Teach like Champion

The key challenges in the global economy are the universalisation of basic education and ensuring education of good quality, preparing students as a critical and creative thinker to have a horizontal shift away from memorised procedure towards conceptual understanding and problem-solving.

Good teachers strive constantly to imagine how things look from the childís point of view. Vision 2030 needs to reimagine a teacher who plays the role of a learning facilitator and who remains a learner too. Pedagogy is the driver; technology is the accelerator. The focus of this book is the teacher.

The quality of an effective teacher is teacher preparation, classroom management, and study plans. Teachers need to know who their students are and what they bring. Students have multidimensional strength, learning style preferences, multiple intelligence, cultural, and individual life experiences and their instructional needs.

Alfie Kohn (USA), popular educator and parenting expert, systematically examines the usual defence of homework that it promotes higher achievement reinforces learning, and teacher study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the tests of research and logic or experience.

Effective teachers encourage high ability learning to monitor their own learning and progress Effective teachers give feedback in a manner that is supportive and encouraging to students.