How many teachers in India start their careers understanding the context of the school? Teachers must understabnd their students first and then only they can plan for their teaching activities.
As a teacher it is essential to cater to the learning needs of all the students in the class. How would you suggest teachers ensure that students from diverse backgrounds, with different abilities are engaged in the class?
Given your experience as a teacher and the development in communication and technology, what do you feel could be added to teacher-preparation programs to make them more holistic/effective?
How should teachers inculcate in students a sense of self-discipline without resorting to external forms of discipline? How can teachers bring about order without punishment?
With all the classes and extra-curricular activities that need to be fit in to a student's day, if you had to take a decision to drop a period which one would you choose? What are the criterion you would be considering to reach the decision?
With the recently introduced educational reforms, the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE), teachers were intensively trained and a sincere effort was made to break away from the system of assessment based solely on examinations. Having implemented the CCE since, what are the challenges we, as teachers, are facing? What goes into the implementation of the CCE? And how can we practise it effectively?
Are certain individuals born to be teachers and can only those be truly competent? Or can people without such aspirations develop to become ‘great teachers’? Are there certain conditions, the presence of which foster such development?