Are we ready for a new paradigm?

Every morning they see new developments happening in the field of schooling. Some researcher talks about the necessity for sight words, while the other talks about phonics, some advocate the necessity to promote thinking skills, some stand for memorizing skills and the list goes on and on. These things show that there is nice amount of awareness on the necessity for good schooling. I also think that the people around the globe have started believing in the power of educated mass. While I am glad as an enthusiastic learner, I am left with plenty of questions and wonderments. School brochures are filled with pretty lines like Multiple Intelligence enabled classrooms, World class curriculum, Teachers catering to emotional intelligence, activity based classrooms, kid centered curriculum, result oriented coaching, etc. Parents get drawn to those captions and admit their children. School managements adopt such kind of frameworks, strategies and techniques with all nice intentions but how is it ensured that their classrooms are geared up to meet the respective requirements. Are there's some benchmarks set in those areas by the schools with clear timelines? How do such frameworks, strategies or techniques reflect in the schools vision and philosophy? A school is comprised of various stakeholders that include management, parents, teachers and students. Every stake-holder is important and plays a significant role in the development of the kid. It doesn't cease there. It is important that the stakeholders create themselves as well. More importantly what about the teachers who play a key role in the development of children?

How plenty of school managements think about teacher empowerment? No doubts some schools focus on training teachers. What kind of follow ups are done after the training? How plenty of school managements make positive that the practices brought in due to training gets sustained? What measures are taken to do so? Above all do schools see this as an intellectual investment than a training fund for the staff which has to be spent in some way? While such things could help managements to review and refine their approach, there's also some aspects which the teachers could look in to?

I think such kind of questions could help schools and teachers to self- reflect. Such kind of reflections and later realizations could lead to actions which in turn could pave way to a brand spanking new paradigm in schooling.

Teachers are provided with a chance to get themselves empowered with. Do teachers recognize the necessity to get empowered with? Do they see such opportunities as doors that could keep them abreast of the latest developments in their profession than taking a look at it as additional workload? How plenty of teachers visualize the power of their influence among children?