Role of teachers in inculcating values among students | Saraswati Shishukunj (2024)

School plays a major role in any student’s life and has an immense and significant impact on their morale and personality development. In schools teachers and friends are the two-person who have an exerted influence to build up our values. Educational institutions should include the value education for children it can be in a formal way or in an informal way. There are certain steps which can be included in the schools to educate students about the value:

Every student should be responsible for their own actions and words. They should know that they are accountable for their actions whether they are positive or negative. They should learn to respect and how to treat other people. Being kind is one of the key values.

What we see is what we follow the most. After family, teachers act as a role model for the students as they are the one who is seen more in the schools. Students behave in the same manner how their role model is behaving. Students learn the actions of their respective role models and apply that in their behavior with their peers.

Some of the basic morals and values are taught in the home but some of them are taught by the teachers/ role models. The teachers should put attention to teaching it through various methods. The method used to be creative and interesting to bring and retain the interest of the students. It can be some sort of activity, the narrative that motivates them to get indulge in the good deed behavior.

The teacher should appreciate and always try to motivate students for their good work. They should also encourage them to develop pro-social behavior. Students should be taught to help others and be kind and honest with others.

Teaching about inculcation of values in school help the students to develop their skills and their overall personality. They get to know about their obligations, different cultures, what is right and what is wrong. Values help to have an understanding of what is morally and ethically right and wrong. It defines a proper way to behave in society.

Treating value learning as a subject or having its chalk talk separately turns to be boring for students. Teachers are very well aware of how and what can bring in the interest of their students. So, they should indulge them to learn it in the way they would get involved. Some of the ways to incorporate it are to include values in the prayers, in certain subjects such as social science which depicts our values.

Education is not just about having a mark sheet or holding a degree it is all about to evolve the capacity of human intelligence so that they can be socially answerable and can be a part of a nation’s development. This all can only take place when childhood is embedded with the values and it should take place in the school itself. Co-curricular activities such as debate, story-writing or telling, dramas, etc are an appropriate way to teach about values.

When the interaction takes place through stories it provides convenience to analyze why action is taken and what are its consequences and to bring a conclusion morally. It provides the ability to see if they would be in such a situation what might be their actions and compare the story with their own experience as to how to handle things with being morally correct.