Training for teachers for effective class room management

To day teaching has lost its formal glory. The teacher has become just  a facilitator in the urban class room. The teacher has become an under performer in semi-urban and rural class rooms. Very rarely students talk about inspiring teachers in both the scenarios.

Government has not allotted enough funds for the  education sector, and hence it has gone to private players. Today's students studying in private schools/colleges think: 'Why should I give special respect to the teacher, when he is paid by me?'  We are reminded of tuition teachers who visited rich men's houses those days, and who were some times not respected enough by the parents as well as students. 

The number of schools and colleges has increased ten times. There are many types of backgrounds from which students come from now-a-days. Teachers become frustrated when they are not able to identify themselves with these students. 

Either the students are too smart and don't have respect for the under-performing  teacher, or the students are so lethargic and passive that the teacher also becomes lethargic in the class room. 

Most of the teachers going through these circumstances gradually become under-performers. 

The question is:  'where are the mature, scholarly, commanding teachers?'

Are they working for the Corporates?

Are they in the media?

Are they in public service?

Why is it teaching does not attract brilliant people any longer in spite of the good pay?

How do we empower the teachers to teach in a globalised society?

• Somewhere in the line brilliant minds have lost interest in teaching. Why? What are the reasons? 
• Internet and pouring knowledge resources that the teacher has lost his authority? 
• Knowledge has become the independent pursuit of the individual where the teacher is unnecessary?
• Private players in education that it has become a capitalistic business? 
• No scope for personal growth in schools and colleges? 
• Too much of inter-personal problems in educational institutions?

What can be done to tackle this situation?

1. Teacher education programmes at the school level and collegiate level have to prepare the teachers in motivation skills,  counselling skills, goal setting skills, ICT Tools making, rapport making with students skills, mind mapping skills to assist reading texts, summing up skills etc. 
2. Add-on courses on leadership skills and managerial skills can help teachers in class room management. 
3. The teacher today meets a student who is exposed to the internet, TV, cinema and the Television. Hence the teacher has to be in touch with these media to understand the minds of students.

The teacher-student relationship has taken a set back now-a-days. With an empowered teacher the class room will become more significant and more vibrant. 

Celebrating Navratri

Celebrating 'womanhood'

The powerful energy in women is celebrated as many ritualistic festivals in India.

After society allotted the family space to women and ruled her out of social life, it wanted to recognize her contributions to the organization of social systems. It took every opportunity to please her and worshiped her forms.

It is essential mankind remembers what a great responsibility women have taken on their shoulders -   managing the household, its economics and politics, and bringing up children. Every woman intuitively learns strategies. Men at times are at a loss in trying to understand her strategies.

The economic women of the middle class are world class Managers. They have kept the great family kinship alive in India.

We can celebrate Navaratri as an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of women to the system of family on which the society and world are well balanced.