Monday, 1 October 2012

What's in Complete Teacher's Diary? A vital quest for teachers & School Administrators

Complete Teacher's Diary


 


THE idea to publish a Complete Teacher’s Diary (CTD) takes its source from the result of a research work that established that “the school shares equal time with the Home to give an extension of social environment that connects with the Home.”
    However, as the research established further, the time shared between the home and the school is the 16 hours of physical activeness out of the daily 24 hours. According to the hypothesis inferred thereof, there must be a process of complementary nexus between their (school and home’s) respective 8 hours before a sound morality can be built in the child, especially at the adolescent phase of growth.
    Establishing that the burden of poverty engendered by corruption has consistently weighed down on every stakeholder in education – being parent, teacher and the school administrator.  With limitation of the consequential focus of struggle to self survival, the child is having less and less of attention from these stakeholders.
    A premise of the research work as published in the book of Razaq Adedeji Jimoh: Educational and Enterpreneurship as Ideal Arsenal in a Political Revolution, page 169 reads:
“The prevailing Socio-economic problems caused by poor governance (from) consistent leadership failure overtime have caused a variation in the responsibility goals of the school and the home to the child, as survival from harsh economic endeavours pushed the monetary value before the morals’”.
    How much could this be true? The author analyses further: “As the school strives to maximize profits from the dwindling economic fortune from its operating environment – characterized by the problems of multiple taxation and collapsed social infrastructure; the home strives to make ends meets for the fulfillment of its primary obligations -- being feeding, clothing  and educating the child. These different survival instincts converge at the point of selfishness in respective economic and social goals that eventually leave the child at the mercy of the ubiquitous debauch monster called immorality”.
    But how does the school pursue its survival goal? The book explains: “In the school is the employment of economic wizardry of resource management that causes high Teachers/Pupils Ratio (TPR) currently at 1:75 (which is still on the rise but currently at 1:75), unproductive staff rationalization, exploitation of parents from the advantage of education as a necessity, engagement of incompetent staff, limitation of responsibility to ‘learning’ only – to make ‘character building’ an outright inconsequential.

The Conceived Theme of CTD:   
From the point of this author’s view, the CTD derives its concept of idea from a careful study of the problem of this extra burden from the combined effect of the high TPR and staff rationalization. It should be explained here that staff rationalization means adopting less number of teachers to do more work, such as a teacher made to handle subjects of physics, mathematics and Introductory Technology. The CTD is therefore structured as a solution in mitigation of this burden through a made-easy work planning and on-the-job engagement that directs the ultimate objectives of the teacher’s professional activities to fulfilling Character and Learning as the core goals of education.
    In further clear term regarding pursuit of these goals, the CTD has a frame work of the class methodology in paths and procedures to implementing character building in schools from the angle of school/home connect process. But in secondary significance, CTD tries to organize the professional life of the teacher with dynamics that connect the future to the present so that a teacher easily builds a history of precedence for a complete professional platform required to bring out the best of creativity associated with teaching profession.
    Recognizing that school, like any social system, has a body structure of two parts: the leadership and the follower -- being the administrator and staff in respective metonymy; the CTD is tailor-made for both the school administrator and teacher with schedules of connectivity that emphasizes unity of the school in purpose of responsibility to the parents. Thus in key features, while the teachers copy comes with general purpose internal memo, the administrator’s copy’s is with external memo with the school’s letterhead and identity custom. The trouble we go through to make this so is the unique selling point of YEMAB Publishers & Enterprises, the pioneer and copy right owner publisher of the Complete Teacher’s Diary.

Fundamental objectives of CTD in list:
(i.)          Allows best of class management strategy that brings out the professional creativity in the teacher.

(ii.)         Builds convenience of enhanced teaching skills.

(iii.)        Makes the teacher dynamic for the class to be interesting for the student’s interests.

(iv.)        Makes class planning so convenient with on-the-job and on-the-go bases for the required dynamism.

(v.)         Make accountability easier for both the teacher and school administrator.

(vi.)        Empowers the school managers with resourceful administrative skills in planning with most effective strategy that balances teacher-parents interests.

(vii.)       Provides instant record documentation and easy referencing.

(viii.)     Balances schedule of work with private life activities of the teacher.

(ix.)        Holds a potential material values for a teacher’s trace of his foot prints in service to humanity through education.

(x.)         And above all, a biography of a teacher is readily made with Complete Teacher’s Diary.

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