Teachers’ role in quality education
Md. Zillur Rahaman :
Education is a very important component for the development of a country. The higher the rate and quality of education in a country, the more advanced the country is economically. When a large part of the students who have passed secondary and higher secondary are failing in the public university entrance examination, then naturally the question of quality education arises. Not only this, our country’s universities are also lagging behind global standards due to quality education and research, which is really questioning and worrying our education system.
Quality education is not limited to teachers, schools, books, students or classrooms, nor is it a procedural element. Because quality education is considered a prerequisite for holistic development, with which the activities of the school are closely related. Qualitative education helps students to develop various moral and spiritual inherent qualities. On the one hand, it encourages children to become scientific and cultured from superstition, on the other hand, it boosts the confidence of the students, and drives the students towards higher education by acquiring the right skills and marginal qualifications. It is important to make students suitable for further education including subject knowledge, development of life skills, qualitative change of attitude and making them socially conscious.
Acquiring work and life oriented education is quality education in real sense. National Education Policy-2010 states that education should be made creative and application oriented to achieve economic and social progress of the country. Students should be able to acquire skills in vocational education with respect to and interest in labor and employability at various levels of education. But creative education system has been introduced in our country without proper infrastructure and training of teachers. As a result, this has led to the situation in hotchpotch and many say that it has become a factor of quantity rather than quality of education. Moreover, it is necessary to think how much our universities are offering higher degrees in real life. In the educational institutions of our country, more emphasis is being given to moral or theoretical education instead of practical and operational education.
The high aspirations that develop in the youth after getting higher education, when they are not able to fulfill it, create a frustration in them. Recently students are becoming interested in studying technical education. Agriculture, animal husbandry, pottery, weaving, fishing, etc., are not small jobs that we have to teach our children through the education system. There is a Japanese saying, “If you give me a fish, you have given me a meal. But if you teach me how to fish, you’ve set me up to eat fish for the rest of my life.”
The role of the teacher is paramount in improving the quality of education. Teachers also have the responsibility to make parents aware. A teacher must be sincere to fulfill the duties of a teacher. Teachers should come forward with compassion and at the same time ensure proper remuneration and other benefits in return. The teacher should work towards the change of the society. The quality of education will depend on the ability, techniques and skills of the teachers in the modern method of regular and proper teaching and learning in the classroom. There is no substitute for quality education to take any country to the path of development. Regular, fair, advanced and systematic teaching of teachers in classrooms is recommended to ensure the quality of education.
Teaching is a role model for other professions. A teacher is a craftsman and conscience of society and nation building. Therefore, we need a group of qualified and dedicated teachers to achieve quality education. Achieving quality education is possible depending on education management, education administration, qualified teaching staff and curriculum. The quality of education will be ensured only by creating the innovation of quality teaching with the creativity and intelligence of the teachers in the classroom. The goodwill, willingness and sincerity of the teachers in the classroom are enough. A teacher’s life philosophy will be a beacon for the country, nation and society. Teachers should be self-governing and be driven by conscience. Teachers will have excellent innovative ability to meet students’ self-realization needs.
Quality and standard education ensures the country’s economic prosperity by creating a productive, skilled human group with social values and ethics, creating an atmosphere of justice, non-discrimination social system, cooperation and tolerant attitude. Good education is capable of ensuring social peace and stability by stimulating physical fitness, creativity and innovation. The main means of ensuring quality education is the recruitment of qualified or talented teachers. To improve the quality of education, quality teachers with good educational qualifications should be recruited on a transparent basis. Provision of basic and subject-specific training for all teachers, in-service training for in-service teachers and at the same time to ensure proper status of teachers must be guaranteed with adequate salaries and guarantee of their fundamental rights and professional freedom.
(The writer is a banker).
