Teaching as A Profession - An Overview

Teaching

Teaching is not only a job but a kind of social service. It is said that a teacher creates a good society, and a good society makes a good nation. Especially in India, teachers have been given a very respected name, GURU, which means the one who creates GURUTVA and gives meaning to one's life. Teaching is a process where a teacher gives shape to the talent, persona, and feelings of his/her disciples or students and brings out something extraordinary from the pervasive personalities of his/her students. There was a time in India when Gurukul was everywhere. Students used to be sent over there where they used to live till their teenage and learn all the knowledge and art to live a good, healthy, and great life ahead. Time passed by, and teaching also changed its phases accordingly. Teaching is a great responsibility, and a teacher has to take care of a student in all possible ways and keep a keen eye on developing a student's knowledge and progress.

Methodology:

In the early days, it was entirely in the teacher's hands to mend the student according to his knowledge, but now the scenario has changed, and technology has changed a lot of things. These days, teaching includes critical methodologies such as activity-based learning, active learning, pictorial representation, etc.

Teaching should include a very good eye on each and every type of student in the class, so that progress of each and every student can not only be monitored but also, they can receive help from teachers in all possible ways. During the teaching process, teachers should make all possible arrangements to teach students so that they can understand the topics easily. For example, suppose a teacher will introduce the names of fruits and how to spell them. In that case, he/she must have a pictorial representation of the fruits so that students can have an image when they hear the name of the fruit and remember it as soon as possible. Teaching should be stressless for both teachers and students. Students have to spend 6-7 hrs a day continuously reading, studying, and participating in various activities, so it is necessary that teaching should be jolly and light instead of boring and lengthy.

Teacher-Student Bond:

Teaching while teaching should try to understand the mental state of the students. He/ she should not mock them anytime or should not pass sarcastic remarks and make them feel insulted. The teacher's teaching method should be so interactive and exciting that students should wait for the teacher to enter the class. When the pandemic hit the nation, most students became very happy that they did not have to school anymore, too, for an uncertain time. This happened because our teaching system had become so boring and annoying that no student wanted to attend school anymore. These days, teachers only focus on completing courses, and apart from that, if students repeatedly ask the topic or he/she is not getting the topic, teachers mainly punish them, beat them, etc.

On the other hand, few such good teachers were often missed by students during the pandemic. They also were so attentive to their teaching responsibility that they started online teaching, where they used to provide their content more attractively. These teachers were so bonded with their students that they learned new tech methods to teach online. They started making attractive slide shows with great content and creating a funny and jolly atmosphere while teaching online. Students had no more fear of getting punished; instead, they learned about many technical aspects of online learning and searched for content regarding their study material.

Teaching Should Be Boon, Not Curse:

Teaching should be a boon to the students, not a curse, as most teachers are doing these days. For them, it is just a mere job but a responsibility. Teachers should be affectionate enough to students to make students ask anything. A should have books related to the psychology of students of all age groups instead of sticks of various sizes to beat them. We need a nation where students are enthusiastic about attending school and participating in multiple activities and should fear nothing related to school.