Opinion | Primary school teachers are more valuable than we think
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion | Primary school teachers are more valuable than we think

Live Mint  

She was 23, living in that village alone, 600km from her parents’ home in Nanjangud near Mysore. The signalling of lower value is reinforced by lower expectations on qualifications: a two-year diploma after class XII for primary-school teachers versus two undergraduate degrees after class XII for teachers of higher classes. This lower valuation of primary school teachers is deeply flawed. And the contribution of teachers of early classes is in many ways more important than that of high-school teachers, since they truly set the foundation for and trajectory of a child’s education. This flawed valuation of teaching roles hobbles the entire teacher management system—in attracting, retaining and engaging teachers in primary and middle schools vis-à-vis high schools.

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