Who is a Teacher? We all have different definitions but I will only stick to the one defined by a beautiful Princess of this platform ππ
A teacher is an experienced person who is been trained professionally after going through all required exams and is being qualified as one who is capable of helping the inexperienced achieve their goals in the school setting. - PrincessBusayo 2021
No one is licenced to use my definition without proper sourcing and taking permission from me π π
It is just a pity that here in Nigeria, everyone is allowed to be a teacher without having the experience and this is why we have unqualified People employed into different classes to teach students. For you to permit a person to help train other people, he or she must have been scrutinized vividly and tested to see if such person meet up with the criteria of becoming a good teacher to others.
I have a lady who just completed her NCE (Nigeria Certificate in Education) this year and was employed as a Nursery Class Teacher. She will always come to me to help her in searching for the meaning of a particular word. She has an Android phone and I wonder what she uses it for. Just Yoruba Movies?? She can't even communicate in English except she replies you in her native language (Yoruba) π
Then, I had to stop helping her and I decided to switch on my hotspot for her because she was with an excuse that she doesn't have data to check online. I then connected my data to her phone but to my surprise, she asked me where Google is and how to check what she was searching for?. I couldn't close my mouth and I showed her what she hasn't been using on her phone.
This is very bad for a Nursery Class Teacher and an NCE Graduate to still be searching for examples of Kitchen Utensils from Googleπ€·π€·
I was like "Who employed her as a teacher?" π
How do your student cope or perform when you as a teacher do not have knowledge of anything in your brain? Will you always go to meet people to help you out without trying your own best?. A teacher who isn't vast in technology, how do you teach your pupils or students? Your student's performance whether good or bad are a product of what a teacher gives out.
TEACHERS AS PARENTS
In Sociology, there is something called "IN LOCO PARENTIS" What does it mean? Every teacher has a role to play in every children's lives in the school. Children have two parents in the world. Their own biological parents at home and their teachers at school.
Teachers are to perform their roles as "In Loco Parentis" to help shoulder the responsibility like their parents at home. You have to be a role model to them by teaching them the right morals and values to be exhibited in them especially in the society they may find themselves.
TEACHERS AS IMITATOR
You will notice that all children want to do what their teachers tell them rather than what their parents tells them. When a child is given an assignment from school and has been warned not to give anyone to help them. When they get home, they make sure they do it themselves without allowing anyone help them. Most times, when their parents are helping them in their assignment and it is different from what their teachers taught them, they quickly open up and say "This is not how my teacher taught me" To them, their teachers and right while their parents are wrong.
So as a teacher, remember children imitate you and your behavior. You must be a good role model to these children because of their future and to help them improve in their performances at school.
Also as a role model, you should be able to curb all kinds of Deviant Behaviors. These are behaviors that deviates the norms and values of a school and even society. What are they?
Truancy
Examination Malpractice
Rape
Lateness to school
Lack of respect to other teachers
Bullying
Cultism etc
All of these are the responsibilities of every teacher to monitor in the school and make sure they act and behave in an orderly manner so they can become good people in their environment.
I think I have enlightened us more on who a teacher is and what they are expected to do as role models. I love to be a teacher and I have determined to be a good one at that so I can have a good Testimony later in the future.
I am so happy for the little ones I taught then and they made me realize that teaching is a profession one should hold onto dearly and not take for granted.
Thanks for reading
I love how you define teachers in your way. You're indeed a great one. π