Crushed Amongst Teacher Guides and Students in Practice of Teaching: Guiding Teacher Learning

Abstract

From Introduction: Among all the professions in the world, teaching is a very familiar profession to almost everybody. In Sri Lanka there are about 179590 teachers and out of them about 71836 teach at the primary level. Of the 10300 schools in the island 2809 are primary schools, and in most of the other schools (6944) there is a primary section. In Sri Lanka, parents plan to send their child to a good school even before a baby is born. They try to buy land and build houses close to a good school so that they will be able to send the child to a good school. Some leave their own homes and rent a house close to a good school. The electricity and water bills are produced as proof of residence. According to them "good schools" are the schools which produced “good results” at the scholarship examination conducted at the end of the primary level, G.C.E. O/L and A/L (General Certificate of Education, Ordinary Level and Advanced Level.)