dimanche 7 mai 2017

The Need For Improving Educators Professional Development

By Janet Meyer


For many people around the world and especially in the underdeveloped and developing nation, education is the key to success. This has led to increased investment and reliability in education as a means of eradicating poverty. With this in mind, teaching has emerged as one of the best paying and respectable occupations for many people. However, payment is conducted on basis of positions held in the various pay grades that are set aside. This discussion follows the reason that may contribute to Improving educators professional development in the course of their career over time.

Level of education that a teacher has. Different qualifications are required to teach in the various institutions both at the lower and higher levels. For instructors to be promoted, they must possess this qualifications and relevant licenses as required by the state. This are aimed at ensuring that the students have the most knowledgeable, educated and qualified instructor coaching them.

The length in years the educator has been working for the school. Long serving instructors are familiar with all the policies that are in existence within the school. They are royal and the institution feels indebted to them and usually wants to retain them. As it is hard to acquire good teachers, the existing ones are motivated through internal recruitment and promotion strategies implementation.

Merits and good scores of teachers in appraisal and performance reports. Motivation is a critical element in ensuring that classes are conducive and effective to the students. Motivation can come in the form of promoting tutor who show excellent merits and have a good class performance. Teacher merits can be measured by observing the results scored by students in examinations.

The physical and market size of a school teachers are employed in is another vital element. Teachers may not advance in career if the positions that they could advance in are not present in the school they teach in. This means that to advance, the positions must be clearly outlined in the school administrative structure. Bigger schools give potential for advancement than small and upcoming schools.

Instructor passion and commitment towards teaching. It goes without saying that teachers deliver the knowledge they have acquired overtime through investment in personal advancement in education to students. To wake up day in day out and attend to students without the feeling of being bothered requires a high degree of passion, love and commitment for teaching.

Gender of the instructor. Recent studies show that the likelihood of men to be promoted to take up more duties and responsibility is high in contrast with the ladies. It is caused by the perception that men are generally more equipped, skilled and able to handle challenges that come with additional obligations as compared to the female colleagues in same institution.

Ethnicity and political influences. There is a saying that goes, man is to error. When positions become vacant in an institution, no matter what transparency measures are implemented, it is nearly impossible to prevent the influences of politics and ethnicity. This influences lead to favoring and promotions of instructors that share cultural ties with the management of institutions they work in at the expense of their peers.




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