Compulsions of Nepali Lecturer

Being a lecturer, I must understand the obligation of Nepali Lecturers. Putting myself into their shoes, what I feel is that they are compelled to be busy. It may be not their intention to teach in various colleges but the different circumstances are making them do so rather than solely selfishness. In this post, I am trying to clarify some of the main hurdles due to which they are not being able to give full time to the same college.

Teaching in the same college full time is very important for student and lecturer both, but, the things are not as easy as we are saying here because due to its seasonal nature, lecturers are used to searching in various colleges. Once they get a class, its duration will be within particular month only. After completing the courses, they remain futile and unemployed. They even do not know whether they get another class to teach there or not because of nepotism and relativism. So, they do not want to lose the classes as far as they get it somewhere.

Furthermore, the salary, we get while teaching here, is not so handsome and we get salary lately due to which it is our necessity to seek another option to maintain their hand to mouth. Lectures’ life is not so fancy in Nepal nevertheless some bright hope still persists. While observing even in India, the case is just opposite to Nepal, they are highly paid with handsome salary.

Likewise, we are used to moving into various colleges to establish link with them. It creates the environment to show acquaintance with more students, too.  Moving into different colleges helps us to be familiar in the market. We will get a chance to proper exposure in the market. With the increase and more experience, it helps us to foster our career so that the jobs remain stable in another way.

But, this sort of moving may not be suitable for all. Those who are perfect in their subject can do such job which may not be appropriate for other lecturers. It deteriorates their career rather than upgrading. It would be very hard to maintain if we do not have strong knowledge of the content we are teaching. In this situation, it is better to study hard first and teach students wisely.

To conclude, though we are being besieged by such hurdles and complexities, we have to try to give much information to our students wherever we teach. We should not play with their lives. We have to create the environment for them even in phone, email, chat, et cetera.

Major Problems of Teachers.

With the course of my life, I have linked with many teachers in Kathmandu. Being a Computer Science lecturer, my linkages are with only those teachers from those subjects. Studying about these problems among those teachers, I have enlisted some of the important points here.

Firstly, the teachers here in Kathmandu are being focused on money. What they want is money rather than students' career. We can see few availability of the teachers due to their busyness. They want to  take a lot of classes to earn more money. Sometimes, they can be termed as helmet teacher.Students can not find them whenever they want, thereby creating the problematic environment for students.  Due to the less availability of teachers, students are being in a situation to use internet, which may not be always perfect way .

Secondly, teachers are not understanding about students psychology. They are not trying to get their students intention. Due to their gap between students, students are not being satisfied.  Thus, they are being rejected by students.

Thirdly, core contents of the course is main deceit for them. They are not studying the contents properly due to their less time and attention. They do not have enough time  to pay attention due to their hectic schedule of teaching in various colleges.Rather than providing quality, they are emphasizing on quantity. The more class they take, the more money they earn.

By and large, students are the pillar of a nation. Earning money and maintaining life style may be one part for teacher, but cheating students and their lives is no more than killing pollard of many young plants. Consequently, rather than emphasizing on money, pay attention towards your students because a lot of plants will give  you some sort of shade in future.

Student Psychology and Teaching.

Today, the class was very funny for me because  while I was teaching in front of my students, they were shouting at me.I was unhappy considering that they were not getting me. Whenever I started repeating every lecture, they were shouting even more loudly. They were shouting because their eyes were concentrating to the live cricket score on their mobile rather than study. Due to a bit large hall, I was not seeing about the situation of every student. After knowing such, I stopped my class and started playing jokes with students. Then after, I told them to pay attention towards their study and they paid their attention. We should understand what they want.

Furthermore, It may be my weakness to be so loose for those activities. I have heard that many teachers are used to giving physical punishment in the name of controlling those behaviors, but I am not in favor of those strategies. Students are the pollard of a plant. Once they are tortured, how can we dream of nice plant? how can they give nice fruits in the future? Really, rather than giving such torture, they should be self-taught.

But, leaving them freely, thinking about liberty merely, may be not be a solution to make those buds stronger enough. What we need to do is to understand their psychology so that we can use their brain cent percent. Any one can teach , but its difficult to find those teacher who are meticulous about students interest.We have to create the homely environment while teaching rather than being cruel and brutal, which  many teachers are acclimating such strategies today.

What my student did in a class?

One day in a college, there was a small meeting of Microsoft Student Partners' program. Being a teacher, it was our responsibility to present there. We, Nabin and me, were presenting there with our lovely students. One my best student, from B.Sc CSIT fifth semester, Puran, was taking photo in a very stylish pose and I was, too, smiling for his photo. It was my first time to appear there.

After some days, Puran, a senior year student from Ambition College, put this photo into his  micro-blogging website, where I was clicked like Charlie Chaplin, a great comedian hahah. Below my nose, mustache was like that comedian. They were really making me such comedian.Anyway, thanks to my dear students.I am ready to be whatever you want for the betterment of your career.