To Make Teaching a Career of Challenges, Innovations and Aspirations

A teacher fondly called as a ‘Preceptor’ who
dispels the dullness of intellect and leads one to
the path of enlightenment has been looked upon
with awe and inspiration from times immemorial.
As the needs of the learner has become more and
more expansive and demanding now the teacher
has multiple roles to play and is needed to have
multi-faceted skills to live up to the expectation
of the learner. Formerly teaching was chosen as a
career with interest and teacher was revered as a
respectable citizen of the society. There was a
stop gap when teaching became a forced vocation
if one did not get a better opportunity.
Now with education becoming more and more
holistic there is need for teachers who are
facilitators, mentors and multi-talented. The
paper examines the changing role of a teacher
who has a multi-dimensional approach to his/her
profession. The paper looks at how teaching in
the current scenario is gaining momentum as a
sought after career with better scope for
expanding the ‘Knowledge Horizon’. Great
teachers are made because of their expertise w.r.t
knowledge, domain, attitude, dedication,
sincerity, accountability and transparency. Their
roles are not limited to class room teaching but go
much beyond that as men and women of grit who
shape the youth to become globally competent to
face the real challenges of the world and extend
their helping hands in ‘Nation Building’. Real
life examples of great teachers would be included
in the paper as case studies to show how
‘Teaching Profession was given a new and
exciting dimension by these icons.’