"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
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 child’s 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.
Krishna Swaroop Prasad
K.S. Prasad served as Vice-Principal, Netarhat Residential School; Principal, DAV School, Patratu, Begusarai; Chairman of SGBMS, Ranchi; Educational Adviser/Consultant, Barauni Refinery, I.O.C.
He has organised various NCERT, national integration camps; is a resource person for the training of primary and secondary teachers selected from twelve states of India in groups through SCERT and NCERT; has prepared project reports for co-ed senior secondary residential school, Bihar with Ed. C.I.L (India) Ltd, Govt of India; worked as a member of the evaluation sub-committee for instructional material in Dallas.
He has participated in NCTM, San Antonio, as an official delegate for the development of Science and Mathematics teaching. He has been invited as a guest speaker at the Greater Council of Teacher of Mathematics, annual meeting; and, has to his credit more than fifteen education-related broadcasts on All India Radio.
He taught in the USA through Fulbright Teacher Exchange Programme and got appreciation from the United States Commissioner of Education and other appreciation of mementoes/plates from NOBA, DAV, and other societies, one of which was awarded by the Governor of Jharkhand.
He has travelled the world over to countries like the UK, USA, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka and visited the school there.
He received the prestigious National Award of Teachers from the then President of India Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma.
