When the teacher is good at the subject, he won’t face any challenges. When he is not, he has to manage all the challenges. Educators today encounter several significant challenges that impact their ability to deliver effective instruction and support student learning.

1. Indiscipline of Students:
Student behaviour remains one of the major challenges to be tackled. This diversity in students’ backgrounds, coupled with several other factors developing a nonchalant attitude towards authority, makes it hard to instil discipline. Classroom disruptions hamper the smooth running of the learning process and add further pressure to teachers’ work. Effective strategies of classroom management are called for, but even the best teachers find that continuous indiscipline is tiring and distracting to the learning environment as a whole.

2. Lack of Classroom Facilities:
The learning environment should go hand in hand with adequate classroom facilities. However, many teachers are hamstrung by a lack of resources: old technology, insufficient seating, poor lighting, and an inadequate supply of basic materials. That can make it harder to effectively deliver modern techniques and methods of teaching and lower student class engagement. This puts teachers in a position to innovate with limited resources, which is often very time-consuming and less effective.

3. Lack of Proper Evaluation of Students’ Performance: Proper evaluation tells one about the progress of students and helps in tuning one’s instruction accordingly. But unfortunately, many educationists grapple with unsatisfactory systems of evaluation. Standardized testing often fails to capture the student’s learning, and at times it exerts pressure for ‘teaching to the test’ rather than an in-depth understanding of the subject under study. Moreover, big classes could not provide better-personalized feedback.

In addition to the lack of effective assessment tools, it cannot provide a rating of students’ effective performance and therefore does not show the areas that need to be improved. Though some challenges can be arrested by subject mastery in the final analysis, the educator has to steer through many odds that beset his or her path to effective teaching. Corrective steps needed are in the realm of problems of indiscipline, better infrastructure, adequacy of facilities in the classroom, and evolution of better evaluation methods to support the educator for better delivery and value addition for the student.