Rachel Jayvanth
Lecturers are involved in a profession which is noble as it is an investment in the lives of students. As lecturers one must keep abreast with the changing trends in teaching. The present generation, with their amazing technical skills, has information at their finger tips and is controlled by the switch of a button. Students at present are battling with the greatest disease of all times, ‘BOREDOM’. The challenge lecturers face now is how to keep our students motivated and passionate. The earlier methods of control and discipline are soon losing its hold on students. A lecturer has to win them over and work as a team leader. When we address a class one should cease to look at students as ones who need to be overloaded with knowledge. The role of a lecturer may not appear to be as prominent as it once was with the traditional methods of teaching, but we need to go alongside the students developing them into leaders. It calls for a paradigm shift from the lecturer centric learning to student centric learning. This paper is an attempt to highlight the role of a lecturer as a leader developer, emphasizing the importance that needs to be given to as to when the process of leadership development begins and the steps involved in this life changing process.
Leadership, Student Centric, Paradigm Shift, Life Changing