A Review of the Tools of Evaluation for the Over Hauling of Teaching Learning Process at Schools of Durgapur

Abstract

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It’s about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life” A very realistic statement given by the famous Indian writer Shakuntala Devi popularly known as “Human Computer”, signifies the real aim of Education. A society which is being enlightened by knowledge always keeps changing and also knows the importance of change with time. Education is the weapon which helps in the all-round development of an individual. In recent times India is achieving importance at Global level which requires the throughout development of our country which can only be don through education and technology. Thus to meet this demand, education needs to be changed according to the modern time and technology so that it can achieve it’s goal. This change in education again can be done by changing the teaching- learning process at every educational level, especially at school level. Education should be such that it can help a child or a person to develop him into an autonomous and independent-thinking individual, to associate empathetically to the other people and the world around them, to become aware about the humankind, to be a responsible citizen and part of a community, to become economically productive, and to develop a good ethical and moral values. But unfortunately the children are not learning what they are actually meant to, they are only gathering marks through rote learning. Many educational reforms are being applied by different law–making authorities since many years but hardly can they give any solutions to the problem of proper teaching–learning process at school level. Teachers, school leaders, and most parents already know that schools are obsolete, and a few have a view that this system is unable to be rectified. To modify this thinking the government has tried to implement different new policies which can improve the condition of teaching learning process at school level.The present scenario of teaching–learning process at school level emphasizes on the excessive curriculum load, the weighty school bag, rote learning , fear of future, neglectedness of mother tongue in primary stages, main focus only on the Board marks or grades, etc. suppresses their curiosity, creativity, along with the ‘power’ of ideas and of imagination. So to solve this problem recently, The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has reduced the curriculum by one-half, to bring a drastic change in the school environment where the children are tried to make free from the fear of examinations. This change can probably bring the childhood back to the children in schools which are their right