Thursday, April 5, 2018

Innovation, Sharing Key to Better Schools


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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