The education system product line is Graduates. Hence, students who
desire a career within this system must firstly, appreciate the responsibility
being placed on them. Secondly, the training must be more than the particular
subject matter and must include the humanity and continuous improvements
required to guide and motivate students. The Teacher must also recognize their
role in society, to always deliver a lesson to all who are ready to learn and
never disrespect the profession. A teacher is always a professional and must be
constantly seen as such, promoting discipline, not punishment, but a dedication
to time, knowledge and respect.
All teachers were first themselves, students of Language and Logic. Further
undergoing training and constant improvement in their particular subject matter,
before exposure to human development, learning techniques and classroom
management. Understanding age related human development, part of a psychiatry syllabus
finetuned to expose processes and methods, is key in such teacher training. Followed
on by learning techniques, practiced and proven, to guide and motivate case recipients,
first into a joyous state and then, to question the lesson. And hereafter, learning
to translate a well written lesson plan into a presentation to numerous
students within a classroom or group control, is the graduate teacher’s essential
training.
Teachers in direct contact with students, not administrators, should
benefit from the national percentage performance increase. Incentivizing such
teachers, qualified and hired, to design and deliver lesson plans, within the nationally
approved and authorized curriculum. Consistently producing graduates, promoted
to the next level or accredited within the career line, sustaining or growing
the statistically measured national skill and talent pool. The national
education performance system should, hence, be measured, at every stage, by the
level of graduates’ performance, at each class of learning from early childhood
to tertiary, vocational or academic, levels, and calculated to be shared among
every direct contact teacher.
Grouped by level and subject, subsets of the professional teaching
service, are designed, structured and measured to further incentivize
performance. For example, all teachers of 5-6-year-old children or of foreign languages,
can be grouped for comparisons and evaluations, which would further affect their
personal job appraisal report and their annual remuneration increases. Further comparing
these results across the entire group and ranking the best performers within
the particular grouping, will present an average benchmark for each group. Hence,
an annual award ceremony will recognize such achievements and broadcast such
success across the population, to build and sustain the teaching profession’s role
in society.
Therefore, rewarding all teachers across the nation each year, with the
national percentage performance increase as the nation’s skill and talent pool
increases. In addition, rewarding teaching group winners, the best performers
within the particular grouping, with an additional financial reward, each year for
being the best in the grouping. And, an individual teacher, always inline for
National Teacher of the year award, must also be rewarded with an additional
financial reward, mainly judged by teaching attendance, lesson preparation and students’
performance. These employment terms allow the best to be hired and retained, and
non-performers, based on statistics, to be quickly redeployed or fired.
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