Question

As a teacher, how will you practice democratic values in the class room?
1. By organising prayer
2. By collaborating with students to plan their work
3. By conducting quiz programmes
4. By imparting rigid discipline

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : By collaborating with students to plan their work
By collaborating with students to plan their work, a teacher can practice democratic values in the classroom.

• Collaborating means working with another person or group in order to achieve or do something.
• When the teacher is collaborating with students, he/she is cooperating with them to plan their work.
• Cooperation is an essential component of democratic values practiced in the classroom.
• Cooperation as a principle of democracy has to be utilized in education in all its aspects - starting from planning to execution, from teaching to evaluation.
• The participation of teachers in the planning process plays an important role to activate students in the teaching-learning process.

As a teacher, one can practice democratic values in the classroom by collaborating with students to plan their work.