Teachers divided on future of online classes

Teachers divided on future of online classes
Ms Medha Gupta preparing for her next Chemistry lecture
By ARCHISHA YADAV

GWALIOR: For Medha Gupta, a Chemistry teacher at Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, remote working was never a challenge, but remote teaching definitely is.

Even after a teaching experience of 18 years she finds taking online classes challenging. She said, “In the beginning, most of us had to adapt to technology that we weren’t familiar with overnight. And as a result, the working hours increased.” Along with being the HOD of her subject, she had to play technology trouble-shooter, and her phone never stopped buzzing.

She said, “Despite the availability of the content and resources, its application, how to use it and how to deliver it to the students in the right manner is the real deal.”


According to her, when one meets a student in a classroom, a connection is established, and it becomes easier to clarify any doubts immediately. However, in online classes, the connection is lost which has to be established over time with content delivery and interactions.

While some teachers still believe that the future of education is in the classrooms, Nabia Fatima, an English teacher at the same school as Medha, holds a different opinion.

She believes that the pandemic has radically changed the concept of traditional education in the past few months and virtual learning will be the future of education. “Keeping ourselves and the students engaged has become the priority since the lockdown, and virtual classes have proved to be helpful in these difficult times. This powerful medium has diversified the field of education,” she said.
Medha Gupta
“Earlier, teachers were not so familiar with online teaching at the school level, except for the computer science faculty. Now, along with the teachers, every profession has chosen the virtual platform, providing new opportunities to both learners and the experts. Therefore, online teaching is more of an opportunity than a challenge,” Fatima added.

The story first appeared in The Times of Bennett, the lab newspaper produced by the first semester students of The Times School of Media.

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