Tulsi Prajna 1993 01

SR No.: 524573
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 156
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 9 MB

Page 73

Development of Self-Understanding Through Guidance
67 preliminary stage, the teacher-educator, in this topic, may not only form a logical base for the teaching of more technical items like learning theories, factors affecting learning etc., but may also skilfully generate the spark of Self-understanding in the pupil-teacher with respect to his job-tasks. Appropriate questions at crucial stages may elicit some initial rays of the developmental light of Selfunderstanding within the pupil-teacher. (iv) Teaching Practice
Teaching Practice is perhaps that damaged backbone of our teacher-education programme which has today become the weakest link among the several linkactivities in our teacher-education programmes. Also, it is a painful reality that during this activity, we are not only arresting the needed development of Selfunderstanding among our pupil-teachers, but are also projecting a rather distorted Self-Image of a "Backbone-broken teacher” in his mind! With mechanical lesson-plans, routine supervision remarks, indiscreet use of teaching aids, and formal khanapurtis upto the Final Practical Examinations, we have perhaps made a mockery of our Teaching-Practice Experiences given to prospective teachers:
Perhaps it is here that the Teacher Educator himself need to do a lot of Self analysis before he can guide his pupil towards the coveted goal of SelfUnderstanding. (v) Methodology of Teaching School Subjects . It may be recalled at this stage that Pracice in Teaching is closely related to the Paper on “Methodology of Teaching School Subject". An initial analytic move for the teacher-educator, therefore, may be to start wtih examining his teaching of this paper - from the point of view of developing Self-Understanding among the teacher-pupils. Social history of human development indicates that man, in the continual process of increasing his knowledge about himself in relation to his world, has systematically explored the contents which are found organized in several subject-fields. Hence, every teaching subject has its own value for Self-understanding as well as Self-development. Value of a school subject also forms a teaching item in all Methodology Papers. The Teachereduator may make a more conscious effort to communicate effectively these value of pupil teachers. At this point, I would also like specifically to bring about the potential of teaching a subject not only from the point of view of content matter and related values but also with the aim of developing Self-Understnading among school pupils.
Before our trainees - who will be by now, equipped with knowledge of learning theories as well as several teaching strategies - to go in classrooms for actual teaching practice, the teacher-educators, in their Demonstration Lessons, need to bring out skilfully this potential of teaching a subject to school pupils. While
January-March 1993