Parents’ ‘dated’ mindset impedes new teaching methods in schools

Vijayawada | Thursday | 4th October, 2018

Summary:

“There are some parents, who raise questions about the teaching methods. Vijayawada: Teaching methods and curriculum in schools need to be updated as the field of Information and Technology (IT) is growing by leaps and bounds.But the implementation of new teaching methods and evaluation systems is having poor acceptance from parents who need to change their mindsets, teachers think. But this part is exhausting as many parents tend to put pressure on the teachers,” said Ramakrishna, biology teacher in a private school. B Suresh Kumar, principal of a private school in Ajit Singh Nagar, insists that a discussion with parents at the beginning of the academic year would solve the problems. We try our best to convince them that one bad performance has little effect on the overall grading..