Thank
you all, for your responses. (‘LinkedIN’
groups)
Teacher’s
time is consumed on reporting and filling forms, spending lot of time turning
pages of students note books to tick and sign, as all these are mandatory to
show they are working. Yes, these automated routines consuming a lot of time
and teachers are completely engaged in the school hours and they are also
spending lot of family time too.
Tight
time schedules of teachers with in school hours, in my view, are structured
thinking with a frame work of "input and output" model of efficiency,
calculating how much of money is spent on them and how much time they are spending on
schools activities.
The present school system is shaped, with a frame work of 'how much students should learn and show efficiency' with in a given time. Yes, this worked very well, as it was that day
requirement of society, those who are fit 'in' and those are not 'out'.
As
on today, we are thinking to include every one, as education purposes are
not to identify 'fit or not', but to 'empower' and enable every one to live using maximum potential.
Basics
of school system now has to change to 'how much students are learning and
understanding', and with that to enable them to analyse what is what, so that
they become real contributors to the society, which is the real output of teaching
work.
Unfortunately somewhere
this is overtaken, and all methods we are trying are only to fix and plaster the old system cracks.
Learning happens only when teachers and
schools are designed to accept the responsibility, but not on showcasing evidences
that teaching happened as per the mandatory requirements.
In
my view 'fixed time and fixed syllabus' model requires a complete
transformation.
Your inputs please.
