To abandon myself to God is to accept the present as it is. The earlier approach of ‘learn the way they teach’ which was Teacher Centered has now changed to ‘teach the way they learn’ i.e. TPO 2019 (Secondary School English): National Rank 163, Subject Rank 17, Regional Rank 14 (Uttar Pradesh region), City Rank 5 (Lucknow), TPO 2018 (Middle School English): National Rank 44, Subject Rank 12, Regional Rank 5 (Uttar Pradesh region), City Rank 4 (Lucknow). I head the Mobile Learning division  and conduct regular tech training sessions for my peers and also head PR & Events department at Lilavatibai Podar School( Mumbai). Deville is associate professor and chairman of the Department of Theology-Philosophy, University of Saint Francis (Fort Wayne, Inidana). I recommend The Miracle Detective to all Medjugorje skeptics. An entertaining comedy about two odd friends, a fallen and an unfallen angel, trying to postpone the imminent Apocalypse. About more than book-burning censorship, literal or figurative.  Wall-sized TVs, media manipulation, blue-tooth earbuds, Postmanesque warnings about hyper-amusement, the corrective and the corruptive power of imagination, and more, in this 1953 fixup of an earlier novella. I got to learn a lot through this experience and I look forward to being  a part of this community every year. It made the discussions related to promotion more constructive for both candidates. The first population counts held in colonial New South Wales were called musters, but excluded military personnel. But the one good thing about being locked down at home was much more time for reading. Google certified Educator and  certified Transformative Coach(CMA Singapore)with more than 6 years of experience in teaching physics. This is Sampath Kumar N, working in Kavi Bharathi Vidyalaya for the past 5 years. She really enjoyed this one in English, and has been excited to pick up other titles in the venerable series. Uma Venkataraman is a senior teacher with experience of over 20 years – mentoring students in their final years at school.  She is the Head of the Department of Social Studies, Faculty Advisor for co-curricular activities such as Model UN Sessions and the Financial Quest program conducted by National Stock Exchange. Not Screwtape but still fun. Zena Hitz’s Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life is an unmistakably timely book with an undeniably untimely message. BEST FICTION CHARACTER IN VIDEOGAMES: Sir Anomen Delryn & Lady Jaheira Baldur’s Gates II Shadows of Amn. I’m reading the latter now. If the Bible is the only text that tells us about God, truth, and reality, then why are you reading Catholic World Report? His expansive approach to life issues (ranging from abortion and euthanasia to animal rights and just war) is likely to win over those who don’t typically identify with the “pro-life” camp. It tested every aspect of what it means to be a teacher. Bahram is one of the few infrastructure lawyers in the country who has been involved in five of the eight fast track power projects and has been acknowledged as a leading project finance lawyer by most international publications for over a decade. The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of the Empire, Kyle Harper. This was a book that needed to be written, and only Hanson could have done it. My apologies to the handful of you who read the scriptures also. Sc., M. Phil. Eliot/ Asesinato en la Catedral de T.S. Each book is written by Catholic authors abd contains the Imprimatur. It is systematic but organic; learned but free of footnotes; intimate yet full of Big Picture “stuff”. Donald H. Calloway, M.I.C. At fifty-three, I decided I was long overdue to read Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, especially after a recent visit to the Tolkien collection at Oxford’s Bodleian Library and the Birmingham Oratory, where Tolkien spent his formative years. He helps his students believe that mathematics is indeed not monotonous.  At the same time he himself is always curious to learn new methods. TPO 2019 (Senior Secondary School Biology): National Rank 9, Subject Rank 1, Regional Rank 1 (Karnataka region), City Rank 1 (Bengaluru), TPO 2018 (Senior Secondary School Biology): National Rank 34, Subject Rank 1, Regional Rank 4 (Karnataka region), City Rank 4 (Bengaluru), TPO 2017 (High School Biology): National Rank 360, Subject Rank 8, Regional Rank 43 (Karnataka region). A mystical trip to the planet Tormance, in the binary system of Arcturus. In the field of history, the most enjoyable and informative book I read this past year was Ron Chernow’s biography, Grant. Honest, hardworking and passionate, Ms. Risha Imran believes that education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together and the job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings. education in under-served areas. South zone being my preferred location in Test City, Kolkata, I had been allotted Future Institute of Engineering and Management as the Test Centre. TPO 2018 (Senior Secondary School Chemistry): Subject Rank 30, TPO 2017 (High School English): National Rank 317, Subject Rank 8, Regional Rank 5 (West Bengal Region), Test City Rank 4 (Kolkata), TPO 2018 (Senior Secondary School Biology): Regional Rank 32 (Gujarat Region), TPO 2018 (Senior Secondary School Biology): Subject Rank 50. Finally, a strange and rather haunting children’s book Nicolas and the Six Bells (London: DA Publishing, 2020) by David Ackerman. The hidden history of Black Catholic nuns in the U.S. Two news items from last week put me in mind of St. Irenaeus and the battle he waged, nineteen centuries ago, against the Gnostic heresy. I love to teach and I am constantly reading and updating myself. An important read in a world plagued by activism, noise, and the loneliness and stress of the COVID quarantine world we currently find ourselves in. The main objective of the journal is to set a forum for publication, education, and exchange of opinions, and to promote research and publications globally. So at least in my real-life application, I did discover the Eucharist in lembas as Turin’s good friend Beleg offered it to him, and it was a very welcomed discovery during a year when receiving Christ’s body was dramatically limited. This work explores all the way the concept of “garden,” from Genesis to Easter Sunday (“thinking he was the gardener…”) to the bucolic scenes in Dante and non-Christian literature, are employed to show how the human and the natural co-exist (or don’t). While I had read them previously, I had the occasion this past year of revisiting two of Robert L. Wilken’s books, Remembering the Christian Past (1995) and The Spirit of Early Christian Thought (2003). Coming from a commerce background he completed his Masters in Commerce under the Department of Commerce of the University of Delhi. From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy, and the Crisis of the Catholic Church by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah (Ignatius Press, 2020). Bergsma in his conclusions never goes beyond the evidence he presents, a disciplined intellectual quality which adds to, rather than diminishes, the work. Student Assessment & Remediation (20 marks), Professional Competencies & Classroom Communication (30 marks). Maybe, maybe not. Lee Smolin dissents. This memoir of Ronald Reagan’s last years is an inspiring and affectionate look at a great man and how he touched one family’s life. DC OFFICE. I am learner by heart and always ready to learn and explore. TPO 2018 (Middle School English): National Rank 305, Subject Rank 49, Regional Rank 1o (East Region (includes Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal)), City Rank 8 (Kolkata). The conflicts, betrayals, misunderstandings, human failures, and frequent cruddiness are as real as the heroism, and the whole enterprise is fundamentally doomed. The candidate who got promoted also got valuable feedback for areas which she should leverage to do well in the role as well as areas to build upon. While Tolkien did not like allegory and symbolism, he did like “applicability”, and allowed the reader the freedom to apply that applicability to one’s own life and circumstances. He was recently recognized as the NextGen Leader in Philanthropy by Forbes India. Be assured that no publisher will be looking to have Trump’s memoirs, nor will any university be seeking his presence as a Visiting Professor of Politics. Recently, I found myself in desperate need of a Jane Austen novel, but a new Austen novel, not one I had read before–which is, unfortunately, all of them. : A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity, where Alisa Childers shares an easy-to-follow guide to what’s good and not-so-good for you on modern church menus. TPO 2016 (High School English): Subject  Rank 49, TPO 2018 (Middle School English): Test City Rank 10 (Navi Mumbai), TPO 2017 (Middle School English): National Rank 418, Test City Rank 6 (Navi Mumbai), TPO 2016 (High School English): Subject Rank 42, TPO 2019 (Senior Secondary School Biology): National Rank 34, Subject Rank 3, Regional Rank 2 (Gujarat Region), Test City Rank 1 (Jamnagar Region), TPO 2019 (Secondary School Biology): National Rank 315, Subject Rank 19, Regional Rank 18 (Gujarat Region), Test City Rank 5 (Jamnagar), TPO 2018 (Secondary School Biology): National Rank 550, Subject Rank 48, Regional Rank 20 (Gujarat Region), Test City 8 (Ahmedabad Region), TPO 2018 (Senior Secondary School Biology): Subject Rank 41, TPO 2016 (Primary (includes English, Maths and EVS)): National Rank 46, Subject Rank 23, Regional Rank 7 (Karnataka Region), TPO 2015 (Primary (includes English, Maths and EVS)): National Rank 126, Regional Rank 18 (Bengaluru Region). See why Cavins’s endeavor is the #1 bestselling Catholic Bible in the United States. The poetry of James Matthew Wilson in his volumes Some Permanent Things, The Hanging God, and River of the Immaculate Conception lay out the glory, the promise, and the disconnects of being modern, traditional, Catholic, and American. Fr. I have a review coming out elsewhere of Heinz Weiss, Trauma, Guilt, and Reparation: the Path from Impasse to Development. A balanced and fair treatment, including its ending with Galileo. I tend to veer back and forth between genres (published a poetry collection last year), and this month I’ve been reading poetry, as well as some related nonfiction that I began earlier in the year and never quite finished. I have been in this profession for almost two decades. It has also been, more happily, a year of many good books. I am very much looking forward to tackling Quatro’s short stories and hoping another novel is in the works. Plus, as others have said, most of us are also reading the Bible on our own as well. I got an golden opportunity to work in FIITJEE Ltd., at New Delhi. At least, we’re supposed to know it.  Let’s pray that our bishops and priests don’t act upon any regulations that put our physical safety first, to the detriment of what really matters.  See you at Mass.  No matter what the governors say. Have peace until the morning! Re-reading it will become a vital part of the seasonal tradition. I’ve also started back on something else that involves reading:  a memorization project (a thing I often promise myself that I will do and then fail from over-busyness or laziness) and have some poems by Hopkins, Yeats, and Shakespeare firmed up. It requires us to develop a healthy and trustworthy relationship with our students in order to create a safe, positive and productive learning environment. An ancient parody of Homer in a sprightly new translation with whimsical illustrations. Teaching is not merely imparting knowledge but also being there for the students at all times: being a pillar of strength when in the midst of problems, being a light and a guide in their moments of doubt, being a source of comfort in their anxiety, and being a model for them to look up to for inspiration. Living Memento Mori: My Journey through the Stations of the Cross by Emily DeArdo (Ave Maria Press, 2019). Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson is shocked when her father remarries and brings a manipulative stepmother and a gorgeous but affection-starved stepsister into their comfortable home. Being a girl I realised how important it is for me to actually prove my skills and knowledge to this world because girls/woman are always considered as backward. It’s set long ago and far away, written in beautiful verse, and packed with knights, ladies, and the search for the Grail, but there are problems in Camelot. I also love children and believe that they deserve the best of the teachers in their years of growing up. Parts of the original story—such as the encounter with Tom Bombadil, the fall of Gandalf, and the scouring of the Shire—were just as powerful as in their final form. An inspiring conversion tale, I devoured it before recommending it to a former student beginning a year with Christ in the City. In English for the first time are John Paul II’s insights into St. Paul’s balance of faith and reason. Similarly, Christianity cared for the poor, the sick and the elderly – Christians outlived their pagan neighbors. Christopher Stasheff, The Warlock series. She has assisted 4 Research Scholars with their PhD thesis She was honoured for her inspiring journey as an educationist as her name featured on the Hall of Fame of the internationally acclaimed India Didactics Association (IDA) in 2018. If you value the news and views Catholic World Report provides, please consider donating to support our efforts. With Covid hampering one of my favorite pastimes, going “behind the scenes” with this history and analysis of the growth of opera has been a real comfort. Joshua J. Whitfield sounds an alarm by addressing what he calls the “ crisis of bad preaching” (emphasis added). All of which shows the complexity of the currents within Catholic thought, especially with a high-end thinker like Guardini. My journey with CENTA started in the year 2017 and since then I have always looked forward to it. There is a little more than fun: The Expanse is essentially about a hugely important question of our time: what if we came into possession of a biotechnological tool that gives us mastery of our own biological nature. I feel, no teacher can ever be depressed amongst children, they give you such a positive energy to be happy.Teaching is a wonderful profession and teachers are warriors, the current pandemic has proven it.It is not the knowledge or information we impart in our lessons, but the affection and positive learning environment we create that makes learning a joy. Martin Jarvis is also very good. Serving the education sector from past 5 years and will do so all my life. What’s past is present. I Hope to continue doing better work in future with blessings of Almighty and All wellwishers. David P. Deavel is editor of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture and a visiting assistant professor of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota). The exploits of the brilliant Benedict Arnold read like something out of Horatio Hornblower (see next entry). His proposed solution to the dead end in which we’ve landed involved reconnecting to a corrected form of classical metaphysics. when I volunteered as a reading assessor at Chadwell Heath School. Wilken possesses the marvelous talent of bringing together diverse topics from the Church’s ancient past and making them relevant for today.  Wilkin’s love for the early Church is ever present, and he fosters that same love within the reader. Finally, as a long-time researcher and commentator on Pope Pius XII, I was elated to receive the first comprehensive work about the newly released Pius XII archives: Le Bureau: Les Juifs de Pie XII [The Office: The Jews of Pius XII] by Dr. Johan Ickx, one of the Church’s leading historians in Europe. The reading year kicked off in normal fashion. Other doctrinal refreshers. I was always a student-friendly teacher and that’s why I am still remembered by thousands of students. Last year’s edition of the list had just over forty lists of books. My name is Vertika Rastogi. 1. Books, Features 6° History of the Vicegoths by Daniel Gómez Aragonés publishing Almuzara libros / Historia de los Visigodos by Daniel Gómez Aragonés publishing Almuzara. But even if that wasn’t the case, I would still insist that this is a work of journalism and analysis to be reckoned with: unflinching, brave, deeply perceptive, fully orthodox, and completely unafraid to call a spade a space without ever flirting (never mind falling into) sensationalism or hysteria. I had achieved the Subject Rank of 15 in Secondary School English, placed 6th in the Eastern Region [West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha], 4th in Test City, Kolkata and ranked 157th among the Top 552 Winners’ List across 47 cities of India and 2 international centres in UAE [Dubai, Abu Dhabi] and all 21 Subject Tracks. She is also an internationally published poet. A very kind CENTA staff approached me while I searched for my breath. It seems the multi-cultural professionals do not think it’s necessary to target white people (except, perhaps, for fundraising purposes). She believes that life is all about learning and Karma has its own rewards.. An educationist for twenty five years. One critical incident involving the eponymous lead character forms an interesting parallel with the scene at Lord Marchmain’s death bed in Brideshead. But once they did open, I found a keeper! This is a wonderful meditative spiritual work by Robert Cardinal Sarah. The first was the emergence of Bruce Jenner as a […]. A number of non-fiction, non-theology books held my interest this year as well. Ashish Dhawan is the Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation (CSF). For a learned, truthful, balanced, and elegant account of the past, one cannot do better than to read Robert Royal’s Columbus and The Crisis of The West (Sophia Institute Press, 2020), a book that admirably avoids both the hagiography of the past and the ideological distortions of the present. It was the right book for a year that was just all wrong.Â, Legumes contain a sugar called oligosaccharide. This year, all the teachers of my school have taken the TQ and the youngest one commented, “Ma’am, I would take it once more asap, it is kind of addictive.”  When we stay with the humility of studentship, then we teach from our highest. I write this year’s entry from a book-filled home in a wooded area of Western Oregon, while my two cats, Hastings and Mycroft, stare menacingly at the squirrels and blue jays safely outside the window.