Tips on making teaching enjoyable
Jan 01, 2006
I congratulate teachers upon completing 2005, especially for persistently working amid inadequate monthly remunerations.<br>I would like to challenge teachers to endeavour to enjoy their jobs by motivating themselves first.
TEACHERS’ DESK - James Isoke
I congratulate teachers upon completing 2005, especially for persistently working amid inadequate monthly remunerations.
I would like to challenge teachers to endeavour to enjoy their jobs by motivating themselves first. The tips below can help teachers enjoy their work:
Teaching is a calling and every teacher should be proud of it in the light of its being a noble profession.
Try to recall the many people who attempted interviews with you, but could not make it. By being disgusted with your own job, you create “hell for yourself on earth.
To love your job as a teacher means being fully knowledgeable of what is necessary to make teaching a likeable job.
This calls for total knowledge of the children you teach, i.e their strengths and weaknesses and readiness to patiently handle them with love, appreciating that they are victims of individual differences.
This is why you carried out “child study†when you were at the College.
The following traits must be reflected in your styles as a teacher:
Mastery of the subjects content, and the desired methodology of how to pass it on to the pupils/students.
Readiness to prepare one’s schemes of work and lesson plans without being pressurised. It is unfortunate for a teacher to be forced to give children homework or mark children’s work with difficulty.
Readiness to prepare instructional materials relevant to one’s given lessons. Ability to effectively utilise one’s environment in the process of making instructional materials is commendable, especially in our African schools.
It is self-defeating for a teacher to fail to make their classroom environment attractive to the children and the visitors who enter the classroom.
Ability to look at one’s pupils as more of individuals than a group and realisation that they come from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, but with potentials of becoming useful and great people from whom one could gain substantially when they render their services to the country.
Total knowledge and practice of the teacher’s code of conduct.
Capacity to make use of the teaching profession to promote further studies. It is easier for a teacher to read on their own than other professionals.
Relatedly, teachers have more time to carryout research, contribute towards educating society on topical issues and should be ready to share knowledge with others.
Ability to wisely plan for one’s meagre resources and live within the ideal economic and social standards.
For example, it is unwise for a teacher to go in for two wives or lavishly spend his salary on prostitutes.
Being knowledgeable of your rights as a teacher, but using them diplomatically, and identification with teachers’ associations which promote unity and cohesion of teachers.
Determination to work towards leaving behind a legacy such that all the pupils/students you teach look at you as their mentor.
Most importantly, put God first in your day-to-day work. Without God, you can do nothing. And remember that the Bible warns that not all of us should become teachers, as we shall be judged most.
The writer is the district education officer of Hoima
077473213
jamesisoke@yahoo.com
I congratulate teachers upon completing 2005, especially for persistently working amid inadequate monthly remunerations.
I would like to challenge teachers to endeavour to enjoy their jobs by motivating themselves first. The tips below can help teachers enjoy their work:
Teaching is a calling and every teacher should be proud of it in the light of its being a noble profession.
Try to recall the many people who attempted interviews with you, but could not make it. By being disgusted with your own job, you create “hell for yourself on earth.
This calls for total knowledge of the children you teach, i.e their strengths and weaknesses and readiness to patiently handle them with love, appreciating that they are victims of individual differences.
This is why you carried out “child study†when you were at the College.
The following traits must be reflected in your styles as a teacher:
It is self-defeating for a teacher to fail to make their classroom environment attractive to the children and the visitors who enter the classroom.
For example, it is unwise for a teacher to go in for two wives or lavishly spend his salary on prostitutes.
The writer is the district education officer of Hoima
077473213
jamesisoke@yahoo.com