Reasons behind poor quality of teachers

  • Current teachers training in India is unable to cover tough spots and follows a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach.
  • India is dealing with a scenario of significant teacher vacancies, which are to the tune of almost 60-70 per cent in some states.
  • there are over one lakh single-teacher schools present across the country.
  • Increased workload on the teachers (Mid-day meal, election duty etc.) and not following standard Teacher student ratio (1:30).
  • Absence of proper monitoring system for evaluating the performance of the teachers and no proper feedback providing system.
  • Results of TET shows dismal figures of only 3-4 percent of them passing the eligibility test.
  • Around 20 percent of regular teachers and 40 percent of contact teachersdid not have professional qualifications for elementary education. (NCTE study).
  • Increase in the culture of the private coaching classes and involvement of teachers there.
  • Appointment of Ad-hoc teachers because of the lack to adequate number of qualified and properly trained teachers
  • Wide spread corruption at various levels in teaching (management level, Internal politics etc.)
  • A National Council of Educational Research and Trainingstudy finds there is no systematic incorporation of teacher feedback into designing trainings, and little variation or consideration of local issues. There is no measure of whether this is translated into classroom practice.
  • Nearly half the teachersbelieve that not all children could achieve excellent educational outcomes because of their socioeconomic backgrounds.
  • Only 25% incorporate activity-based learningand 33% use storytelling or role-play in their pedagogic approach, either because these weren’t priorities or because they did not have time.
  • The National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC), responsible for quality-standards in higher education, has only covered 30 per cent of all institutes since its establishment back in 1994.
  • Till date, there is no accurate real-time database of the number and details of teacher education institutes, students enrolled and programmes offered.