C-6-Unit1

Roles and responsibilities of a teacher of Sanskrit

• Motivator for enthusing students learn the language
• Popularizing Sanskrit in and outside the classroom
• Creating conducive climate for learning the language
• Developing skills for producing materials in Sanskrit
• Using different pedagogies of teaching Sanskrit such as planning skills based plans, using ICT for teaching, group work, assignment and seminar.
• Ensuring one’s professional development especially improving one’s language competence
• Organizing co-curricular activities in the school and even in community thereby creating opportunities to learn the language even outside the classroom
• Helping students relate learning of Sanskrit with other subjects
• Being intrinsically motivated for learning the language
• Bringing awareness among teachers’ community and parents in the school about significance of learning Sanskrit by organizing various programmes
• Organizing guest lectures of experts and collaborating with other organizations working for the promotion of Sanskrit
• Publishing materials in Sanskrit such as audio cassettes of verses, Sanskrit newsletter for the school
• Conducting action researches with respect to language learning
• Convincing the higher level authority for making supplementary resources such as dictionaries, periodicals available in the school library
• Teaching the language using supplementary resources as well.
  Keeping the habit of reading Sanskrit books, periodicals and works and motivating students to read the same.