Education plays an important role in human life regarding to build their personality, career and mental growth. Education is the best tool for facing any up and down situation through the whole life. We can not only improve our personal life by education but also can bring an amazing positive change in society or nation.

any up and down situation through the whole life. We can not only improve our personal life by education but also can bring an amazing positive change in society or nation.

To provide education among people, society has declared some places as home to education like Schools and Colleges where some pattern are followed in procedural manner to offer quality education for the aspiring students. Currently government has majorly focused on the schooling system for students. It has been compulsory for children of age 6 to 14 years to get primary education from any authorized school.

In most states of India, education system is followed by 10+2+3 prototype which consist 10 years of primary (till 8^th class) and secondary education (9^th and 10^th), 2 years of higher or senior secondary education (11^th and 12^th) and last 3 years of graduation from any degree college.

Apart from individual state board, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) are two bodies that operate various schools throughout the country and monitor all the courses, subjects, syllabus and give out result till secondary and higher secondary education. Secondary education may be proved as the turning point for students as the marks obtained in class 10^th decide the further stream of that student. After completing education till senior secondary (12^th), students have to decide their professional career option. Degree Colleges, professional Institutes or universities are the next destination for students in manner to get professional knowledge of engineering, medical, law, MBA, aeronautical, fashion, teaching and many more academic working areas.

In recent past years, by the efforts of government or other organizations of India, people have much awareness about importance of education. Thus result of growing education rate in India can been seen by measuring the literacy rate chart of India according to census 2011, where tremendous increment is seen in comparison to the last census of 2001. In fact, Kerala state is counted as the 100 percent literate state of India.

Teachers are an extremely important face of any society for a number of reasons and their role in society is both significant and valuable. Teachers play an extraordinary part in the lives of children for the formative years of their development and the importance of teachers is something that cannot be understated. They involve themselves in moulding their students into responsible citizens of their country.

However, in recent years teachers are facing many difficulties for our students to teach. Though it be making them learn, creating interest among young minds, making them understand the importance of career etc. No doubt, teachers are genuinely trying their best but they are not reached up to the mark. On the contrary, the teachers are losing respect because of certain things! Teaching to today’s generation is such a toughest job and teachers must be extremely careful. Below are the 10 points which are the major reasons why teachers are loosing respect . . . . !

1. Treating student like KIDS

Every generation has a unique quality that makes it amazing for its time, so is today’s generation ! In reality, we cannot compare current generation child with previous generation. Opportunities, technology etc. are changing over a period of time. The opportunities that are available today are more than the previous generation time.

With this aspect, teachers generally do not change their behaviour in the class with changing generations. They still treat students like KIDS! They scold, shout for no/small reason! We all must agree that students are mature enough to take right decision about their career; they just require mentoring and valuable guidance. Over-pampering, forcing your views on them may results into losing your respect in their mind. 

2. Ignoring queries of students

Every query of a student must be respected. We should never categorize student’s query into useless and genuine query. If the query exceeds more in number, teacher may request students to come outside the class and ask them put the query. Sometimes students do not have any idea whether they are asking genuine queries or not genuine queries. Accepting and answering all the queries of all the students is a duty of all our teachers.

3. Use of crammed PPT’s in classroom!

Use of crammed and many-slides PPT’s is another reason why students lose attention in the class. Teacher use 100 slides for 1 chapter with almost all the contents covered in the chapter. We all must believe in the fact that – PPT is not a study material and a reference material.  Only imp topics, diagrams and key points must be included in PPT. The presentation, font and color of the PPT must be decent enough.

4. No technology and innovative pedagogy in the classrooms!

Today, the entire world is a fan of technology. Education sector has no exception in this. It is the fact that- Technology is whole and sole responsible for reducing the efforts taken by learners (students) and teachers in terms of gathering useful information , printed notes and journals , writing assignments , use of offline compilers for code execution, use of smart boards as a teaching assistant etc.

Most of the teacher still sticks to rote learning. They use traditional pedagogical methods to teach practical concepts. This results into loss of interest of the subject. According to statistics, in 1 hour of theory lecture, students listen not more than 10-12 minutes! Keeping lecture interactive by giving real life examples, case studies, classroom activities helps students to build the interest and understand the subject better.

5. Faculty giving marks to projects without properly examining them!

Many a times it happens that, teacher do not constructively criticize in the student’s projects. Project is something which reflects student’s analytical and research skills which are highly required for any graduate student in outside world. The quality of project does not only depend upon the amount of work done by students but it also depends upon how teacher mentors it.

Rewarding grade to project is completely different thing. It must be based on certain rubrics. The rubrics are not necessarily defined by faculty but it must be discussed with the students for more transparency. If student knows at what parameter they have to work upon, the quality of the project will automatically increase. 

6. Not giving enough time.

Not giving enough time to students is another reason why students lose the respect. Teacher must prepare schedule properly and circulate it among students. If students are clear about your schedule then, they will definitely come to you at proper time.

7. Behaving over- professionally with the students.

Being professional in school/colleges is always appreciated. It helps students to understand the importance of professionalism when they graduated from the school. However this has another aspect of thinking also. Students sometimes require personal attention for their problems. . !

Problems are not necessarily to be academic or project related. They can be personal or any sort of advice that they are seeking to you. Being over-professionally with them loses the communication between you and students. In such case students do not feel you are the right person to ask for any advice. Building right and healthy communication is a job of a teacher.

8. Spoon feeding!

There is absolutely no harm in giving lecture notes and PPT to the students, in fact it helps student to structure the content and study accordingly. It is observed that teacher give all the content which includes how to write the answer, what content teacher wants, how many pages teacher wants the answer etc. by doing this – you are actually decreasing the thinking level of a students. Student fails to think out of box approach in such cases.  The role of teacher should be mentor and guide not the spoon feeder

9. Ignoring indiscipline in the classroom

Certain amount of discipline is required in the classroom. There will be some mischievous students always in the classroom. Teacher must have a control of the classroom. Students may demand certain things from you for their personal benefits which may not be beneficial for other students. A smart teacher must know how to tackle such situations.

10. Favouring personally to few students

After all we are human being; we are always biased towards certain things/people in our life. That is the fact and everybody must accept. No doubt that certain teacher has their favourite students for many reasons. If the student is really working hard, then favouring them is absolutely fine, however quite a few times continually favouring certain students may create negative impression on other students that they are not getting attended by teacher. It results into loss of respect of teacher. It may not be your intention but it is always better to be unbiased in certain activities like assessments, doubt solving etc.

With all these points, understand the fact that :- The role of a teacher now a days is mentor ! Learning is whole and sole responsibility of student but creating environment for them is a job of a teacher.