Role Of Teachers In Creating Participative Learning Environment

Abstract

Teachers are leaders in the classroom. They are instructors, managers, role models inside the classroom. The onus of achieving learning outcomes lies with the teachers. It is acclaimed that teachers are responsible for results achieved by students. In the current times, when classroom climate has changed inadvertently due to the entry of technology in teaching learning, the task of teachers has also undergone a paradigm shift, where now teachers are to act as facilitators of learning not as a medium of transmitting knowledge. Accessibility to learning resources have increased. In the changing times when it is being asserted that teaching should be learner centric, teacher has a major role to play in the modern context. Curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and student support are focal points of quality education and in all these aspects teacher can play an important and central role. When planning curriculum teachers can work according to the needs at grassroot level. Pedagogical interventions can be made learner centric by utilizing specific local anecdotes in teaching learning. ICT interventions in classroom can help improve teaching learning outcome. Subject specific pedagogical techniques should be employed. Teachers should use technology to share resources and use classroom time for more meaningful discussion. Use technology to enhance communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking in classroom. This becomes more important in which we have to train the learners to become life -long learners as envisaged in NEP 2020. Similarly adopting innovative practices to assess learning is the call of the day. In the same context, when we say that formative assessment should be employed so the teachers’ role becomes all together more important. In nut shell teachers’ role is holistic in nature, playing important role in the classroom and beyond.