Challenges of Right to Education
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The document discusses challenges in implementing the Right to Education (RTE) Act in India. It outlines several issues: 1) Eligibility tests do not adequately assess teaching skills and competencies. 2) Teacher training alone is not enough to make one a competent teacher. 3) Teacher accountability and absenteeism are serious problems. 4) Teaching quality differs greatly between private and government schools. 5) Students in government schools are learning very little. 6) Certain RTE provisions, like banning corporal punishment, are often violated. Suggestions to address these include establishing minimum infrastructure, expanding existing school facilities, and developing curricula responsive to changing needs.
Challenges of Right to Education
- 1. Submitted By: Lakhyajit Nath (EGE15050) Department of EFL Tezpur University
- 10. 1. Inadequate eligibility tests for appointment of teachers : Eligibility tests like CTET and STET are based on mere information recall and the qualifications or degrees required for the appointment of teachers are not capable of assessing the qualities of a competent teacher. Thus they fail to test the teaching competencies or skills of an individual.
- 11. 2. Inadequate teacher training programmes : Training programmes alone are not enough to transform an individual into a competent teacher with the required knowledge and skills for teaching.
- 12. 3. Teacher accountability and absenteeism: There have been a number of studies in India that tell us that teacher accountability is an extremely serious problem. Further teacher absenteeism is also high. What makes it even more worrying is that there is no guarantee that if a teacher shows up in school the teacher actually teaches.
- 13. 4. Quality of teaching in private and government schools greatly differ: Comparison between the quality or standard of teaching proves the private schools better. The reason is that teachers in private schools are supervised and their performance is under constant watch. Accountability of government schools is very weak.
- 14. 5. Quality of Education in government schools: The government may well be bringing in children to schools but the fact is that they are learning very little. Some children can hardly read and write even after spending years in the school
- 15. 6. Certain provisions of RTE are constantly being violated in schools: Provisions of RTE act like banning of corporal punishment in schools and providing students with a stress free teaching and learning process are being violated in a number of schools. Often the teacher pupil ratio, as provided by RTE, is not maintained in schools. Further in some remote areas, schools are not available within 1km distance and as a result students have to travel long distances to attend their classes.
- 16. 7. The school doesn't have any proper playground and they did not provide any playing equipments
- 17. 8. The infrastructure was so pathetic. Window parts are broken, there is no electric light facilities, mid day meal kitchens are also in poor state
- 19. Suggestion Minimum required infrastructure facilities should be established in the neglected areas on priority basis. Facilities in the existing government schools should be expanded. To achieve the goals of Free and Compulsory Elementary Education, it is utmost importance to develop curriculum that is responsive to changing needs and facilitates the incorporation and integration of new content areas related to science, technology, population and the environment
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