It's a new day and let's appreciate God for life. How did you spend your yesterday? Did you achieve your short term goals? Let's remember that while focusing on our short term goals, we shouldn't forget to see how far we are going with the long term goals which we have planned for the future.
Today, it would be a different topic because I would be delving into the world of teaching. I love teaching profession and I must say this to you that for you to become a certified teacher, then you must have undergone some training and accumulate some credits to yourself. It is just like one who is going into law and is called to bar and would have to undergo some trainings to be fully called a lawyer.
Just anyhow person can never be a teacher because when you do not have the knowledge of teaching, how do you expect your pupils or students to understand what you don't know.
So, let's talk about the national curriculum. A curriculum comprises of planned learning experiences that a student must acquire for a Quality Education. It is also the subject comprising of course of study in the school (college or university). A nation should not require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter higher college schools.
With my knowledge in the school setting, and my experiences during my primary and secondary school, we have been mandated to study the same curriculum even in different schools especially in public schools. Most private schools also inculcate the same curriculum provided to them by the national.
While it is necessary for a nation to have a basic or fundamental curriculum for all schools before entering college, fundamentals like learning algebraic, knowing where to use verbs, adjectives, pronouns and other relevant things to serve as fundamental for every child in school, I think a nation should not require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Students are amazing and creative too. Every children are created in different ways and with different abilities. The way a student can solve mathematical problems can be different from how another students would tackle such problems using the same curriculum that the nation has provided for all to follow.
Let's take for an example, a student may have interest in things related to engineering and while another has interest in things related to music, when you have these types of students studying the same thing that are not related to what their interests are, they might find difficulty in comprehending for a very long time and they might not enjoy all that learning is about because they are only restricted to what the nation has built for them to abide with.
Talking about learning, the students and the curriculum, there is definitely something missing which is obvious and it is the teachers. Teachers play an important role in the lives of students and it is how a teacher explains or delivers his or her study using the curriculum that would determine the academic performance of students and how well a student would comprehend faster in class, to be able to apply it outside and within the school.
So, it is very important for teachers to understand what they are doing and teaching the students and also to enjoy what they are teaching. Desiring to support a curriculum that is proposed by the nation to all schools, the teachers might encounter some difficulties along the way because they might not have enough resources that aligns with what is in the curriculum. This would definitely be a barrier to dishing out the best for all students.
A teacher may find a textbook not good enough because she doesn't understand what is written in the curriculum, whereas there are some who found joy teaching what is in the curriculum and this will make the former teacher to be inefficient than the other because she is not enjoying the routine of the curriculum.
Viewing through the eyes of the parents, they might find it hard dealing with things like this because most of the parent will be forced to fall into categories of the rich, average and poor because they will withdraw their ward from schools like that due to the inability to afford those things rich parents can afford under the government. The government should ensure stability and flexibility in every decision making process.
Thanks for taking your time today on my blog
|October 28, 2021|
Back then in my secondary school, they use to put all of us in the same class, both art, science and social science, your score in SS1 will determine the class you will be in SS2 to 3. Most people who wanted to be in science class but end up scoring low in science subject, will be taken to art class.