The Progressive Teacher Vol 06 Issue 01

WE NEED TO
CHANGE THE WAY
WE LOOK AT THINGS
Roli Tripathi
Embedding social-emotional learning
into the classrooms will make curriculum
more significant. For this, counselling
should be provided to children from preprimary
to senior classes.
“
Don’t limit a
child to your
own learning,
for he was
born in another
time.
-Tagore
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As humans, we can never
detach ourselves from
posterity. Our actions, dreams
and our plans are all futurecentric.
It’s imperative to understand
that education can’t be kept away from
the realm of new acceptances. There is a
need of futuristic schools that redefine the
process of education. A changed pedagogy
and technology is required alongside a
prosperous and constructive school climate.
We must have a goal that directs our
thoughts, liberates our energy and
inspires our hopes. Strong leadership,
monitoring of students’ progress,
a coherent curriculum and teacher
collaboration are the factors affecting the
effectiveness of educators.
“For relational trust to develop and be
sustained,” say Byrk and Schneider,
“both staff and students must be able
to make sense of their work together in
terms of what they understand as the
primary purpose of the school: Why are
we really here?”
We are at the precipice of a digital
revolution that will change every aspect
of our lives, with a global computer fabric
changing the way we interact, work and
live. The way students in India consume
educational content is transforming due
to technological invasion. Learning
should be made fun. Students should
learn about real-world issues and topics,
rather than individual subjects. By
learning the subjects through discovering
real-world contexts students get the tools
they need to function in the real world.
The use of virtual reality (VR) in
education is a revolutionary step. VR
gives immediacy and control created by
immersion: the feeling of “being there”.
VR simulated objects can be heard,
smelled, touched, hefted, and explored
in many sensory ways, increasing the
students’ cognitive abilities. Vygotsky’s
theory states that the social context is
important to the acquisition of domestic,
vocational, and communication skills
that can increase a child’s ability to do.
A child can be gauged by his ability to
engage with abstract concepts.