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Quality education and teacher development

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The present article discusses the role of the teacher in education and the relationship between the quality in education and teacher development. The various domains viz a viz the essential skills, use of technology, mentorship, adaptability, art of teaching and flexibility have been taken into consideration to identify the key areas of teacher development and to discuss the impact these elements and contribute in enhancement of quality of education. India was once the pioneer in education and to sustain our leadership position the teacher development is inevitable. The development is needed to synchronize with the advancement in the subject matter and with advent of technology; there has been a paradigm shift in the methods of learning and education. Thus, there is a need of development to make teachers understand how the modern societies indulge in education with Technology. The psychological and personality aspects have also been studied with key references to the areas where the teacher development can take education to a long way. The article focuses on the areas where the developmental tasks need to be undertaken and highlights the various dimensions of adaptability that needs to be achieved for attainment of quality in education.
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QUALITY EDUCATION AND TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
KULDEEP CHAND ROJHE*; DR. SULOCHNA**
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ABSTRACT
The present article discusses the role of the teacher in education and the relationship between the
quality in education and teacher development. The various domains viz a viz the essential skills, use
of technology, mentorship, adaptability, art of teaching and flexibility have been taken into
consideration to identify the key areas of teacher development and to discuss the impact these
elements and contribute in enhancement of quality of education. India was once the pioneer in
education and to sustain our leadership position the teacher development is inevitable. The
development is needed to synchronize with the advancement in the subject matter and with advent of
technology; there has been a paradigm shift in the methods of learning and education. Thus, there is a
need of development to make teachers understand how the modern societies indulge in education with
Technology. The psychological and personality aspects have also been studied with key references to
the areas where the teacher development can take education to a long way. The article focuses on the
areas where the developmental tasks need to be undertaken and highlights the various dimensions of
adaptability that needs to be achieved for attainment of quality in education.
Key Words: Education, Teacher, Development, Quality
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The quality of the society depends on the education it imparts and quality of education imparted
depends upon the quality of human resources involved in this process of utmost responsibility.
A peep through the historical window of education clearly reveals that India had its supremacy over
the various fields of knowledge and number of Indian professionals working across the global borders
in premier organizations depict that it still does. India is not new to education and nor are the various
fields of knowledge to India. May it be space explorations, surgery, mathematics or engineering &
management, enough evidence lies that Indian societies had been taking leverage of these fields of
knowledge. So much so, it is this legacy that puts our name today among the list of knowledge
societies.
Even the study of vicious circle of development proves that education has an immense role in growth
and development. There exists a positive relationship between knowledge, education, society,
economy & development and precisely all these latter things depend upon one critical factor i.e.
Teacher.
In other words, it is the teacher that forms the genesis of the whole concept. It is an accepted fact that
role of a teacher is to be a source of motivation, inspiration and knowledge and when it comes to
education, education is an amalgamation of these three crucial elements. The core challenge therefore
is ensuring these deliverables from the teachers and their transition in form of education. Moreover,
education is a learning process for both teacher and the taught and therefore demands grinding the axe
and continuously developing the teacher so as to achieve the marginal increment in the quality of the
taught simultaneously. In the nutshell, teacher development is the key for quality education.
Development as it is understood is itself a conglomerate of various skills. As Katz said, human,
technical & conceptual skills are the key abilities that create the difference between good, better &
best. Even in education, development of teachers revolves around these broader domains. Moreover,
aims of education are simple, to carve out a society where individuals depict character, values,
progress, contribution towards society and ultimately lead to the advancement of individuals,
economies and societies. Quality in education thus pertains to the extent to which these objectives are
achieved and development of teachers is the key.
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Life of a teacher is a seesaw between the process of learning, unlearning & again learning, therefore it
is imperative that development is perceived as contributing the capacity to move beyond rigidity and
to adapt to the needs of the time. The innovations in the fields of subject matter, the psychological
differences of the generations, dynamics of the environment, openness to new concepts and ideas are
crucial areas of self-development and enhancement and go a long way to protect from knowledge
obsolescence.
The advancement in the technology and its inevitable use in education demand the teachers to climb a
steep learning curve. The world has undoubtedly moved beyond traditional blackboards, overhead
projectors and powerpoints. The latest bug with the modern societies and the taught generation is of
podcasts, videocasts, learning management solutions, 24X7 learning, online learning and mentorship,
virtual classrooms and digital libraries. Certainly as always, the better version of all the gadgets and
technologies in the pipeline and this opens a new region for continuous improvement and adaptation.
To maintain this equilibrium between the mediums of learning, the present teachers must be
developed to bridge this digital divide and understand the tool of technological learning in the modern
era.
There is a huge challenge to a teacher in the present scenario of mass education in terms of one to one
connectivity with the students, the teacher-student ratio leaves negligible scope of understanding
between the teacher and the taught and finally narrows the opportunities for better understanding the
students and thus better learning. This ultimately has its share in declining quality of education. This
demands to promote the capability of the teachers for better connectivity with the learners. Here
mentorship skills can go a long way in overall development of the pupils and finally attaining quality
education.
Today, the confinement of the teachers only to the course is another bottleneck in the progress. The IT
savvy student generation has a better grasp of the environment, sectors, global and domain specific
affairs. Therefore, though expertise over the field of subject is important, the educators must also have
sufficient knowledge of the subsystems in which affect the life of an individual student. The cross
dimensional knowledge of the real environmental as well as hands on experience through live projects
and consultancy offers immense scopes to widen the horizons not only for the teachers but also the
learners. Moreover, making use of the specialized knowhow for the practical purposes will not only
boost the confidence of the society in education but will also add to the subject matters by
synchronizing it with the need of the hour.
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History has revealed that personality attributes of the educator has a lifelong influence on the learning
process and finally affecting the education quality. The potentials to stay calm, impartial and to be a
role model are inevitable. On the psychological front, understanding of the psychology and the shift in
psychology with stages of life demands a thorough understanding. The responsibility to be an
inspiration certainly rests on strong foundations of personality attributes and affects the system at the
individual levels. Optimism, passion for learning and teaching, decent sense of humour, leadership
and setting of examples by doing are few specific areas which can add immense value to the voyage
of development.
Although education includes various disciplines of science; in reality teaching itself is an art. The
present education system has laid importance on subject command of the educator, but little has been
done to measure the artistic skill of teachers at the entry level. Numerous examples have shown that
students have admired those teachers who are successful to translate the complex into simplicity
rather than those who were masters of the fields but could not relate it to the level of the learners.
Education, teaching, coaching and counselling are basically arts that needs to be learnt and missing
this dimension is missing to take that giant leap in quality enhancement.
Lastly, many criticisms have already been made on the policies of education, system and its
westernization. The views of the constructive critics are respected, but ironically value addition is a
responsibility more at the level of those individuals who are the actual touch points with the learners.
In spite of the democratic system of education we still lack flexibility which ultimately results in
making a person to land up at a place he least belong to. The limited choice to courses and topics,
rigidity for the subject combinations, undesirable weightage to the examinations than to learning and
lack of benchmarks need to be skilfully dealt with.
It must be remembered that education has a purpose and that purpose ultimately affects every
individual and organism across the globe. The education which was once the yardstick for other
nations has today become a subject matter of analysis for the blame game and profits, moreover if the
trend continues the time will come when informal education may overshadow the formal system of
education. It needs to be understood that like any other organization, even in education the human
resources are the ones that play the key role and unlike the other organizations this is a system that
greatly relies on the human resources for the development of future human resources that will carve
out a great future for the societies, nations and mankind. The teachers are and will always remain the
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key players to add to its quality and the extent to which each individual teacher is developed will
finally translate into the quality of education.
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