The trends of educational television and the attitude of students from the point of view of government school teachers

Abstract

Students are the great wealth of a country and the pillars of its future society. Teachers in educational institutions are engaged in the work of carving, polishing, and turning such student wealth into diamonds. Anything to start with needs a strong foundation. Accordingly, it is the schools that provide a strong foundation for the students by introducing them to the alphabet, writing, numbers, other languages, science, and social sciences. The teachers are engaged in teaching the students in these schools. Students should come to school from home, sit in the classroom, and observe the lessons conducted by the teacher. There is a shortage of teachers in many government schools. Many factors, such as lack of teaching, affected the academic performance of the students. As a result, enrollment in government schools has started declining, and enrollment in private schools has started increasing. In such a situation, the students are going through separate classes called tuitions after observing the lessons in the school for marks. With the development of modern technology today, television media is doing its job of educating students all over the world in one place. In such a situation, students, without a teacher, have to learn lessons from where they are. There should be no dropouts. One should learn on one's own rather than attending individual classes called 'tuition.' In 2019, Education TV was launched in Tamil Nadu with the objective of developing their personality skills. It diligently carried out the task of educating schoolchildren through television. It's still doing it today. During the COVID-19 lockdown, students at private schools learned lessons in online classes. It was education television that helped the government school students who were at home. Students are going back to school and studying after the COVID-19 cases subside. The teachers themselves are now teaching in person. How educational television is in today's context? What subjects are given importance in it? The purpose of this article is to examine, from the point of view of government schoolteachers, what kind of change it has brought about among the students.