Ramachandran, Vimala
(2016)
The position of teachers in our education system 1.
Learning Curve (25).
pp. 50-52.
Abstract
I have been wrestling with the ‘teacher’ question
for over fifteen years. Unfortunately the debate
on teachers and their centrality to the public
education system is highly polarised. There is a
large community of administrators, researchers
and writers who have taken to regular ‘teacher-
bashing’ and there are an equally vocal community
that takes a contrary view. The purpose of this short
article is to try and understand the way teachers
are positioned in our system and why and how this
is an important cause for concern.Approximately 42 per cent of government
elementary schools have only one or two teachers
for the elementary grades. However, the teachers
are not equipped to effectively conduct multi-
grade teaching despite clear policy directives at the
national level. The NCF 2005 suggests considerable
planning is required on the part of teachers to
address multi-grade situations — however, the
teacher education process still treats multi-grade
situation as an anomaly.
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