Teachers, demonstrate proficiency

Letters

THE 2020 academic year commences this week and everyone is looking forward to start by filling the resumption of duty and other necessary forms.
I take this time to pay tribute to our colleagues who died during the cause of duty or as a result of misfortunes in the past years.
Our utmost provision as teachers is to serve the children so they are educated appropriately and bring the country to another juncture in the future.
Irrespective of which level or division you are as a member of the 70,000 plus teaching staff (elementary, primary, high, secondary, national high or colleges), let’s work together in implementing our responsibilities with pride, dignity and honesty.
The accountants, agriculturalists, lawyers, medical doctors, engineers, electricians to name a few have their own responsibilities to serve the people.
Let’s use the Teaching Service code of ethics to demonstrate our colour and proficiency.
If you haven’t been thoughtful in your teaching career over the past years and dictated by financial or material desires, you need to stop and transform from those routines. All in all, you and I are chosen and conferred with teaching gifts by God to aid others as instructors.
Let us be innovative in our approach in teaching with clear teaching strategies to deliver valued information to students.
Be selective and teach what is of value.
Do not wait for school administrators and inspectors to tell you these simple practices.

Jack Anis Kukiwa,
Colleague, LAE