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IMPROVING THE INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

Category : Teachers and Training, Institution

While we all understand how crucial education is to shape our lives, it has also been a major problem in our country. There are several issues that the Indian education system is grappled with. We cannot deny the fact that the Indian government and institutions have been working to reform the existing education model. However, there are still issues which are required to be taken care of.

Here are 7 recommendations that can strengthen our education

Rote learning
We have progressed with time; however, we still have not been able to move away from rote learning. While we know that IB schools are changing the education system at their level, we also need to understand that the population that goes to IB schools is very limited in nature. Not everyone can afford the education system that they offer. Hence, the government needs to take the baton in their hands and eradicate rote learning from the schools at all the levels. The schools must be encouraged to introduce conceptual learning so that students do not just memorize what they are being taught. Understanding the concepts better, they will also be able to retain and apply them better.

Evaluation System
Marks still continue to play the most important card in deciding the future of children and this often comes down upon students as a burdening factor. The pressure of marks often makes students underperform. Instead of focusing the evaluation on a three-hour exam, the focus of evaluation should be multi-pronged; classroom participation by a student, submission of projects, communication and leadership skills and extra-curricular activities. This system will help students give their best and be evaluated at their best.

Equal importance to all subjects
We continue to survive in the education system where science stream topples the stream hierarchy. Students’ minds are programmed like machines to prioritize on high-profile subjects and subjects like languages, communications and arts are looked down as low-profile subjects. Students should rather be pushed to pursue the subject that they like instead of creating a differentiation between subjects.

Better Training of Educators
Teachers play the most important role in schools. After all, they are shaping the future of the nation, the children. Teachers are often considered as second parents. Hence teachers are to be given the best-in-class training programs that empower them to take the role of parents and counsellors in addition to teaching. Such training programs will help them create a congenial and home-lie atmosphere where students can feel the empathy and love in the classroom and which can then be reflected in their behaviours.

Introduction of Technology
We all know we are born in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. We are living the renaissance of technology and hence, technology and education system cannot be kept apart. Students must have ample exposure to technology-based learning right from their early years so that they become more creative and more skilled in adapting to the ever changing learning platforms of this modern era. Indian schools must embrace technology enabled education right now to be well equipped in imparting the best to the students enrolled with them.

Personalize Education
Indian education needs to realize that the absorption power of every student cannot be the same. Hence, the teaching method also cannot remain the same for every student say, in a class of 30. Some students have faster learning pace and some are slow learners. While it is not humanly possible for a single teacher to pay attention to every student, they can be assisted and well equipped with modern technology applications like artificial intelligence and chat bots to enhance their shop floor performance and personalize education to each child under their care. Country.

Teach them the purpose of education
Our education system is still having the features what colonial educators have inbuilt. Education is not always about becoming a big, rich person. It should be about humanism. Students must also be taught about moral life and inculcated with humanistic values. They should learn that life is much beyond amassing wealth and success is not measured with money.

These are some humble suggestions which can refine and improve our education system which will in turn help achieve goal of education which is nothing but creating good citizens for our country.