Peeping into the learner's mind is the biggest problem for the teacher. Once teacher understands this, learning becomes a solution.
What process does one adapt to understand the learner’s
mindset?
Well! Let’s see some.
The fundamentals of differentiating the subject is of
primary importance – The learner’s difficulty may be in
1. Language
a.
Confusing alphabets
b.
Confusing words
c.
Deciphering sentences
d.
Meaning of words
e.
Correlation of words in sentences
2. Numeracy
a.
Identification of Numbers or operators
b.
Multiplication tables
c.
Mathematical terms and their relations
d.
Properties and their applications
e.
Volume of theorems
3. Sciences
a.
Clarity of concepts
b.
Absence of visual thinking
c.
Correlation to abstract thinking
d.
Language influences
e.
Practical nature of minuscules
4. Social sciences
a.
Confused concept of time and money
b.
Absence of Community awareness
c.
Ignorant of cultural functionalities
d.
Lack of spatial awareness
e.
Overprotective care and nurturing
Excellent students lack clarity in thought due to the fault
of both parents as well as teachers.
Students are born thinkers, they are tuned to question everything that
helps them learn. Unfortunately, both schooling and parenting puts a full stop
towards this inquisitive growth. This is
not intentional, this happens along the with the process of formal learning
which promotes only ‘silent listening’. When questions become difficult to answer,
parents either ignore or ask children to ‘shut up’, resulting in hideous
attitude among the children. Shunning
away from student questions or more focus on academic input without providing scope
for thinking leads to ‘listening without understanding’
behaviour among students in classes. The concept of ‘flipped classrooms’
emerged a long time ago. However, its actual implementation has met with lots
of blocks among teachers as well as parents.
The current teaching-learning methods, the student loses
both interest and curiosity in learning.
The main two reasons for this are non-adaptability of teachers into the
learning process and the loss of glamour towards the teaching field.
Those in teaching profession do not provide scope for learning and learner conditions. The lessons designed is for providing the knowledge rather than understanding the learner ability to decipher the knowledge provided. How many such learner problems are addressed in your classrooms?
Earning has become the key note of an average adult who is
into ‘job-seeking’. The
terminologies like ‘patience’, ‘experience’, ‘step-by-step growth’ are too
rudimentary for today’s job seekers. The
end result being competition for lucrative job offers, money-making and
luxurious life style. This tradition
results in a major loss for the next generation.
Where passion takes the back seat and finance, the driver
the route leads to depression. This is
phenomenally observed in today’s world.
Education driven by the hypothetical theory that ‘money leads to happiness’
directs the system which is bound to build ‘future
healthy citizens’ of the world towards more ‘money-mindedness’ rather than living with ‘interest’ and ‘curiosity’. Learner blues become more predominant in such
a learning system.
Diversion of passion towards learning is a more intelligent system. Creative works are adaptive, however, when teacher is unable to correlate and build learning on learner interest, learning tends towards failure.
Building the curve towards interest is where the learner
blue nullifies. Education needs to build
the positive curve. The base line ‘Education
for life’ is to be promoted rather than ‘Education for earning’. When the focus changes learner blues become greener
towards learning. Building greener
pastures for a better world is the prime focus of the 21st
century.
