TEACHERS’ DESK:
Sep 25, 2005
<b>Learning the art of report writing</b><br>RECENTLY, we saw the importance of a report card and what should be included by the teachers. However, students’ reports are not the only reports teachers are supposed to write.
By Mary Muddu
RECENTLY, we saw the importance of a report card and what should be included by the teachers. However, students’ reports are not the only reports teachers are supposed to write.
Teachers are expected to write reports after attending a workshop, seminar, short course or carrying out an investigation.
Such reports are important because a school cannot afford to send all its teachers to a seminar, a workshop or a short course. So, the teacher, who attends should prepare a report to benefit all his/her colleagues.
The report should cover the aim, main objectives, a brief account of what was done, the outcome, group recommendations and his/her recommendation for the school drawn from the group recommendations. Such a report can be used to improve particular aspects of the school or to introduce new ones.
There are also investigation/study trip/field work reports. These involve students and teachers. The report can be along the same structure as the one for seminars. The rest of the school can learn from this report. Future activities in the school can be based on it.
School reports are very brief while seminar and investigation reports are more detailed.
However, if they are too long, the-would-be readers are tempted to put them away for reading later. A short attractive report tends to get immediate attention. Poster reporting is very suitable for investigations and projects.
Photographs and little writing are used to show all the stages from the beginning to the end on one page.
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RECENTLY, we saw the importance of a report card and what should be included by the teachers. However, students’ reports are not the only reports teachers are supposed to write.
Teachers are expected to write reports after attending a workshop, seminar, short course or carrying out an investigation.
Such reports are important because a school cannot afford to send all its teachers to a seminar, a workshop or a short course. So, the teacher, who attends should prepare a report to benefit all his/her colleagues.
The report should cover the aim, main objectives, a brief account of what was done, the outcome, group recommendations and his/her recommendation for the school drawn from the group recommendations. Such a report can be used to improve particular aspects of the school or to introduce new ones.
There are also investigation/study trip/field work reports. These involve students and teachers. The report can be along the same structure as the one for seminars. The rest of the school can learn from this report. Future activities in the school can be based on it.
School reports are very brief while seminar and investigation reports are more detailed.
However, if they are too long, the-would-be readers are tempted to put them away for reading later. A short attractive report tends to get immediate attention. Poster reporting is very suitable for investigations and projects.
Photographs and little writing are used to show all the stages from the beginning to the end on one page.
Ends