A teacher is an individual that assists students by listening, encouraging, and aiding, while supporting them on their learning journey.
Teaching has been and will continue to be the most honourable of all vocations. This is due to the fact that the teacher has to become acquainted with a large number of pupils each year, most of whom are diverse in their qualities, behaviours, and emotions. During their formative years, teachers are actually role models for their students.
A teacher always has a class with a variety of learners, which means the teacher should be experienced in order to meet the expectations of the whole classroom.
Consider Sunitha, a teacher who’s been teaching Math for the last 7 years and is currently engaging with a grade 4 classroom in 2022, a post-pandemic year.
While she strives to teach the kids the way she has in the past, she is finding it extremely difficult to get her students to learn, therefore she decided to record her concerns, which are:
- The pupils have a stunningly limited attention span—sometimes just 3–4 minutes—during a writing task.
- When she uses the board to educate, there is a steady murmur as soon as she begins.
- On-time assignment submission is as low as 20%, and near-complete submission happens only after 2-3 deadline extensions.
- On average, completion of the topic section for the class lags by 2-3 weeks.
- By the end of the academic year, she would have to speed through and ‘finish’ 40% of the portions.
In this situation, Sunitha can obviously tell that her experience is really not helping her in effectively and efficiently engage her class. It is clear that she is not ‘Skilled’ to effectively engage today’s pupils. How can she remedy this?
Sunitha needs upskilling so that she can learn and use strategies to:
- Make the class more engaging by working around the pupil’s short attention span.
- Use the board as little as possible when teaching.
- Make “assignments” a motivating and collaborative activity in which students enjoy the entire learning experience.
- To stay on course for the year, use new approaches to make classroom learning more engaging from a student’s standpoint.
Teachers like Sunitha do need to improve their skills in order to be efficient and teach in these transforming times.
We have studied and produced Dishnakh for Grades Pre-KG through Grade 5, that fulfils NEP 2020’s guidelines and recommendations for engaging, activity-based learning.
Dishankh provides an experiential learning activity-based curriculum which is aligned with NCERT/CBSE and State Board curriculum.
KB School in Dharwad, where the teachers engages students with a role play.
It’s economical.
It includes Teacher Training modules for teacher upskilling.
For further information on the programmes, please contact us at learn@learndigm.com