Quality, commitment to teaching profession
Friday, May 19, 2023 | 20 Views |
And it is indeed a truism that the quality of the education a school is dispensing cannot exceed the quality of the teachers. That is to say what teachers say or do in the classroom shapes the destiny of students.
If I were asked to say how can all schools achieve the desired student learning outcomes, my simple response would be switch on the teachers. Given the centrality of the teacher factor in the quest for improved educational outcomes, it is not a farfetched conclusion that a school can only go down the drain when its teachers are switched off. Expressing their faith and trust in the game changing prowess of the teacher factor, renowned Harvard scholars Rachel E. Curtis and Elizabeth A. City, made it sufficiently clear that when subjected to a consistent and rigorous teaching regimen for a period of three years, students are bound to make dramatic and significant academic gains.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...