For quite some period of time the KridhaTutor Consultancy team has been working with the education sector and at the closest associations of many teachers and students. From home tution to tutorial classes and online classes, we have experienced much in the area of learning and teaching. And we are getting more experience and knowledge as we progress in our journey in the world of education.
Out of all these experiences and more, we have learnt that just arranging teachers with students or just providing the teaching and learning opportunities are not sufficient to build a strong community of education comprising the best teachers and performing students. We need a lot more. So we as a team of KridhaTutor are always eager and curious to find and try all traditionally suggested as well as innovative ways to achieve that education goal.
On the line of this journey, we found and realised that we can contribute a lot to our education circle of teachers, students and parents. Not only by arranging a good teacher for a performing student, we are contented or complacent. We want to help our teachers, students and parents most earnestly so that we together can make the education happen at the highest possible quality. And by this inspiration we took the plans to launch a knowledge center for our students and teachers and also the parents.
We divided this knowledge center into 2 divisions, viz. the Teacher Training section and the Student Support section. Our teachers will benefit the most through our teacher training section by getting exposed to many traditional as well as many latest theories and concepts on the delivery of proper education or pedagogy systems.
For our students we have got the student support section. They also need to know the ways of learning and we feel great need for that. Such information and knowledge can improve the performance of students of all grades and all performance categories. And if that is possible then we would cherish that success and achievement of our students.
From time to time great academicians and educationists came and gave us epic theories about education psychology, learning and teaching processes and philosophies. But very few of those great theories are actually applied during learning and teaching at all the levels of education over here. Most of such epoch-making theories find their places in the books but very few of them are converted into practical approaches.
Beside the traditional theories, scientists and academicians are doing many innovative researches on teaching and learning methods and processes. Journals and books with those research papers are regularly published worldwide. Despite so much of studies and research, students, parents and teachers, all are either completely or partially ignorant of all such developments. As a result we are deprived from reaping the good results of such research and development.
We at KridhaTutor have a vision that we can do something more for our students and teachers other than just arranging class sessions. That was the source of this idea to present the different theories of learning and teaching in an easy language and lucid construction.
Usually research papers and academic texts are not much readable and understandable by general people. So we can somewhat change the presentation and language to make it interesting and useful for our students, teachers and parents.
As the author I believe that this endeavour will generate a new consciousness on teaching, learning and the overall education process within teachers, students and also in parents. Even if one does not understand the total of the theories, still even if a portion also becomes understandable and implementable for us then that can bring radical changes in our perspectives and processes of education.
And the highest benefits will go to our students. This is what that is our prime objective. We want our students to get maximum care and comfort from our side, maximum participation from our side to make their learning experience a really enjoyable and fruitful one.
Parents will also get an exposure to the theories and methods of education in easy to understand articles. This will enrich their conceptions and implementations regarding their child’s education and will clear many confusions that they carry due to lack of proper information and knowledge.
The EduBlog Approach
This is one important point worth mentioning. We have no scope and idea to present any kind of course study materials or academic text or article in this section of our blogs. This is where we run our Educational Blog (EduBlog) for communication with the students, teachers and parents as well as all the general people who are on the internet. In future Our study materials and course related documents will find their place in separate and respective course study material sections.
As an EduBlog, the scope and range of these documents will not anyhow scale to the level of academic documents. Article over here will be generally readable, understandable and with a light note in comparison to hardcore academic articles. As the author, I will pick up those very important and useful topics and issues from traditional as well as concurrent learning and teaching theories and discuss them over here.
For more detailed learning of such theories and concepts reading text books and research papers are recommended. I will attach some bibliographical references when and where suitable. Teachers and students can follow those references for more information and knowledge.
Teacher Training and Student Support – Why Two Classifications?
It is true that the original classification is just one and we can call it learning theories or something like that. It encompasses all what is needed by the teachers, the students and also the parents in the context of education, teaching and learning. But still I prefer for two different categories. One exclusively for the teachers which we will call the teacher training section. And the other one is under the name of the student support section.
The teacher training section will concentrate on the process and procedures for teachers to help in their pedagogy. It will optimize their information delivery and knowledge transfer capabilities and efficiencies. Also students and parents will find this section interesting as the theory of learning is relevant and important for academic performance and excellence.
If parents and students are also well conversant or educated in learning theories then teachers will find it easy and confident to implement and use such theories more successfully. Thus will build a total ecosystem of scientific teaching, education and learning.
We understand that only helping and guiding the teachers will not work at the best. We need to closely communicate with the students and sometimes with the parents also. We want to try to solve the problems a student may face or get into during his studies and academic progress. We need to help them realise their potential and use that for their academic performances and career. This is the reason for a separate section exclusively for students, we named it as Student Support Section.
Parents can gather knowledge from both the sections. They play a crucial role between the students and teachers. For that reason a little understanding of learning theories and teaching methods can make their communication and interaction with the teachers as well as students richer and smoother. This will undoubtedly promote the learning environment.