How relevant is the BEd to your teaching practice?
10 December 2009
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How much of what you learn in the BEd programme is put to work in the way you approach your classes? What aspects of the curriculum do you feel have helped you in your work and what would you like to see changed, if you had to do it over? Write and share your ideas and experiences with other teachers!
Hello, this is indeed a very good topic to be discussed at length. i have a B.Sc degree with Child Development as the major subject with distinction and merit scholarship. i learnt various subjects under this major related to Child Development,Family Dynamics,Women Empowerment,Psychology etc. Weekly fieldwork at a Day Care Centre and various other NGO’s with target groups and assigned projects and graded work was also a part of this grad course.i truly believe that without this experience i wouldnt be the teacher i am today. when i first joined a school, i soon found out that i was way ahead in term of knowledge and experience compared to other freshers.
i have been teaching since 3 yrs at the Primary and Pre-Primary levels. i was the Co-ordinator for the Primary wing at one of the school’s too. i attribute all this success to the education of grad days. the curriculum was so unique and indepth that it was complete by all means. even today i apply most of it to my everyday classroom situations. the learnings of my grad days are still relevant in today’s time and context.
coming to B.Ed, no doubt its a “must have” for any aspiring teacher. it acts as compass to navigate through the world of education.the techniques/methods taught in this course increases the efficiency of an aspiring teacher. But, i personaly believe that teaching is an art, it cannot be taught/learnt, yes, you may get an idea of the basics or teaching ideologies/school of thoughts existing in world but once a teacher enters her class, she has to adapt and adopt as per the class environment. this is purely on the teachers’ innate creativity as to how she would handle each day with her students. no course teaches this and it comes naturally to a good teacher.
B.Ed is relevant when our government has to ensure that only the trained teachers teach at all levels of the country. since education is the primary goal of every government we have, hence the pre-requisition of this course to get a job in most of the schools is valid. it helps to increase the percentage of trained teachers entering the field of education which is so crucial for our huge population and the country.
the only drawback is that its compulsion does not gurantee the entry of “quality” teachers to teach the masses. we may have trained manpower to educate our children but are they really effective? a trained teacher is therefore not a “quality” teacher.
its therefore tough to define the job of a teacher. for he/she has to be a mentor/parent/friend/adult etc in the classroom environment. a teacher has to don so many roles to make the learning a success that its really tough to agree that a good teacher is the one who has a B.Ed degree alone (or for that matter any other degree as well).
i still might have been a good teacher in absence of the graduation degree, my views are different in terms of quality preceding quantity as the rule in my life. i have numerous friends/colleagues who are armed with variety of degrees but not capable of taking even a single creative class for any grade. its sad to see them climb higher in terms of designation just based on those degrees since as “teahcers” they have hardly delivered anytime.
a teacher makes difference in a student’s life, how many of us have done that till now? if we belive in just entering a class every morning,lecturing and correcting papers as our duty as teachers then i am not a party to it. a teacher’s job is much more higher, spiritual and creative then all this.
if a B.Ed degree provides this add on to any fresh aspiring teacher then i agree that yes its an essential for anybody in this field.
as for now, i am happy the way i have successfully geared my way through various levels of teaching purley on “talent/ambition” to be the best amongst my peers.i havent yet felt the need to acquire more degrees to validate this further for i know that i grow as a human being everyday at my school. my students are my best teachers and i learn everything from them.
i have nothing against B.Ed but the hype created to harbour one and then “relax” later just to take up teaching as “just another vocation” is simply not acceptable to me.
thankyou for allowing us all to voice our concerns regarding this issue,i hope that many of us shall come up with interesting views on same. Teaching is a spiritual experience for me, it is just not a vocation, hence my views are more emotional in nature….anyways, i am so glad to have expressed my innermost feelings to a well read and respected forum i.e Teacherplus.
i am indeed happy to be a part of this platform,thanks once again,keep up the good work.
Regards,
Hetal Pandya,
Hyd, AP.
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I am not a teacher but aspire to be one. I studied various books by Maria Montessori, Steiner Waldorf and have volunteered in few schools. I started reading my mother’s B.Ed material. It was quite theoretical and presented many views of several people in the field of education but didn’t have anything on how to bring that theory into practice, how to use it actively in the classroom. Frankly, didn’t seem very useful, so I really would love to know from teachers how they view their B.Ed, do they follow any of what is preached?
Students of medicine and law are under practicing physicians and lawyers for a while before they are allowed to handle cases of their own. Observing and being observed are I think important for teachers as well.
regards
bhuvana
The only good thing about doing B Ed was the one month Teaching Practice under the guidance of my teacher. Of course, B Ed was an opportunity to look at different educational theories. But what I found is while we are doing B Ed we overdo everything else other than teaching that by the end of the course you don’t want to do it in your classroom at all. I mean from making TLM that you won’t use in your classrooms to the hundreds of stupid assignments that you write just because you are graded based on it
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