Quality Teaching and its Assessment:

Quality teaching is the most important component of the education industry and it is also a contested concept. There are many definitions of quality teaching across the world and all definitions try their best to justify the quality teaching in different social, economical and political contexts. It is a universally accepted fact that quality is the heart of education and quality teachers are the heart of quality education. Right to education is not only the right to access education but it is much more than this, and that is the right to receive quality education through quality teaching. It is found that in general education quality teaching enables students to develop their attributes and skills to achieve their potential as good human beings. It develops general cognitive ability, action competence, key competence, mythological competences, Meta competence and judgment competences in students. It develops the talent of a student to the fullest and enables students to realize their creative potential, realistic, positive self confidence and social competences, it helps students to identify responsibilities of their own life and justify achievements of their personal aims. It enlightens and empowers the students, it enables their personalities, talent and abilities.

The aim of quality teaching is not limited to teaching numeracy and literacy skills to the students. But its aims are also to garner life skills of students such as developing ability among them to make balance and good decisions, resolving conflicts in responsibilities, critical thinking skills, creative talents, general problem solving competence, domain general and domain specific knowledge, problem solving, IT skills, communication skills, writing and presentation skills. It helps students in developing skills in planning, in taking initiatives, it develops potential and strength of monitoring and evaluating their own cognitive processes, experience and knowledge about learning and problem solving. It develops skills of using effective cognitive aids and tools, such as graphics and analogies and learning how to learn.

Assessing the quality of education and teaching is not an easy task but it is a perpetual issue in all forms of education. It is determined by the factors involved such as the inspirational nature of individual lectures, the organization and administration of presentations, interaction with students as participants, judging the performance of students and teachers by analyzing how efficiently information is provided and meeting the learning objectives of the course. Quality teaching can be identified and evaluated in terms of student satisfaction and performance. It can be judged as how teaching is facilitating the students and how efficient the teacher is presenting the information. It can be judged by analyzing the teaching impact. Good presentation of information by the teachers impacts positively and maximizes the students opportunities to excel in class performance and gain highest marks from the courses. Quality in teaching attracts students and engages them with the subjects and enhances their understanding and knowledge.

Thus, for the betterment of the nation’s future quality in education is essential. It is a core fact that teaching excellence is a multidimensional concept and its dimensions call for different forms of recognition and reward. If school, college and universities want to maintain and enhanced quality in teaching then it must be recognized and rewarded to the best. To become a good teacher it is necessary to develop teaching leadership quality which require, high degree of patience, sense of adoption, effective imagination, curiosity, teamwork, risk taking appetite, effective communication, spirit of learning, mentoring ability, effective relation management, dedication, passion for teaching, commitment, enthusiasm, ability to identify underachievement, understanding role of college in student life, educational commonsense, educational IQ, educational physiology, educational philosophy, student physiology, student philosophy, aim of education, need and importance of education, educational ethics, integrity, sense of judgment, knowledge and expertise of subject matter, knowledge of curriculum and standards, efficient and effective classroom management skills, high expectations, futuristic, research orientation, sense of respect, responsibility, macro focusing, innovative, helping, promoting and protecting.

Dr S.M.Tariq Zafar