1000+ Social Topics for Group Discussion with Answers
Background:
The relationship between teachers and students is a matter of phenomenal significance. Since times immemorial teachers have been held in high esteem and students, howsoever powerful they may be, have shown deepest regards for them.
Teachers have been builders and architects of entire civilizations, but of late, their roles have been disputed. Lack of accountability and accusation of partisan attitudes have been put forth as powerful arguments against them.
Even U.G.C. has recently recommended teacher assessment by students. This is a very sensitive matter and needs serious attention.
Points in Favour:
Teachers-student relationship should be a two way affair. In the western countries, students are allowed to assess the performance of their teachers at the end of each term. In India, there is no such provision, through things have changed a lot here also.
Teachers are becoming more and more money minded and takes their job for granted.
The mechanism of assessment will enforce a sense of greater responsibility in them.
Lack of accountability is an important point to consider. Teachers job should be contractual. In India, teachers have no accountability either to the students or to the educational authorities. They function as a law into themselves.
Many teachers seldom engage their classes, many of them go for private coaching and many of them go for private part time work.
Thus there should be periodic assessment by students and the observations should matter in promotions and higher assignments.
Against:
Assessment by students will cause a negative psychological effect.
Good teachers are individuals of integrity and progressive ideas.
Any restrictions will hamstring their individual approach.
In the present context, political, regional or even caste and communal factors and they may fall prey to these factors.
This will give a new perspective to the age old established relationship between teachers and students. Academics will get a jolt and the free flow of knowledge and research will go hay ware.
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