It is said that if a nation is to be made a slave, snatch its education or deprecate the education system of that nation, unfortunately, this is what has been observed since the inception of our education system, the issues in our education system are deeply rooted, as per my calculations our education system ranks the lowest in the level of seriousness for education in the world. As henry Peter Brougham said Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. 

People of other nations are well aware that educating the youth is equal to investing in the future of the nation. Therefore, they try to maximize this investment and they keep on improving their education system with the passage of time. Tactlessly, such situations do not occur in Sindh, education is not given social or state-level importance here. In comparison to Pakistan, other countries are a powerhouse in the education system, such facts lead to a bunch of questions why Sindh education is lacking behind, where is the flaw, and is it our social issue? Why people do not understand that education actually is an investment in the future of the nation? Hopefully, our rulers understand this point and start taking appropriate measures related to it.

To me, our education needs reformation that can change the entire map of education in Sindh, in upcoming years our population in the country will raise up to 30 crores, and by the time the total population of the province Sindh is expected to reach 55.02 million, if we do not move in the right direction then what will be the condition one can visualize, for meeting the core purpose of education I think our teachers must know how to teach well. Our teacher education system must be improved because to me teacher education is an indispensable and precarious part of every educational system and hence plays an essential role in improving quality and enhancing the educational system. because the teacher is said as a change agent in society, so the teachers need not only to be able to keep order and provide useful information to students but also to be increasingly effective in enabling a diverse group of students in this connection if a teacher remains unaware, how the transformation of education will take place? The current teacher education system needs to be reformed, numerous issues are existing in teacher education and these issues are related to administration such as training programs 1st of all the time duration is very little and unproductive for our pre-service and in-service teachers.

This is not that era where teachers were expected to prepare only a slight minority, now teachers are expected to prepare virtually all students for higher-order thinking and performance skills. I do not think our teacher education system is capable enough to create such inspiring teachers, in our teacher education system is lacking funding and resources, and we still have poorly equipped training institutions. This is one of the critical components, we do not have coherence and integration among courses and between course work and we also have a dearth of clinical work in educational institutes.

As Linda Darling-Hammond said that there shall be a clinical practice for teachers with their pieces of training, this practice will boast teachers teaching and learning skills she compares the medical and engineering fields with theory there is a practice in clinics hospitals and engineering labs.

In our teacher training programs, we see an imbalance between general and professional courses, and emphasis is given to theory, there is a lack of research and evaluation of teacher training programs, and most importantly we have short training duration, especially in case of in-service training, even the new recruitment of teachers in Sindh despite of towering claims and plans may face the problems which shall critically be analyzed. Like we lack uniformity in our education system so different talented people passed the tests whose aptitude may not be of teacher, many of them are engineers and doctors, do we think they will teach well? What kind of teacher education curriculum is designed for new teachers?  

Teacher education is a crucial component of the education system and it plays a pivotal role in the quality improvement and strengthening of the education system because teaching is a challenging task for its quality performance teacher education is very essential we lack teacher education opportunities. Although there are plenty of training institutes owing to poor administration and the courses are outdated and traditional which do not enhance the skills, motivation, and quality of 21st-century teachers, because of such issues the quality of teachers in Sindh is deplorable and it will get grimmer if the inspiring teachers will not be available in the schools.

I think there shall be no political interference, the regular political intervention creates gaps in the system which has led to corruption and other evils.

It has been observed from educators that the bills related to education remain pending for a long time, this gives a sense that policies should be strong and implemented without any delay and resources, the policy shall not be changed by anyone easily because the poor policy implementation will lead to the creation of gaps and trust deficit on the part of the public. 

Research culture shall be promoted within teacher education institutions. For this purpose, the pace of research-oriented programs in teaching and learning should be accelerated especially from school to higher levels. 

 

 

By : Kamran