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5 Jun 2013

Child centered curriculum???

Around the year 2000, or earlier, there was booming announcements by education boards about introduction of ‘child centered curriculum’, based on  outcomes of immense educational studies and research, with a promise of simplifying  student’s burden of education and to make education enjoyable for kids.
Then came methodologies, old and new, how they are useful and how they are implemented.
Around the same time was the technology implementation in class rooms. Many players came into this filed to make real time implementations. (education filed, as a public ground, anyone can do anything), and training programs for teachers on new methods.

All training program, with in my little observations, are how to use, how to present, never on the ‘why’? 
Then almost after 15 years teachers, many of them are not familiar with back ground knowledge, are trying to know tips and tricks and the students are their subjects.
Whenever, new process is implemented, majority of training programs are what is expected by the teachers to do in the class rooms, what type of evidences has to be produced, how to fill the forms to show case teaching is done effectively.
At the end, we spent  much of amount of cash and time, on teacher training, and  on infrastructure.

However present statistics are showing 50 to 60 % of students  in a class, don’t have basic knowledge to understand in higher level concepts. 

With in my opinion, what is going on in the class rooms is not the teacher centered or students centered education, but curriculum driven teaching and learning process.

When entire education is an ‘enabling process’ of next generation, why all these other factors are taking a major role?
Is not time to speak out, dear teachers?
After all, this is a matter of family issue of teachers and students, please speak out your opinions.






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