Academic Excellence-barriers and way to achieve it

What is the utility of education? The utility of education is to prepare the child to face the realities of life. In other words, education should be able to make a child physically fit, mentally alert and emotionally balanced. Education is a way to developing the competencies in a child.

Requirements of academic excellence are: -

• Child should have competency at language.
• Child should have competency at numerical operations.
• Child should develop a free hand practice of computer applications.

Barriers of academic excellence are: -

• Adjustment problem with the teachers and the students.
• Low morale due to improper or no orientation at all of the teachers.
• Unplanned teaching resulting from the unsatisfactory efforts for the right kind of teaching-learning processess to be adopted in the classroom by the teacher.
• Strong dislike for studies in the child.
• Socio-economic status of the child.
• Irresponsible behaviour of the parents.

In such a situation when the requirements of academic excellence are only few while the barriers are too many, it becomes the duty of a teacher to work out on these issues in a systematic and planned way so that the objective of achieving academic excellence can be reached. In government schools, a teacher must concentrate on improving English language of the students besides working on the areas which can help the child develop his neuro-muscular co-ordination. The duty of developing English language of the children in government schools does not merely rest on the English language teacher or the Spoken English trainer. It should be supervised by the head of the school before he requests his faculty to contribute their best in developing the English language of the students. He would ensure that a fearless atmosphere is created in the school campus where the children find enough time and opportunities to speak English.

It would be a first step but a giant leap in achieving academic excellence.