Schools exams are different than Competitive Exams.Schools are laboratories of making more innovative and creative mindsets.
High-stakes exams (10th, 12th board) based on narrow performance measures -(499/500 marks in descriptive exam where creative writing constitute approximately 20% marks of a language subjects)- can encourage students to 'Shun This System', negatively impact Learning and disproportionately Punish the marginalized students n teachers too.
The solution is to.....
- Buildup the status of Teachers,
- Make parents more Responsible and
- Make govt absolute Accountable....... This can meaningfully restore already rotten education system.
We also need to.......
'Develop the Self Study Culture among Students'
Don't teach, train, or give tuition until students have not Learned something their own.
Teaching, Tuition, or Training should start only when students already have maxed out their ability to do further Learning (advance study) without training, teaching, or tuition.
To encourage self-learning there should be a pre-test of the chapter before actual teaching starts officially in the class.
- Society, Parents, and Students all should expect their teachers to live a meaningful professional life of a teacher so that 'Status of the Teachers' is elevated in the society. Assuming that the teachers will do that we must start paying greater respect to teachers in advance.
- Parents need to own more 'Responsibility' for preparing their wards as a better student at home first and for school later. Both the parents must engage more with the study of their children in both active and passive ways.
- Education policy should be supportive to the cause of creating a conducive environment of learning, and govt needs to held accountable for that. Failing in doing so should bring govt under the charges of gross negligence and crime against people/society.
Education has nothing much to do with facilities and infrastructure but objects of learning (Students,Teachers, and Parents) needs to be facilitated and build stronger.
Harsch Kumar Lall
Ececutive Leadership and learning Coach
