CASE STUDY ON UNTRAINED TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS (ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS) IN JIND AND HISAR DISTRICTS OF HARYANA

Abstract

Education is the means of self-realisation and self expression. It helps bringing out the best in a person. It promotes physical, intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual development of human beings. Education is felt essential for success of democracy and for bringing about desirable changes for all round development. Centre and state governments are doing lot of efforts to raise educational standards, despite lot of interventions the desired quality in education is yet not achieved. There are many shortcomings and imbalances. Not only social and economic inequalities are responsible for this, skilled and trained human resource is also lacking. I did survey in some rural and urban schools of Haryana (especially Jind and Hisar districts) to know the various aspects of pre-primary and primary schooling. In the research work I have included the untrained teacher resource, school infra, teaching learning materials and various teaching methodologies used in rural and urban schools and other aspects of pre-primary and primary schooling. In my survey I found that teachers blame poor parenting for dismal learning standards in schools. But according to me poorly trained teachers and social attitudes is the real problem. Teaching methodologies followed by teachers are still old. Innovative and creative teachers are lacking in all schools. Some teachers even don't know the exact definition of teaching methodologies. Learning attitude is missing from teacher side, but is expected from student side. D.Ed. or B.Ed. course don't prepare the teacher for real classroom teaching. In job teacher training session should be conducted on regular basis to train teacher for multi grade teaching methodologies. Cognitive development based, joyful and structured elementary curriculum is missing in all the schools.