The roles of teachers towards the development of
any nation can never be overemphasized. Teachers build up good ethical
principles and obedience in pupils and students, they help to shape and
re-shape the characters of children under them, motivates and inculcate skills/
knowledge and build up personalities in a country both psychologically, bodily,
expressively, publicly and very importantly spiritually following the primary
objectives, principles, norms, way of life, plans, strategies rules/regulations
guiding the country.
These result to well-organized
administration, successful contribution of the people in the administration;
decrease in illiteracy, ethical profligacy, fraud, transgression and
disarrangement.
Teachers’ roles of supporting the
public and her aims, ideas, norms, high-quality morals, attitude, guidelines,
ideologies and regulations cannot be easily attained.
For it to be attained, the teachers
must cautiously and cleverly instruct the students to observe the rules and
regulations of the country. Also to be effective and productive as teachers, it
is essential and pertinent that they follow the leading teaching codes and
rules for teaching career discussed below:
Intellectual,
cautious and sufficient groundwork for lessons. This means that they must know
very well the topic they will teach the students or the pupils and must be able
to present the course to the students/pupils in a simple and non-technical way
for easy comprehension.
They
must also lay down education goals that the students and pupils must meet
within a given length of time and with the intention of fulfilling and meeting
up with the objectives, values, traditions, ways of life, guidelines, ideology
and laws governing the country or the society.
Inspection
of the growth or development of the students and the pupils through effective
mentoring of the pupils and students and assisting them to learn successfully.
The teachers must also consider teaching the students in a group as well as
each person in isolation on the best approach to be taken to achieve the aims
and rules of the community and the nation at large.
It
is of significant importance that teachers’ live exemplary life by being good
promoters and good advocates of communal and governmental rules and regulations.
The students will learn more through teachers’ positive attitudes and behaviors
than just by mere words of theirs. Unfortunately most teachers are devious and
ill-mannered and would in turn transfer such evil lives and attitudes to the
pupils and students.
One of the principal negative
influences and setbacks to the advancement of the 3rd world countries,
Nigeria inclusive is mismanaged educational system. We don’t need any prophet
to deduce from the poor academic performance of students especially in external
exams that Nigeria educational system has been poorly managed and the standard
is degrading systematically on a constant basis.
This has resulted to, many prominent
men in the country studying outside the country forcing the less affluent who
cannot afford the cost of training abroad to “eat what is presented before
their table.” Sadly, most graduates of Nigerian Universities cannot compete
with graduates from other countries of the world and can be rightfully compared
to secondary school graduates from those countries.
What a woeful situation we are
heading to if the situation is not remedied! A fresh geometric data
published revealed that 72% of graduates from Nigeria universities cannot be
offered employment as they lack the skills and knowledge need for their areas
of employment.
Students in Nigeria now places higher
value on paper qualification than making sure that they actually gain the
knowledge and expertise that their respective courses suppose to give them.
This has resulted to students going
to any length to obtain paper qualifications. Just memorizing data, assumptions
and rules regarding any course of studies is inadequate but actually studying
and understanding the compositions of those courses, which are the core issue,
ought to be given priority attention.
The deprived standard of education within the
country today could be linked to either inadequate government or that the
academic instructive aims, rules, objectives, or the school syllabuses are
unsatisfactory and inadequate.
Actually, some of the books, systems and
techniques in use in Nigeria today are out of date materials and ideas imported
from other countries of the world. These must be looked into, re-considered and
adequate amendments made.
Again, the governments need to pay particular
attention to the importance/roles of teachers to the nation’s educational
standard. This being the case, the teachers must be given proper and adequate
remuneration for their work.
The government must also provide and update
School facilities for improved training and academic performance. When these
are catered for, corruption in the schools will highly minimize.
Good
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