NETWORK TEACHING

A single teacher for a single subject is like drinking water from one stream and trying to undrstand the taste of all rivers of the world. A better alternative would be to allow different teachers to interact with the students. The learning would be multi-dimensional.

Every teacher has excellence and blind spots in patches. The students must suffer both. Providing a second teacher and probably a third teacher [for the same subject] would enhance sieving action in the minds of the students. They would develop the ability to decipher the `blind spots' much easily. Network teaching would enhance learning, indirectly it would help both teachers as also the students.

At times a teacher feel that he hasnot been able to explain a particular `point' to a certain group within the class. He can suggest the next `network teacher' to take up that point again. Almost always there is success.

Mobile teachers doing network teaching would have less pressure as they can enhance their `excellent' spots to the best and allow their `blind spots' to be cleared by other teachers. The students would respond to this `excellence' by allowing churning of diverse knowledge to take place. Tangential learning leading to innovative thought processes would unleash questioning of networking teachers. The learners would demand knowledge and not that the teachers have to force-feed.

But the question is - is network teaching possible. Especially with teachers having OVERSIZED egos which keep becoming bigger and bigger. NETWORK COUPLE OF SCHOOLS - YOU MAY BE SURPRISED AT THE SUCCESS!

PS : The heading of this was to be NETWORK COACHING - as during a visit to a residential school some of my basketball students attended `chemistry' & `maths' classes and compared their own teachers - the idea of NETWORK TEACHING was born. Even coaches should allow their players to `learn' from others so that a multi-dimension in learning is developed, rather than hanging on to players because of their personal egos.