Training in Teaching

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

Training is an essential part of any job to refresh their personnel for a certain job. It helps personnel to make aware about the plans and policies of the organization and to increase the competency of them. It also helps to make them realize their duty and to adopt new means and system to tackle with these problems. So training is essential for any personnel to achieve the goal of the organization.

Mostly, it is necessary in teaching as the teacher teaches students more than 30 years; what the teacher had read would be traditional till the last phase of his career. They should be updated time and again so that they can deliver new trends to the students. If teachers can’t be familiar with new knowledge and technology on time, they can’t deliver it to their students. So training has greater importance in teaching rather than other field. If compare it with other offices, it is different than teaching. In other offices, if the office is going to launch new projects only, the personnel should be trained to make them aware of new techniques and ideas. However, in teaching it needs to refresh teachers timely according to change of time and technology.

The teachers and teaching job are the most hated elements in our country. They haven’t given any priority on the basis of job. The society also can’t recognize the importance of teachers though they realize that education is the only means to put forward their children. We didn’t put education first anytime. Since we don’t focus on education, we are always back in this field. If there is no education, our children can’t get proper education. As a corollary, it hampers the development of the country.

To make education much effective we need to focus on teacher’s training. There are new methods and techniques that we have been dealing in teaching. It has been completely changed these days. From teacher centered methods, it has been changed to student centered methods. So student should be focused understanding the situation of them to provide quality education.

It is said that we should recognize the ability of the students and focus on them according to child centered methods. If so, they would develop interest in reading. If children don’t have interest in reading, it is useless to teach. The training would help to identify such characters which would be fruitful for children and teachers. Though we have resource constrain, we can focus on training so that we can utilize our own knowledge and local resources to make our education effective. Thus the training can also be a means to utilize the local resources and techniques for the teachers.

 Training helps teachers to develop their confidence. I have found that teachers aren’t confident in teaching when there is change in course. Or they have some doubt that the trend change may affect students’ performance. Training builds teachers’ capacity and they would be able to deliver their best to the students. It also assists to build their career when they build up confidence in their life. When they could utilize teaching materials preparing themselves, children could get some more from teaching which is possible building confidence of the teachers.

Training helps to use new techniques of teaching to the teacher. The teachers could handle new techniques as it is essential for students to make familiar to the new world. Training has got such power neither the teaching would be traditional one. Teachers would be able to use different and modern techniques if they have been given training. Only the effective modern teaching methods can change the life of students which is regarded as the quality in education. On the other hand, the world has been running rapidly with new techniques and methods. So the teachers should be able to grasp such ideas to deliver it to the students. If the teacher can’t deliver new things for students according to the demand of time, students don’t have interest in reading. 

The overall aim of training is to improve the teaching of teachers. Though teachers can be perfect in subject matter; if s/he can’t utilize it properly in class; teaching is useless. To make it more reliable we need training which can be panacea to solve the problem of teachers and students. If teachers can’t improve style of teaching according to the changing time, s/he can’t attract the attention of the students. If teachers can’t present latest examples to the students, students have no interest at all. Students would have already known the things which come to the market; and teachers would be back in relation to students.

Training also helps in the introduction of new technology in teaching. By nature children have the habit of knowing new things in their life. To be up-to-date with the subject matter training can be the only solution. If teacher always delivers the old useless materials, children would make fun of them. If s/he has got training to use modern technology, s/he would be able to fulfil the motto of children. The expectation of the children is that their teacher should have mastery over all subjects. So students would take interest in reading.

At last, training helps teachers to develop modern scientific tools or materials. We have recognized science as something new demonic subject matter. If we have trained the teachers, they would be able to develop such materials in their teaching career. On the other hand, teaching is quite responsible job. The teachers should be updated timely so they can deliver better knowledge to the students. It needs timely update of the teachers to make students more interested; training can play vital role in this matter.