2. The meaning of a quality education is one that is pedagogically and
developmentally sound and educates the student in becoming an active and
productive members of society.
3. OBJECTIVE
Ensure that all students at all levels of school education are taught by
passionate, motivated , highly qualified, professionally trained, and well
equipped teachers.
4. Today, however, this status of the teacher has undoubtedly and unfortunately
dropped. The quality of training, recruitment, deployment, service
conditions, and empowerment of teachers is not where it should be, and
consequently the quality and motivation of teachers does not reach the
standards where it could be.
5. WHAT MAKES FOR OUTSTANDING
TEACHERS AND TEACHING?
Teachers must be passionate, motivated, and well qualified, and well trained in
content, pedagogy and practice
It is important that teachers relate to the students whom they teach, and are
invested in the communities in which they serve
To ensure that they perform well, teachers must be valued, supported, respected-
happy teachers and students make for excellent teaching and learning ! In
particular, the everyday working environment of teachers and students must be
safe, comfortable, and inviting.
Teachers, and their schools, school complexes, and classrooms, must be well
supplied with the learning resources that they need for effective teaching
Teachers should not be overburdened, especially with non teaching activities, or
with the teaching of subjects outside of their expertise
Teachers must have the autonomy to innovate and teach in the style that best
suits them and their students
6. What are the primary issues affecting
teachers and teacher education today?
There are few innovative that explicitly aim to recruit the best performing
students, or those that have the most talent for teaching, into the teaching
profession
Teacher education is severally lacking and indeed in a crises at the current
time
There are severe short comings and suboptimal practices in the deployment
of teachers
Many schools lack sufficient infrastructure, resources, and supplies
Teachers are often asked to spend large portions of their time on nonteaching
activities
7. Quality professional development opportunities are not sufficiently available
Salary, promotion, currier management, and leadership positions in the school
system and beyond tend not to have any formal merit-based structures
8. What can be done to help restore the high
quality teachers
Recruitment and deployment; To ensure that truly excellent students enter
the teaching profession. Large number of merit-based scholarship will be
instituted across the country for studies at outstanding four year integrated
bachelor of education programmes
The harmful practice of excessive teacher transfers will be halted with
immediate effect
To ensure that the best enter the teaching profession(TETs)will be
strengthened
For subject teachers suitable NTA test scores in the corresponding subjects
will also be taken into account for recruitment
A classroom demonstration or interview will become an integral part of
teacher hiring
9. Teacher will not be allowed be any longer to conduct government work that is
not directly related to teaching
The role expectations of principals and teachers will explicity include
developing a caring and inclusive culture at their schools, for more effective
learning for all, and for the benefit of all in their communities
Teacher will be given more autonomy in choosing finer aspects of curriculum
and pedagogy
10. EFFECTIVE TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND
DEPLOYMENT
Merit based scholarship to encourage outstanding students to enter the
teaching profession
The teacher recruitment process
Achieving desired pupil teacher ratios
Induction of freshly trained teachers in to schools
