Thursday, 24 October 2013

Changing contours of classrooms in modern time

Buzzing     mobile      phones  on        silent mode,  Polyphonic   ringtones with bizarre songs, cacophonous whispers, heads muffled with headphones , popping eyes glued to screen of laptops and nimble fingers adroitly browsing WebPages decks the desks of modern classrooms dotted with self proclaimed genius  students.  In between stands a poor teacher making frantic efforts to make some sense through his lectures to the students hoping that it will impart some insights to them and will render them illuminated and enlightened one. Pitted against this superlative degree of teacher’s piousness, student’s approach is punctuated with an undercurrent of apathy and sheer indifference where they fail to reciprocate at all. Is it not an act of disgrace and defilement where even portal of knowledge instead of being sanctified through the resonance of thought provoking lectures, is stigmatized because of flimsy and fallacious teaching pedagogic skill of a teacher? Is it not a pointer towards the fact that modern day’s student being starved of ethical values are enticed to disrupt  the smooth functioning of the classes out of the gear and relish to make the classroom bedlamite by their  profligate  acts that goes beyond all limits of decency and decorum ? Let’s leave our mudslinging habits of ascribing the very reasons that leads to fixation of onus either on students or the teachers. What is desperately desiderated is an act of putting ourselves on bedrock of self introspection that will suffice enough to spell out reasons that has led to the fizzled and fragile status of our educational edifice. Attuning student’s mind with curriculum aimed to augment their lore remains the avowed goal of any teacher but, at times teachers cut a sorry figure and fail to leave indelible imprints on student’s mind through their tautological and banal lectures tempered with monotony .Such lectures fail to stir student’s mind as these are not loaded with wealth of erudite details. What further aggravates the condition is teacher’s antiquated style of teaching and enfeebled communicative skills. Teachers owe more onerous obligatory duties towards students as they are saddled by the society to mould student’s mind and pack it with moralistic impulses .They have to set exemplary examples of extraordinary expositional teachings;should be larded with brilliant insights and sparkling wits. If such high degree of teaching techniques are espoused and enforced by our teachers then obviously anarchic condition of our classrooms can be substantially remedied otherwise; propulsion of steep decline will further deteriorate the conditions. It is up to discretion of teaching community that whether they want to be adored by their students or to be thrown into limbo of oblivion for betraying their students just because of not establishing empathetic bond with them.



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