Teacher promotion scheme on
Sep 15, 2009
THE secondary school teachers’ scheme of service will be implemented this year, the commissioner for education standards, Kedrace Turyagyenda, has said.
By Caleb Bahikaho
THE secondary school teachers’ scheme of service will be implemented this year, the commissioner for education standards, Kedrace Turyagyenda, has said.
“The policy started last year with 4,000 primary school teachers getting promoted,†Turyagyenda said. She made the remarks on Friday during the two-day training workshop for the board of governors and teachers at Kinyasano Girls’ High School in Rukungiri district.
The workshop was organised by the school management and the education standards directorate. Turyagyenda said the scheme will enable secondary school teachers to be promoted.
She was reacting to a query from a teacher who demanded to know the use of performance forms as far as promotion was concerned.
Turyagyenda said the forms would help the ministry in selecting teachers for promotion, demotion and improvement of performance.
The workshop discussed the teachers’ code of conduct, how to identify a good and effective teacher, performance management, self assessment and evaluation, the role of head of departments, the role of the board of governors and management of appraisal forms.
She urged school heads to avail documents concerning teachers on their notice boards like the education policy, teachers’ scheme policy and the code of conduct.
“It is a shame that there are teachers who have been teaching for 20 years but have never seen a teachers’ code of conduct,†he said.
Closing the workshop, the district chairperson, Zedekia Karokora, said teachers had a role to play in the fight against poverty through education.
“Education is said to be the cure of poverty, but teachers can also make it the source of poverty,†he said. “Parents sell property to pay school fees thinking that the children will get it back after studying. It will be unfortunate for a parent who sold off his belongings to have his child failing,†Karokora added.
THE secondary school teachers’ scheme of service will be implemented this year, the commissioner for education standards, Kedrace Turyagyenda, has said.
“The policy started last year with 4,000 primary school teachers getting promoted,†Turyagyenda said. She made the remarks on Friday during the two-day training workshop for the board of governors and teachers at Kinyasano Girls’ High School in Rukungiri district.
The workshop was organised by the school management and the education standards directorate. Turyagyenda said the scheme will enable secondary school teachers to be promoted.
She was reacting to a query from a teacher who demanded to know the use of performance forms as far as promotion was concerned.
Turyagyenda said the forms would help the ministry in selecting teachers for promotion, demotion and improvement of performance.
The workshop discussed the teachers’ code of conduct, how to identify a good and effective teacher, performance management, self assessment and evaluation, the role of head of departments, the role of the board of governors and management of appraisal forms.
She urged school heads to avail documents concerning teachers on their notice boards like the education policy, teachers’ scheme policy and the code of conduct.
“It is a shame that there are teachers who have been teaching for 20 years but have never seen a teachers’ code of conduct,†he said.
Closing the workshop, the district chairperson, Zedekia Karokora, said teachers had a role to play in the fight against poverty through education.
“Education is said to be the cure of poverty, but teachers can also make it the source of poverty,†he said. “Parents sell property to pay school fees thinking that the children will get it back after studying. It will be unfortunate for a parent who sold off his belongings to have his child failing,†Karokora added.