We all have learners from different backgrounds and cultures.Different abilities and learning styles.It is our duty as teachers to teach these learners authentically. To do this,we need to go beyond teaching. There are several actions we need to deploy in order to drive teaching to authentic level.
As an educator, I 've come to realise that teaching is beyond active teaching and learning skills. It is driven by hope, faith and hardwork.
Hope is that positive expectations we have.That level that tells us that our learners are capable of achieving excellence even if we can't see nor feel it at present .
There is need to keep hope alive. Believe that your learners are capable of becoming and achieving something great.
With hope,we are energised to keep working on our learners' progress. There is nothing as dangerous as hopelessness. It is a killer.Hopelessness leads to condemnation of learners. It gives us that ability to tag our learners wrongly.Hopelessness prevents a teacher from seeing the brighter tomorrow in learners .It makes a teacher to be judgemental and myopic to the light that our learners carry.
According to Desmond Tutu
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Hardwork is crucial in teaching and learning, there are many things to do.So many nitigrities to handle.
With Hardwork hope and faith are kept alive.So a teacher who is not hardworking should better rethink his or her actions.Hardwork enables us to deploy all the active teaching and learning skills.Hard work helps us to give feedback and assess the works of our learners. The list is endless..........
Learners' academic excellence cannot happen accidentally, It comes with hardwork .Teachers have to play their role.
Like PELE said
We cannot afford to do the work anyhow because we are raising future leaders.We need to be deliberate and intentional about hardwork because it is very essential.
Finally,keep hope and faith alive.Do not kill them.
Watchout for our next episode next week.Bye
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