Teacher Training - Ideal & Reality

Does the training that teachers receive match the realities they face? 

Teachers have the great responsibility of shaping a child's growth and career. It can take a few months or even 1-2 years to learn everything that there is about education and almost 7-8 years of teaching in a classroom to become an effective teacher. Ideally, courses designed by institutions have a curriculum prepared for teachers that terminate with a teaching internship program that trains them for the real classroom experience.

The current teaching training system in India is unable to bridge the gap between the ideal and the reality. Lack of proper training, technology integration, and poor selection process to attract good teachers leads to substandard teaching-learning outcomes. As per the government, 1 in 6 elementary school teachers are not professionally trained in India, and currently, over 5 lakh untrained teachers are employed in schools. In 2015-16, of 6.6 million teachers employed at the elementary level, 1.1 million were untrained. Of these, 512,000 were in government and aided schools and 598,000 in private schools.

Two salient areas for teachers' training include working on subject knowledge and pedagogical skills. Teachers need to train in the subject concepts and their real-life applications. The essential pedagogical skills include - understanding how children think, strategies to help them learn and assess their learning, and dealing with a diverse learning group in the classroom. We at EducoHire have started with an initiative EducoTrain to help teachers to bridge the gap between the ideal and the reality.

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