirror image

Usable as special character in computer fonts

Neat and Legible to reproduce at smaller sizes

• Neat and Legible to reproduce in Inverse Colour as well as

Smaller sizes

Unity in Diversities in Teachers in form ofDisciplines, Levels, Places and Time.

The Teacher Symbol is… Covering concepts of teachers’ role and teaching

performance Diversity of teacher’s identity for a specific

discipline and can spread feelings of common to all Applicable to teachers of all of the Disciplines,

Levels/Stages, Places and Time

Unity in Diversities in Teachers in form ofDisciplines, Levels, Places and Time.

The Teacher Symbol is… Breaking the boundaries of disciplines, levels,

places or time and establishing common platform to all types of teachers.

Bringing equality among all Teachers as well as all human being of the world

Supporting in the Globalization on this earth

Teacher: Teacher observes this symbol, can accept it and find

oneself in it If duly performing their duty, then satisfy and

strengthen own performance and carry on their role If aren’t performing consciously or unconsciously

missing some then they will acknowledge and modify through observation

Student: Students form desirable behavior give honour to teacher become civilized individual of the Global society

Applicable to print or construct Educational organizations can utilize it in

their own logo as well as in their letterhead and in the identity card of teachers.

The teachers can also use it for own identity as well as they can use it easily instead of writing the word ‘Teacher’.

Can create symbol as initial ‘Tr.’(Tr. A. B. Patel / A. B. Patel) like ‘Dr.’ (Dr. C. D.

Modi) Can honour to individuals for their best

services in Education Can use as a Memento

Design philosophy from English word ‘Teacher’ Covers the concept of teacher as a mother and student is an

unborn baby in womb. Sketches of teacher and student are visualizing in the symbol. Indicates letter ‘G’ for ‘Globe’ as well as ‘Guru’ Indicates letter ‘e’ for ‘education’ Establishing direct relationship with the role of Teacher

profession

A humble attempt has been made to establish identity of ‘Teacher’ in the global society

Easily identifiable Easily manipulate Unique Aesthetic Pleasing Legible

Visible Readable Complete Universal identity Applicable to Computer

Recognizing the dignity status of teaching profession

Communicating the message of ‘Teacher’ with different interpretations in form of script and sketches

Value rented Symbol Breaking different boundaries of teachers i.e. Disciplines, Levels, Places and Time Teacher and Student can know about ‘Who am I ?’The global society can utilize it for the purpose of

establishing identity of teacher in the world for their betterment and comfort of Teachers, Education and Society

The global society can utilize it for the

purpose of establishing identity of

teacher in the world for their

betterment and comfort of Teachers,

Education and Society

Thank YouMr. Subhash V. MakwanaAssistant Professor, N. H.Patel College of Education, Anand,Dist-Anand, State-Gujarat (India)E-mail :- [email protected]+919426410176

Dr. Jignesh B. PatelAssistant Professor,

Center of Education, Children’s University, Gandhinagar-Gujarat (India)Email:- [email protected]

+919429429550

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