Critical thinking and individual phased learning is the need of time!

 Critical thinking and individual phased learning is the need of time!

The significance of the teacher is not reduced but the role was changed from a source of knowledge to a facilitator. The success of the modern teacher is to guide properly to summarise and develop critical thinking in the process of knowledge acquisition.

The main advantage of the modern teaching scenario is individualistic; student-centric, technological enhanced, individual phased learning strategies, helps students to be more involved and enthusiastic in the teaching-learning process. 

The main disadvantage of our present teaching strategy is information overload. students fail to find out the best among a large source of information. If one opts only for a source of information it can be lopsided. It is not the information but how to synthesise and process information into knowledge that causes difficulty in the modern teaching-learning process. 

I prefer to have a blended model of the teaching-learning process. As in the traditional method, teachers should have wide knowledge on the topic and guide the students to find out the best source of information from a wide variety. Teaching should be more of an individualistic process but the facilitator role of the teacher should not be forgotten. Teachers should be able to find out students' interests and give a focus to that path of learning. 

To sum up, a teacher should be a critical observer and guide to the teaching-learning process but teachers should have an open heart to accept individualistic interest and taste. Teachers should incorporate a wide variety of teaching methodology in the transformation of knowledge to cater to individual differences. The element of self-study and critical thinking among students is to be cultivated in the process of teaching and learning.