Is it a tick of an attendance in the stipulated time for the student to come in and be in the classroom or about ‘Being Present’ in the discourse.
…'How engaging is the discourse for me to be attentive/absorbed in it !’…'It’s so engaging that I drift away physically from that stipulated space pursuing the thought provoked by the engager, working on it in spaces of my choice. I am Present in the class :)’ the tutor is so engaging …
Now in the stipulated frameworks of academics and its standardised prescriptive structure where teaching, learning are bound, the variant is the learner who is in transition of schooling oneself, while learnette, the teacher is constrained by the stipulation.
Institution of higher education (NEP) must address this paradigm of the quality of Engagement and Presence of the pupil in the engagement. And not worry about attendance, a term which may not play a role in the pupil’s performance.
This writing above fails maybe, when you have 100 like students and one teacher in the class.
So shouldn’t we then reinterpret by design, the learning means, the environment, the content structure and the channels of tutoring orchestrated by the tutor, with the sole intent of Engagement, Presence and Learning. The 3 entities for performance.
⁃ this is inspired from Osho talk I heard once who has said to his teacher ‘I am always present…..'
