Career in Teaching : A Challenge in Modern Era
November 16, 2009 by admin
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Future is bright if right direction is taken at the right time. Teaching is re-emerging as an important and increasingly popular career option because of the stability that it offers in these troubled times. Whatever your circumstances, if you are still at school, about to graduate or finishing higher degree in any stream or looking for change of direction, there are newer and more ways to enter the profession than ever before. Teaching is deemed as a noble career. Teaching is a career only for those, who do not hold money in high regard and have passion for knowledge. Genuine interest in the profession is the most important virtue that one must possess. For teachers, learning and teaching are a complementary process. Bright students can choose even professional disciplines like management, engineering, medicine etc. Demand for quality teachers is always high.
No profession is free of challenges. Teachers have to face several hurdles in their careers. The teaching refers to a specific cluster of activities which includes such acts as explaining, demonstrating, questioning and motivating. The process of teaching-learning is as old as human beings on earth. It has been from informal learning to formal learning with the passage of time. The learning is the permanent change in learner’s behavior with the help of effective teaching. True learning is change in personality which if not practiced or reinforced extinct.
The teaching as conventionally understood by traditional people is the act of dissemination of information to the learners in the class rooms. A number of researches have evidenced that teaching is to make the learner realize his/her potential at the fullest. Traditional methods and techniques have been replaced by new methods of teaching and Innovative teaching-learning techniques. Gone are the days when teaching was understood as imparting mere information and when a learner was underrated or underestimated to learn.
Every learner has almost an average I.Q. He/ she can acquire utmost knowledge with self-efforts directed by the teacher. Teaching is to motivate the learners to acquire information, knowledge and skills with self efforts. The teaching must stress self-learning with teacher’s guidance rather than providing instruction to the learner at every step. Role of the teaching is to enable the learner to become self-dependent to explore opportunities. An ideal teacher helps the learner to tremendously use self-senses in order to experience different real life situations.
The process of teaching was carried out by early human beings and even by animals to teach their young ones for successful adjustment in the environment. The process has undergone several changes from informal to formal. Today, the need is to rouse dormant potentialities of learners. Today, the learning can be made efficient and effective with the advent of technological media. Efficiency as a term involves relationship between inputs and outputs in a production process — the underlying notion is that- production is efficient if given inputs produce maximum output. Efficient teaching is that which reduces wastage of learning material — learners (animate human resources- students) and inanimate teaching – learning aids.
Maximum utilization of resources can curtail the wastage. The wastage of resources is in high rate of dropouts, failures and truants of students–learners & the misuse and the unused of teaching- learning aids, The use and misuse of teaching- learning aids are due to lack of knowledge to operate at the part of teacher. How can teaching – learning be made interesting and attractive? Interaction between teacher and student should be intensive and more frequent. It is possible as ratio between student and teacher is less. And highly motivated teachers may make the teaching –learning interested and attractive. High incentives and on the job training can make teachers more motivated and committed. Mobilization of students is a must by motivational techniques.
Utilization of electronically gadgets, as teaching aids as computer, projector and other simulation demonstrative aids can be helpful …
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