MANAGEMENT
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Brilliant Teaching – A Thought inside the Box
There is a little-known
phenomenon called ‘Campbell’s Law’. This law states that everybody knows what
is getting used to amount progress.
We all are aware that test scores are
important. And, because everyone knows it, student performance is subject to
deformation. Rather than trying to work out a way to make time for music,
creativity, joy fun and also the arts, teachers can become hyper-focused on
boosting test scores. Head teachers feel the compression, this gets passed on
to teachers and, in turn, the scholars are sweatshop farmed to induce high scores
so everyone can the wrath of failure.
Campbell’s Law suggests
we can expect shortcuts and cheating every step of the way. Understandably,
teachers get caught during a cycle of,’How can we deliver the syllabus the
fastest?’, ‘How can we revise the Best?’; ‘How can information be retained the
longest?’; ‘How can we boost the scores?’
However, if we want kids to experience a
sense of wonder and discover new information on their own, If we want them to
generate their own ideas and if we want them to derive their own perspective
and conclusions after an interaction session, then maybe we are defining ‘success’
in a wrong way. When test scores become the purpose of the teaching process,
they lose their ethics as barometer of educational status and fudge the
educational process in undesirable ways.
If teachers want to demolish a child’s love of a
topic, make it required for them to follow precise guidelines about what they
have to know and what is immaterial. Make them learn it again and again. And
then make this a practice that is to do again and again. Teachers should not
answer extraneous questions which will steal time away from the ubiquitous
syllabus. The result will be that too few subjects have time for captivate.
Most of the teachers feel restraint by the
syllabus. Yes, it has to be covered, but not choked. Build in Imaginative and
creative ways of engaging your learners and, as if by magic, they will continue
to learn in their own time.
THIS IS BRILLIANT TEACHING!
AUTHOR:
MONIKA RANI JAIN
Deptt. of Management Studies