Our education system needs to go from “Is Teacher Training Institution important?” to “Our teachers MUST be trained regularly”, only then can any other change we bring into our education system impact students positively.
Training teachers is necessary in the 21st century mainly because current-generation students don’t comprehend traditional teaching methods. We cannot teach students of today with approaches of yesterday. Students in the 21st century need personalization in education. The Indian education system has been following the habit of seeing the classroom as a whole and not as individual students, which is unfair to most students. Each student is unique in myriad ways including in the way they think, analyze, understand, and go about academics. It is therefore essential for our existing system to bring in this change. Training teachers to know how to view their students as unique individuals with different learning styles is a game changer. Once teachers understand this and know how to cater to the various learning styles, they will positively impact hundreds and thousands of students.