As a new feature from this edition of Ad Vitam, the editorial group have come up with a concept of creating a forum, as a part of our blog. In this forum, we will have topics raised in the month’s issue being addressed in detail, and we welcome postings and comments on the same by our readers.
TOPIC FOR THIS MONTH:
Changing role and responsibilities of a teacher in a class room environment:
Each one of us have had the best or the worst memories of a teacher having taught us. The topic for this month is centered around discussing the changing role and responsibilities of a teacher in a class room environment.
To participate in this forum, just post your opinion as a comment to this post!
TOPIC FOR THIS MONTH:
Changing role and responsibilities of a teacher in a class room environment:
Each one of us have had the best or the worst memories of a teacher having taught us. The topic for this month is centered around discussing the changing role and responsibilities of a teacher in a class room environment.
To participate in this forum, just post your opinion as a comment to this post!
4 comments:
Anybody remember the Teacher from The Wall?
For those who don't, The Wall is a 1982 film by Pink Floyd full of symbolic imagery and highly metaphorical.
The sardonic cane-wielding Teacher is seen as an instrument in the hands of the fascist state who helps the System churn out batch after batch of unquestioning, mute students.
I think I've had more than a fair share of bad teachers, but the brilliant ones that come along less frequently usually make up for the bad eggs.
Talk. Someone.
Having my fair share of good and bad teachers, I just think that the very idea of a changing role of teachers is incorporated with something that we know as "dynamic society", and as a part of this society, I guess they hardly have a choice.
The question that remains is whether this change, is realised or not. Till today, a bunch of 'forced' deligent students sit in an enclosed room and gain 'knowledge' from the 'mentor' who tells, "make sure you write this answer in the exam, it fetches the maximum marks."
Well the role requires change, whether the change has been realised, or by when will it be realised is a discussion that would remain unanswered, maybe, for a long time!!!
As I believe, the role of teachers should change as you climb higher on the stairs. The problem is when the role of the teachers is the same in your undergraduate classes as your early primary school grader teacher has been. The higher you climb the lesser “spoon-feeding” and more coursework you should require. Isn’t it so?
The people posting in this forum would apreciate the difference between" the changing role of a teacher" and the teaching methodology or the general behaviour of a faculty member.Well restricting the comment to strictly what has been asked for and also to legal education as such, a law faculty should in the first place
realise that they are the part of the legal fraternity(dont we,including teachers really consider that practising advocates or people serving in the profession form a different group, distinct from the academecians) who are specifically serving as acdemecians. So,in short it has to be a dual role..which will ultimately reflect in the teaching methodology and making the fresh graduates more accustomed to the alien climate of a law firm, or the courts, right after graduation.
Secondly, many of us as students have physocological barriers to dislike a subject even before we have entered class rooms or trying to select a more specialised stream, which we usually examine from the point of viwe of pros and cons..for eg. Litigation vs Corporate/Transaction practice vs Acacdemecians.
The teachers in institution of higher learning should rather highlight the brighter side of every stream (which it ll surely have)rather than adopting the same methodology as students. In short,career councelling should be a prolonge, integrated and a component part of imparting legal education itself, rather than delegating it to a different body,just before a student is about to graduate.
Post a Comment