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Teachers must hone skills of students: Minister

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, JAN. 10. The Education Minister, K. Lakshminarayanan, has called upon the teachers to play a key role to hone the skills and capability of students.

Inaugurating a two-day fifth national conference on `Indian Approaches to Education', organised by the Pondicherry chapter of Psychology Association at the Achariya College of Education at Villianoor near here today, he said that competition had become the order of the day particularly in the backdrop of globalisation. Hence, teachers should gear themselves adequately to play their role as effective purveyors of knowledge and information.

The Minister presented `Best Educationist Awards' instituted by the Psychology Association to the former Director of Teacher Education, Chennai, A. Panneerselvam and the Head of Department of Education in the Annamalai University, Mamota Das.

The Vice Chancellor of the Pondicherry University, A. K. Bhatnagar, who presided and released a souvenir, said that teachers should understand the psychology of students. There should be proactive role on the part of the learners so that teaching inside the classroom became better.

Mr. Bhatnagar said that in addition to teaching, teachers should have frequent interaction with the students and this would give an opportunity to them to identify the barriers standing in the way of the academic advancement of the students.

The President of the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology, Varnasi, G.P. Thakur, in his keynote address said that a good delivery of subjects and contents of the curriculum by the teachers was more important than the acquisition of qualifications.

He said that psychology had several features, which should be adopted in educational system, and the atmosphere in the educational institutions should also be such that students should be attracted into them.

The former Minister, Theni C. Jayakumar, MLA, the Chairman of Achariya College of Education J.Aravindhan, the organising secretary of the conference, Panch Ramalingam, the Chairman of the Centre for Universal Ethics, Fr A.S. Anotonisamy and the Secretary and Principal of the St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science, Cuddalore, Fr.A.J. Lawrenence, spoke.

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