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Challenges and Issues in Present Education System

India is the largest democracy with remarkable diversity among its population of 1.2 billion which makes up about 17% of the world’s population. Almost 70% of Indian population is rural. The adult literacy rate stands at about 60% and this is significantly lower in women and minorities. Education in India comprises of government, government aided and private institutions of which nearly 40% are government. With the population growth rate of 1.5%, there is tremendous pressure on the education system to provide quality education at affordable price and improve the literacy rate. Education in India faces following primary challenges:

Quality: 

Maintaining

Teaching methods for learning of your child

Many people find teaching children to be rewarding, some will tell you that it’s just plain stressful at times.  What are the best ways to teach kids?  Do the methods and techniques vary across subject manner?  For example, would you use the same approach to teach a child how to tie their shoes as you would how to do multiplication tables?  Probably not.  That being said though, there is no fool-proof way on how to teach kids.  There are several methods and techniques you can use.  Children are versatile.  Before you dedicate yourself to a teaching method, figure out how

HELPING TEACHERS MAINTAIN CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Classroom management is a delicate balancing act often learned through experience and trial-and-error experimentation. Whether you're a new or experienced teacher, effective classroom management strategies are essential for everyone to create positive and successful learning spaces. Effective teachers are passionate about educating their students. They want to spend their time teaching, not dealing with classroom disruptions. Here are some classroom management tips to help teachers settle problems, or prevent them from occurring, so that they can spend more of the classroom hour on teaching and learning.

1. Take Charge of Your Class

Get everyone’s attention before beginning class. That means

Changing the Education System to improve the inner quality of human being

Education plays a great role in the life of everyone all through the life. Getting proper education is very necessary to get success and happy life just like food is necessary for healthy body. It is very important to live luxurious and better life. It develops personality of the people, provides physical and mental standard and transforms people’s living status. It promotes the feeling of physical, mental and social well being by providing better life. Good education is constructive in nature which constructs our future forever. It helps a person to improve his/her status of mind, body and spirit.

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Effectiveness of Smart Classes

Today computers play a big role in education. We hear about smart classes every day. 'Smart Classes' has changed the very concept of learning (classroom teaching). It's an innovative technology that has aimed to revolutionize the way teachers teach and students learn in class. Obviously, this methodology has proved beneficial for the students. "Smart Classes", providing education better through presentations and videos. We all know that if a topic is understood by a visual method, it becomes more beneficial to understand to students. So the demand of using smart classes is being forcefully raised.

Smart Classes replaces traditional teaching method

‘Breakfast’- Improves Learning at School

We all have heard about the importance of breakfast, as the most important meal of the day. But how many of us seriously realize this and take breakfast?  It is a necessity for the body for refueling it needs after a long break of 6-10 hours of break. Breakfast kick-starts the body's metabolism, the process by which the body converts the fuel in food to energy. And when the metabolism gets moving, the body starts burning calories.

The school going children even seldom realize this.  They are the worst hit of not having breakfast. They underestimate the value of breakfast.

Commercialization of Education

Today education has become an important part of everybody's life. It is must in today's environment. Due to new technologies and globalization the growth of education industry is growing. Education is been given and taken more seriously nowadays due to high competition in educational area. Teachers and students are trying their level best to get updated all the time and both are trying to provide quality work so that the education system can produce good talent. Education system has developed more and more than the previous times and it is one of the leading systems in the world. Education is

Skill - Based education

The traditional form of learning that is widely prevalent in India is knowledge based learning where the emphasis lies on facts and information. You are given a list of things to remember and that is the extent of your learning. While there is some element of practical application involved, that too is highly theoretical wherein you know where the concepts you study are applied but you have no idea how exactly.

This form of learning does have its own benefits. For one, your scope of understanding is much wider and also, since you have a theoretical understanding of the governing

Teacher-Centered philosophies

Teacher-centered philosophies of education require that children are educated using certain methods put into action by their teacher, as opposed to student-centered philosophies, in which teaching methods are formed according to the needs and learning styles of individual students. In short, teacher-centered philosophies force the student to adjust to the teacher; with student-centered philosophies, the teacher adjusts to the student. Essentialism and perennialism are the two teacher-centered philosophies.

Essentialism

An essentialist curriculum is structured to develop discipline and a common culture of knowledge. Essentialists value deep knowledge on a few core subjects, as opposed to more general knowledge on a

Do grades do any good

Every parent wants to boast that his or her child is “a straight A student,” “at the top of her class,” or “on the honor roll.” What generally determines this prized status? Grades. Most often, report cards are the primary means of measuring a child’s progress through school. Doing “well” in school is measured by a series of letters on a piece of paper: A is great; B is ok; C, not so great; and D or F? You’re grounded! Some parents reward children for good grades, ascribing a monetary value to each good letter, or taking away privileges for