Innovation, Sharing
Key to Better Schools
Even as the ranking of universities makes news, we
must confront the reality that their intake is, for the most part, of poor
quality, thanks to the poor learning outcomes that plague the spectrum of
India’s schools. For India to take full advantage of its demographic dividend,
it must focus on improving its school education system.
First-generation learners constitute the bulk of
the school going population, particularly in the network of government funded
schools. For these children, the school is the only available pathway to a
better life. The most important step would be to empower and encourage teachers
to innovate. Moving away from a restrictive textbook-based teaching, they need
to have the freedom to translate curricula into practice in a manner that
addresses the requirements of their students. Teachers must be able to and
helped to design teaching in a manner that children can understand and relate
to. This could mean higher local content and non-textbook forms of teaching.
They also need to be held accountable; not to a faraway department of education
in the state capital but to school management committees of peers, parents of
students, and local luminaries. Many schools and teachers are already
innovating in order to be more effective. These practices and approaches need
to be made available to teachers and school administrators across the system.
Institutions like the NCERT and SCERT should use cloud-based sharing platforms
to this end.
Source | Economic
Times | 5th April 2018
Regards
Mr. Pralhad Jadhav
Master of Library & Information Science (NET
Qualified)
Senior Manager @ Knowledge Repository
Khaitan & Co
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