The Need for Teachers’ Self Assessment and Improvement

As a teacher, never you think the responsibility before you is a joke. Even when the school is on break, work just begins in earnest. Teaching is a serious business. No profession is as taxing as teaching.

This long break from arduous pedagogic work only creates an enabling environment for us teachers to engineer new, efficacious methodologies which make work easier for us.

To record groundbreaking pedagogic successes next session, teachers do not relax and/or engage in frivolous activities during this period.

A good teacher, who is always concerned about the academic welfare of their learners, considers this break to carry out a self assessment and evaluation on their past assignments.

Dedicated teachers ponder on the schemes of work for the next academic session. And before resumption, they get the schemes of work, work assiduously on them and break them into smaller units in order to facilitate understanding among the learners.

The personality of a teacher is a marketing strategy for the school. Dereliction of duty communicates a dangerous, negative message about the school.

Clients, that is the parents or guardians, value a school where teachers are always up and doing, where every teacher is willing and ready to channel their effort into the academic wellbeing of the learners. This is the reason teachers are expected to come up with programmes that will not only engross and fascinate the parents but also the children.

Parents are so much concerned about the psychological wellbeing of the teachers to whom they entrust their children. Melancholic teachers are a danger to the school. Teachers are expected to be cheerful, ready to receive their learners and impart knowledge to them. This holiday period is an avenue for teachers to work on their challenges. They sit back and evaluate themselves. It is advisable they identify their weaknesses and work on them. They review their strengths for a significant improvement.

Long holiday period is leveraged to work on competence. Schools organise seminars for teachers to improve the quality of their services.

Finally, this is a period when most parents make a choice about their children’s school. They get the children registered in a school to evaluate the services rendered by the school. Parents’ decisions are informed by the teachers’ pedagogic services during this holiday period.