With the changing world and changing mindsets, school teaching and learning has changed to a great extent. It is so encouraging and exciting to see that with increasing technological support and availability of information to all of us, present day classrooms and teachers have become much better equipped and there is a whole lot of zestful involvement of learners in gathering knowledge, learning skills, becoming more creative and learning at varied pace.
Under the present scenario, pedagogy demands our consistent effort to evolve scientific teaching methods. It must involve the use of scientific tools or Teaching Learning Material (TLM) without which neither teaching nor learning is possible. In this article, I will talk about the experiences of my life as a student as well as a teacher and also share my understanding that changed in course of time.
Are certain individuals born to be teachers and can only those be truly competent? Or can people without such aspirations develop to become ‘great teachers’? Are there certain conditions, the presence of which foster such development?