While speaking at a view-exchange meeting titled "Improving the quality of education" organised by Pabna Edward College Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni said that the role of teachers is getting changed in the new education curriculum. The role of teachers will not be limited to classrooms as they'll also work as facilitators and guides. Learning will be enjoyable according to the new curriculum. There will be no fear of examination and the curriculum will be based on experience, Dipu Moni said.
It is disheartening to note that the issue of teachers’ training is often being overlooked by the departments concerned in Bangladesh. Thousands of teachers are recruited every year and sent straight to classrooms without any training. This doesn't happen in most other countries.
There must be a policy clarifying
what training a teacher must
undergo to impart
education as professional
Reports tell us that over 40 per cent of our high schools cannot prepare creative questions and 55 per cent of teachers of primary schools do not understand critical education methods. Such a huge number of unskilled teachers are deteriorating the quality of education being imparted to students across the country. We must address the urgency of incorporating new training institutes and improving the functions of the existing ones.
Teachers are professionals who require multiple skills to do their job, and accordingly we should also emphasize building professional standards into teacher training programmes. There must be a policy clarifying what training a teacher must undergo to impart education as professional. There is no substitute to building a robust pre-service teacher education system to help the country resolve the issue of the capacity of new teachers joining the schooling system. It is teachers who alone can contribute to build a healthy academic sphere for a nation to grow.
Question leak, unskilled teachers and inconsistency between the education system and job sector, low budgetary allocation are the main factors overwhelming our education sector for long. Many young students in Bangladesh, as in other low and middle-income countries, find it hard to get good jobs because of the sheer inconsistency between the education system and job market. The country should address this crisis by investing more in education and ensuring effective utilization of the investment.
