Ubaidullah Baig - My identity as a writing teacher.

My identity as a Writing Teacher:

I joined in the service a ten years ago in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh as Secondary Grade Teacher. After joining in the service, I tried our state's Public Service Commission's Tests but I could not make it to the final list. While I was preparing for those exams I used to write and sharr some important things in the blog , like current affairs, list of books, areas to be focused etc. This is the blog I created about 10 years ago, in 2012 as  I used to keep posting in subtopics, subject-wise etc. I used to gather important stuff online, compile them and edit them to make it short and then I used to post them in the blog. In my blog you can find a huge number of sub-topics in Menu i.e. tabs. This is the same blog I am using currently. But nowadays I am not writing and creating any material in the blog but planning to continue this from now-onwards. 

My writing works at our SCERT:

I worked as module writer at AP-SCERT for Teacher's Handbook. We had created resources, lessons plans etc to help the teachers while dealing with new English medium textbooks. I worked with Textbook writing team to find the writing errors related to language in Mathematics from class 1 to 5. 

Most satisfactory work I did there was spotting the writing errors in the National Anthem. Some punctuation errors were there. We had given proof for that i.e. Gazette published by Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Mr. Kishore, head of Mathematics team encourages me a lot at SCERT, and also other officials. 

Micro blogging and social media platforms to present my writing skills:

Apart from this blog I used to write on social media platforms and I am continuing it. In social media platform we have to convey the things in short paragraphs or in few phrases. Facebook groups that I act as an admin have given me a lot of scope to write and convey the larger message in less words. I am acting as admin for fb groups that have more than one Lakh members in total. Acting as Admin for whatsapp groups for around 100 whatsapp groups. Sometimes our member would be waiting for our responses on the social media, that gives us pleasure even-though somewhat it is creating pressure to write and create posts immediately after the incidents happening.

How do I teach writing : 

I focus on aspects of writing like spellings, punctuations and capitalisation techniques. While teaching English for classes like 7th and 8th I would like to give more information and techniques of punctuations to separate  or link the words, phrases and clauses.

I focus on children's writing and support them in the areas like Capital letters,techniques and rules to be followed while writing proper nouns, key words in Titles, at the beginning of the sentences etc. Content creation is very important aspect of Writing, and I learnt here at the RIESI that I need to focus on this. There is a lot more to know about Writing, and there is much more to learn about it, I learnt here.