Innovation is the key to improvement. In current time the obsolete ideologies and methods of teaching do not work. One has to be innovative with teaching and this was highlighted by Joshi and Thomas who wrote an article on Innovations in teacher education. The authors had highlighted the importance of integrated teaching, teacher curriculum and teacher education for rural development. Time is constantly changing and the only way to keep up with it is to keep growing and evolving and this is also applicable to teachers.
In order to relate with children teachers need to keep themselves upgraded with new ways of teaching. For instance if a teacher is not net savvy in current times then he/she cannot make History classes interesting. Today is the age of videos and podcasts and children can easily learn through this interactive media and hence teachers of current India need to keep up with the current technology.
Most of the schools and universities in India have training program for teachers to upgrade their teaching skills. There is no harm in doing that as you should be open to learning new things. Learning never stops all your life, and for teachers to evolve, as a good teacher needs to explore themselves, and try innovative educational measures to teach children.
With internet being so widely used, knowledge is just not restricted to textbooks, children have access to internet and information. In such times if teachers stick with a decade old way of teaching then it’s difficult for children to relate to them. Teachers have to look beyond textbooks and take help from audio and visual aids of teaching to make a subject interesting.
Various seminars and workshops are conducted by the educational boards(CBSE/ICSE/ISC) in India to teach innovative teaching skills to teachers.
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