Quality education through good teacher and innovative teaching*

Researcher: Baradiya Pankajkumar D.

(M.Sc. (Maths), M. Ed.)

Lecturer, Smt. S. D. Mehta Mahila B.Ed. College, Dhrol

E-mail: pdbaradiya@gmail.com

Abstract
This paper has been tried to explain quality education. Quality education can be achieved
through good teacher and innovative teaching. Good teacher and innovative teaching are very
necessary for the improvement of education system.

To sum up, the teacher should have keen interested in subject, pupil, and teaching
methods. He should be good subject motivator and able to handle technology. He should be able
to handle group of the student. He should be creative and innovative person and able to know
individual differences among the student.

Innovative teaching consists of the following points: subject matter, psychological law,
biological law, good environment, and classroom management.

* Paper presented in state level conference organized by T. N. Rao college of Teacher Education
& NAAC on dated 19th April 2009
 Quality education through good teacher and innovative teaching*
Researcher: Baradiya Pankajkumar D.

(M.Sc. (Maths), M. Ed.)

Lecturer, Smt. S. D. Mehta Mahila B.Ed. College, Dhrol

E-mail: pdbaradiya@gmail.com

Introduction
Education is not a Cup of Tea for everybody. John Dewey, undoubtedly the world’s most
renowned living educator defines education as follows1:

“….education is a constant reorganizing or reconstructing of experience. It has all the

time an immediate end, and so far as activity is educative, it reaches that end-the direct
transformation of the quality of experience. Infancy, youth, adult life, - all stand on the same
educative level in the sense that what is really learned at any and every stage of experience
constitutes the value of that experience, and in the sense that it is the chief business of life at
every point to make living thus contribute to an enrichment of its own perceptive meaning”.

We thus reach a technical definition of education: “It is that reconstruction or

reorganization of experience which adds to the meaning of experience, and which increases
ability to direct the course of subsequent experience”.

Innovative teaching and good teacher are very necessary for the improvement of
education standard.

* Paper presented in state level conference organized by T. N. Rao college of Teacher Education
& NAAC on dated 19th April 2009
Quality of Good Teacher

Interest
in subject

Interest in pupil

Good subject motivator

Attention to Individual differences

Team work

Teaching methods

Knowledgeable

Use of new technology approach

Innovative person

Acceptable by society
1. Interest in subject

Teacher must be interested in own subject. So that teaching process is not buffling for
him.

2. Interest in pupils

Teacher will be interested in pupils. Teacher should know individual difference between
two pupils. For example, one pupil is interested in drawing while other pupil isn’t
interested in drawing. But he has interest in maths.

3. Good subject motivator

Teacher should motivate student in each and every conditions. He should not only teach
subject mater but he should play role of motivator.

4. Attention to Individual differences

Teacher should pay attention to individual differences between two pupils – One pupil is
a scholar while other pupil is a dull.

5. Team work

Team work among the teacher and student lead to good result. Team work must be
efficiently in education system.

6. Teaching Methods

Teacher should be aware of different teaching methods. He should be able to select

appropriate teaching methods. It should be simple, understandable and creative.
7. Knowledgeable

Teacher should have deep knowledge of child psychology, individual difference, and
biological law. He should be able to know attitude of student.

8. Use of new technology approach

Today’s world is a full of technology. In each and every field, we find new technology.
For education, chalk and board is not enough for the teaching system. Teacher and
Educator should use technology. It will make education easy, interesting and result
oriented.

9. Innovative person

Teacher should be an innovative person. He should be flexible. He should accept all new
changes. He should ready to learn various things. So, in this way he creates his innovative
personality.

10. Acceptable by society

The role of teacher in society is very important. He is respectable, honest, hard worker
and future creator of nation
Innovative Teaching

Innovative teaching is required following points.

Subject Matter
Psychological law
Biological law
Good environment
Classroom management

1. Subject Matter

It method may be called the vehicle of instruction, subject – matter may be labeled the
cargo of instruction. To load an efficient vehicle with worthless cargo would, of course, be
absurd; to use efficient methods in the teaching of worthless subject matter would be equally
absurd. Another of the necessary requisites, therefore, for effective teaching is desirable subject
matter. This will meet the needs of pupils and of adults in a complex and rapidly changing
civilization.

The recent slogan, “Teach children rather than subject-matter,” is as fallacious as would
be the opposite slogan, “Teach subject-matter rather than children”; in sober fact, both subject-
matter and children must be taught.

2. Psychological law

Learning process is very complex – that it is one of the most baffling things in the world.
Although experimentation and other types of investigation have provided much information
regarding the way in which the human mind works, even the Solomon’s of the profession are
still far from knowing the exact way in which it works and the (stimuli) which make it work best.
Probably the most valuable discovery of psychological investigations has been concerning the
nature and extent of individual differences.
 3. Biological law

He must also know and follow the best biological laws. He must know more than how the
mind works; he must know how the whole human organism works. He must realize that the
whole child comes to school, and not merely the mental nature of the child. He should know that
anything which affects one part of the organism also affects every other part of the organism.

4. Good environment

The most effective learning can take place only when the environmental setting is best.
This means, among other things, that the school plant, namely, the site, building, and equipment
must be adequate, safe, sanitary, comfortable, and attractive. Over many-probably most-of these
details school officials rather than teachers have control.

For example, teachers can suggest that shades be secured for the windows, that desks be
placed so that the light will enter from the left side of the room, that an adequate and wholesome
water supply be made available, and that desks be secured which fit or are adjustable to the size
of the pupils.

5. Classroom management

Closely related to proper school and classroom environment is effective classroom

management. For the details of classroom management the teacher is almost wholly responsible.
Among the more important details of classroom management for which the teacher is largely or
wholly responsible are the following ; providing for the proper seating of the pupils; arranging
for the pupils to pass to and from the classroom and the building at noon, recesses, and other
school intermissions; checking of attendance; providing for the distribution, administration, and
supervision of educational supplies and equipment; arranging for fire drills; and in general,
making certain that everything in the classroom proceeds without confusion, friction, and other
waste.
Conclusion
It is said that charity begins with home. We are talking about quality education. Who will
start quality education? It is our responsibility to start quality education. We should not depend
upon any institute, government and NGO. There should be proper mechanism of identifying
innovative teachers and attracting them to the teaching profession. This should follow the proper
training ranging from psychological aspects to the using high tech teaching methods. The
persons entering in the teaching profession without natural urging for teaching must be stopped.
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