Effective classroom learning is
foundation to produce successful human capital. Learning deficiencies brings
social exclusion and poverty among individuals. Sadly saying that education
implementers show lack of interest in prioritizing classroom learning practices
in most of the schools which results in reproducing low performance in basic
literacy and numeracy. In this regard The World Bank Report (2018) states that,
“In urban Pakistan in 2015, only three-fifths of grade 3 students could
correctly perform a subtraction such as 54 – 25, and in rural areas only just
over two-fifths could do it”. The world report further depicts that hundreds and
millions of children reach to their adulthood without knowing basic reading,
writing and calculating skills. Even without having skills of how to write a
simple application or, reading a doctor’ prescription. Such deficiencies among
individuals tend to show low standards in delivery of performance in any working
context. The president World Bank Group Jim Young says that Learning crisis is a
moral crisis. Because it bring social injustice, instability and restrictions in
development. Resultly many students in developing countries miss opportunities
of employment due to not coping with various verbal and written tests and
examinations or tend to spend their life by acquiring low wages and inadequate
compensations. The individuals whom society is failing most are the ones who
must need a good education to get success in their life.
Learning shortfalls during the school years eventually show up as weak skills in
later life when individuals inter into a profession. Thus the job skills debate
reflects the learning crisis. Because education systems have not prepared
workers adequately, many enter in employment with inadequate skills. Recent
studies of various countries show very low performance in individuals learning
even in basis literacy and numeracy, let alone the more advanced skills.
Consequently lack of essential skills affect job quality, earnings, and labor
mobility and at the end looing jobs at all.
Contrary schooling with learning produces active and productive individuals and
maintains social balance. It promotes employment, earnings, health, and reduces
poverty. Learning brings inclusiveness, social harmony and innovations and
strengthen institutions for maximizing social benefits at larger level.
How it will be possible for system to overcome low-learning dilemma and reaching
towards improvement? We can get learning through several ways;
First and most important thing that, we cannot import wholesale into new
contexts, we can use them as starting points for our new innovations by taking
initiations from classrooms and schools and from learners’ level. Teachers’
increasing awareness of different learning styles, backgrounds, experiences and
learning needs, teaching becomes a more reflective practice. In this way the
teacher observes his or her own teaching, what is happening in the learning
process and makes a critical assessment as to what is working and what is not. A
number of interventions, innovations, and approaches have resulted in
substantial gains in learning with new taste tend to boost students and teachers
motivation and passion for learning. Systems should critically work on to
improve elements such as learners’ preparation, teacher skills and quality of
school management as well as financing and resource distribution. Therefore
aligning school management from top to bottom to focus their attention towards
learning can be fruitful to get award of learning. System managers must have
capability to handle technical and political constrains to bring learning into
school and classroom.
Second, important factor is sustained commitments to reforming the quality
through system level reforms in education. Imperatively need to reform our
assessment system like Finland where it topped the assessment. More recently,
Chile, Peru, Poland, and the United Kingdom have made serious, sustained
commitments to reforming the quality of their education systems has improved
learning at great level and is paying off (World Development Report 2018). All
have made learning assessment as a serious goal by using results to bring
improvement in delivery of education.