This articles gives insight on how educators are the creators of all professions.

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The mother of all professions
"Beyond The Classroom television for teachers understands that teaching is the mother of all professions. No debate about skills,
economics, values, crime, globalisation, Afro-centricity, sports, gender equality, HIV, AIDS and other dread diseases can be held
without including a look at what's happening in our schools." This is the viewpoint of Paulette Tshiredo, formal education editor at
SABC Education.
Schools are centres of knowledge and support, not just in academic terms. As families disintegrate, the profession of teacher has
expanded to include a variety of services above the role of providing children with information and assessing their grasp of that
information. Teachers are providing food security, trauma counselling, and social work and keep track of continual changes in
systems.
While policy makers impose new regulations and technology drives a widening gap between those who have and those who don't
have, teachers are feeding, clothing, and nurturing whole communities. They are providing a glimmer of hope to the hopeless.
These teachers need help; skills, training, funding, assistance and recognition. Beyond The Classroom supporting the profession
is just a start.
"Beyond The Classroom inspires teachers and school management to engage with the world of work, to ask for input from the
business sector, to continually explore new relationships with government, NGOs and business in order to provide the best quality
education for their children and for the disempowered communities they serve," explains Tshiredo.
Adds Producer Gillian Brollo, "Teachers need to be encouraged, supported and valued. In our new slot My Home Town, Beyond
The Classroom explores small town South Africa from the point of view of schools. In a revealing discovery we see that the majority
of our small towns are dying a slow death, the glue holding communities together are the schools. In these towns, teachers are
heroes."
Watch Beyond The Classroom on SABC1 Sundays at 12.30pm and Mondays at 2pm and take a hard look at teachers charged
with huge responsibilities that affect all of us in one way or another. Write to P O Box 2237 Saxonwold 2132, phone or fax +27
(0)11 447 0029 or email beyond@mailbox.co.za and say what you think.
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