Teacher And Social Change: Educative Process

In the fast changing world, a country, a community or an institution will not be able to keep pace with the changing times if it does not have enlightened vision for the future. There has been a qualitative change in the role of the institution as well as the role of the teacher. While theinstitutions are called upon to deal with production oriented society, action-oriented youth and process-oriented education. The efficacy and strength of an educational system largely depends upon the quality of its teachers. Creativity is another aspect which the teacher cannot ignore. She has to accept challenge of generating thirst for knowledge, a search for truth and a spirit for enquiring for experience. Critical thinking are good for everyone. Critical thinking an anticipation towards thinking ahead which offers intellectual tools to the teaching community. But the shift is most evident in our institutions, where Critical thinking has replaced rote learning as the central goal of education. Curriculum occupies a central place in any educational system. The realisation of educational objectives will depend on the type of curriculum that is framed and prescribed as well as on the way it is implemented. The curriculum in the future will have to be geared to the development of a new international order. This will involve, to begin with, development of national outlook which will ultimately lead to the development of global perspective. Therefore, a curriculum has to be future oriented, dynamic, relevant to social needs and balanced.Concepts having potentialities for the development of such an attitude will have to be given a prominent place in the curriculum of different disciplines. Motivation is most important factor in the learning process. Motivation is the art of stimulating interest in the students where there has been no such interest, or where it is as yet unfelt by the students, and also of cultivating the interest already present in behalf of socially approved conduct. In all types of learning there must be a goal, and hence, we can say that all learning is motivated. To improvethe conditions of effective learning the teacher can do by influencing motivation. Again, the teacher is called upon to be a change agent, a facilitator sensitive to the development needs of the community.The conventional accent has been on information transmission, fact finding and skill development. The traditional wisdom is lost in the quest for dubious knowledge and knowledge is lost under mountains of information.The role of teacher has assumed special significances, since teachers today are interested with serene task of enkindling the spirit of global awareness among students. The paper in an attempt to provide necessary professional knowledge and guides the teachers to developed the required skills to make their teaching talent effective. Key words: Creativity, Critical thinking, Curriculum,Educative process, Interest, Motivation,Professional Knowledge, Social Change, Skill development