Exploring the Role of Teachers in Changing Educational Scenario from Teacher Centric to Child Centric Education

Abstract

Education is the key for the growth and development of any nation and teachers are also the backbone of any education system. Teachers are responsible for the holistic development of students. Overall holistic development cannot be achieved in a single day, it requires professional skills and patience of teachers to inculcate all necessary skills in students. Making such capable and skilful teachers is a challenge for every education system, especially in India where Bachelor of Education do not hold much importance among masses. For the past few decades the number of teacher training institutions has increased drastically, but their quality of teacher training decreased even more drastically. Earlier teachers were the centre of education in the classroom, almost every policy and guideline were totally focused on teachers for education. But with changing time and education scenario, are policy makers realise this mistake and begin to focus on ‘Child Centric Education’. Even during Covid-19 lockdown the role of teachers changed drastically. New education policy 2020, also focuses on Childs and education. This paper tries to analyse the role of teachers in this changing educational scenario, whether the teachers are able to achieve the goal of child centric education or not.