Talk About The Teacher’s Responsibility in The Current Situation of Educational Quality
There is much talk these days the quality of education and the media engages in disputes over the responsibility of teachers in low performance exhibited by Chilean students. On the other hand, teachers complain that they always prove them guilty and nowhere meeting rigorous analysis on teacher quality. By the way, I am convinced that teacher quality has a significant impact on teaching and learning processes.
Certainly, as I have stated several times before, that some of the problems of our public education pass through the administrative and financial mismanagement and, indeed, this is explained by the autonomy of managers no teachers in local authority educational establishments . Without autonomy to decide, not to be blamed for the failure to a greater extent than their fair share of their lack of academic leadership.
What about teachers? I think that if managers can not have autonomy in the management of resources, can not therefore provide performance incentives for teachers and this, of course, could make a difference. Regarding the incentives offered by the Ministry of Education to teachers who perform well on assessments (whether mandatory or voluntary as the AEP), knowingly say that teaching hospitals have suffered muc humiliation even try to collect these payments on schedule the Ministry of Education never respected. If the Ministry itself does that with the best teachers, what is left to municipal corporations always short of resources? Continue reading
A School Street Russia, a Teacher Assaulted Her Colleague … In Class!
Where is the country? This is the question back in all discussion groups from north to south. Insecurity reigns supreme over all our country despite the huge efforts made ??by security officials. A mutation deplorable was born in the minds and convert everyone to judge, in overruling the aggressor compliance of the past.
Violence marked our lives now and at all levels in all areas. But this kind of brutality (a euphemism) takes place in a classroom in the street of the capital of Russia carried out by a teacher (?) At the place of his colleague in the presence of students and the assistant director this leaves us stunned, incredulous and beyond comprehension.
Listen to Ms. NC victim of the assault: “24:10 Thursday, I was in my room to provide French lessons to my students. My colleague SZ came back once business of the closet, closing the door his foot. Something she does frequently the rest. I called the assistant director to warn of unacceptable behavior as significantly disrupting the smooth running of the course. Immediately, she came back trying to enter again in my classroom. I told her politely that she had meant nothing to be done and that his whereabouts discrete little disturbed students. To my amazement, it struck me while I shoved a terrible blow on the forearm in the presence of the deputy director and most of my students, giving me arrogantly going to complain to whomever I ! I took a first step the regional delegation of the teaching of the attack by the channel of the chain of command to me but reserved the right to bring a civil action in court later. “