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Ever since the govt. is coming forward with education policies, the most important focus is learner centred education. But in practice it is still a far cry. Our education, teaching practices, strategies seem to be dogmatic and obsolete. Perhaps the reason is lack of proper professional development programmes for teachers. Most of our teachers do not possess necessary knowledge, skills and attitude to provide quality education. They teach in their own style and hardly make efforts to sharpen their saw. The professional courses for teachers have failed to produce real teachers. If a detailed study is conducted to analyse this, it will certainly find that more than 70 percent of them are teachers  by chance and not by choice. This is perhaps very unfortunate for our education. We need teachers who opt the profession by choice.  Research, experience and studies reveal that there are three important requirements for the teachers to teach effectively. Knowledge, skill and attitude....
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Value education

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It is perhaps the most challenging and critical time for all of us when  the entire world is fighting with Corona. Most of the parents except the corna fighters must be at home with their siblings. Let us all utilize the quality time to imbibe good values in them. I would like to suggest the following for their value orientation.
1. Remember that values can not be taught but are caught. Values filter downward from parents to children and teachers to taught. Parents and teachers not having a strong value base can not instil the desired values in their children and students. Let us strive hard to build up our value Base during these days by reading moral stories, good literature, listening to music that leads to positivity, watching informative and educative films/serials and of course avoiding fake news/messages.
2. Keep the children gainfully busy in constructive activities including reading, writing, drawing, painting, gardening, as well as some household works.
3.The children should be asked to read the letter written by Abraham Lincoln to the  teacher of his son and the letters written by Pt. Nehru to his daughter. You find a number of values there.
3. Don't hold others responsible for not imbibing good values in your children. There is no prescribed curriculum for value education. It is rather hidden. The children learn the same from their parents, teachers, seniors and elders.
 5. Tell them the importance of five fundamental values preached and taught by every religion ie truth, love, peace, nonviolence and righteous conduct. Popularly known as satya, prem, shanti, ahimnsa and dharma,. all other allied values are directly or indirectly related to these. The NCERT has identified 84 such values to be imbibed in youngsters. Such as honesty, sincerity, punctuality,responsibility, cleanliness, sharing, caring, patriotism etc. By citing small examples and by being a role model for the children these values can be instilled.
6. Remember ,there is never a bad child but a bad parent. Catch them young to build  a strong value base.

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