Cutting edge teachers� publication hits shelves
Baboki Kayawe | Wednesday June 29, 2016 14:08
The Teacher’s magazine, as the publication is called, aims to “motivate teachers to do more under these rough and tough years” publisher, Baagi Tshoagong said.
“It aims to motivate teachers where there are so many competing forces against education, taking away the attention of the learners to a galaxy of possibilities which they find more exciting than learning and studying,” she said.
She said teachers must be recognised and supported for their invaluable role at a time where many parents are very busy and somewhat abdicate their parental responsibilities to teachers.
“These are times where social ills have multiplied to inexplicable extents such that there is very little control of the situation.
These are times when we are experiencing the worst results in history and yet teachers still toil on against all odds – teachers still do their part and we must acknowledge their efforts. We must honour and celebrate them. This is what The Teacher’s magazine is all about,” she said.
Tshoagong, a teacher by profession who ventured into educational publishing, said it is critical that the founders of all professions are honoured. She said they are often forgotten for all the efforts that they do to craft children into responsible citizens who then become professionals in different disciplines.
“No professional is what they are from their own efforts. It is the teachers who craft them and make their dreams come true,” she said.
The magazine covers an array of topics carefully selected to address the needs of the teacher, from personal leadership to personal finance, retirement planning, health and wellness and appropriate dress codes among others.
It also offers moving narratives that underpin the human truth behind teaching, stories of teachers in the Diaspora who share their experiences with colleagues at home and reaffirm to them that they do have a lot to offer to the world and others.
Tshoagong holds a Masters Degree in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Her experience in publishing spans two decades, having worked for the then Heinemann Publishers (now an imprint of Pearson Educational Publishers), a UK based educational publishing house.
After those formative years in publishing she set up Medi Publishing house, which in 2012 published the biggest world-class monolingual Setswana dictionary called Tlhalosi ya Medi ya Setswana.