THEM....

I think, there are two categories in which we can broadly divide our learners..

One, those who need extra time to work and

two, those who need extra work to time.

The slow learners and the ones who work after class hours to support their family belong to the first category. There is a need to pace down for them as they need more time to grab their learning. And in the course, if they could achieve only 3 objectives in 10, it is worth. Definitely, they would reach the 10 in their own pace. (But we are too impatient, aren’t we?)

The next group is those from the higher end, who can take up better challenges... They need to be given some tough tasks to meet with. Or else classrooms would be the most boring places for them. I remember one of my students once said that the school was a dull place for him, as it offered nothing challenging.

Unfortunately we all work for an average. We pull some of them up from below or pull some others down from above to maintain a mediocre standard. Trying to create uniformity may lead either to monotony or to frustration.

That means to have a better standard we need to face the needs of different learners in different ways.