World Teachers’ Day 09
Considérons l’enseignant comme un vrai professionnel
L’enseignant est à la croisée des chemins. Il est impératif qu’on reconsidère son rôle, ô combien primordial, dans la société.
Les enseignants ne sont pas seulement des transmetteurs de savoir, ils ont également un rôle déterminant dans la construction de la société en devenir : faire en sorte que les élèves donnent du sens à ce qu’ils apprennent en les aidant à se construire. Les enseignants font en sorte d’aider à l’émergence d’une personne, d’un bon citoyen et d’un travailleur. Les enseignants sont des spécialistes de la compréhension, de la manière dont les élèves vivent leur rapport aux savoirs et simultanément construisent leur rapport au vivre ensemble. Ils sont les seuls professionnels ayant une grande maîtrise des savoirs et une bonne connaissance des processus d’apprentissage.
Ainsi il est fondamental et primordial de considérer l’enseignant comme un vrai professionnel. Il est le grand maître-médiateur dans son rapport aux savoirs, aux élèves et à la société en général. Il est donc grand temps qu’on les aide à être autonomes et simultanément à se responsabiliser en ayant à rendre des comptes. Et des comptes il en rend à chaque étape de son travail si délicat. Car il façonne la vie de l’apprenant quoi ! Aussi, l’existence des inspecteurs dans un rôle de contrôle et de gendarme tel qu’il est conçu aujourd’hui ne permet pas une responsabilisation. Il faudrait donner aux enseignants cette liberté de dire, de proposer, de montrer à travers moult initiatives qu’ils ‘mean business’. Ce qui renvoie alors que rien ne sert d’imposer dans le domaine de l’éducation. L’élément fondamental reste que l’enseignant soit en capacité de penser, de problématiser, de continuer à innover, à concevoir son métier comme une pratique vivante. D’où l’enjeu de former des enseignants en permanence pour les amener à être des chercheurs, des innovateurs.
Il va sans dire que certains, je dis bien certains, se sentent bousculés dans cette mouvance de métamorphose du métier d’enseignant. Ils vont “off rails”. D’où l’absolue nécessité d’une Charte d’Intégrité.
Ne faut-il pas souvent rappeler à l’enseignant qu’il est le concepteur du citoyen de demain, qu’il doit être le “role model”, qu’il doit inspirer. La Charte tombe à pic. Et c’est historique.
La GTU s’est employée à en définir et rappeler aux enseignants leur rôle crucial. Pour le reste, elle revendiquera et veillera a ce que la société reconnaisse comme il se doit le professionnalisme de l’enseignant.
Jugduth Seegum
Président GTU
Teachers Day et Integrity Charter for Educators
La journée mondiale de l’enseignant (WTD) a été célébrée exceptionnellement le 3 Octobre 2009 par la GTU au lieu du 5 Octobre suite à la requête du ministère de l’Education qui avait demandé à la GTU de revoir sa demande pour un congé scolaire. La GTU est un syndicat responsable et elle sait assumer sa responsabilité. Ainsi 350 enseignants étaient présents le samedi 3 Octobre pour célébrer comme il se doit le WTD, en la présence du ministre de la fonction publique, l’Hon B. Hookoom.
L’événement marquant de cette journée a été sans nul doute le lancement de la Charte d’intégrité, une initiative du ministère de l’Education, de l’ICAC et de la GTU. La Charte sera affichée dans toutes les écoles dès Janvier 2010.
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Long live GTU ! Nice Teachers’ Day ! Keep it up !
Problems of School Teachers Print, Read and Circulate
New methods of teaching imposed by politicians are good for traumatised pupils but cannot be used with pupils having high self esteem.
Theory of play /bridging the gap in pedagogy leads to chaotic situation in many classrooms
Group work in the classroom not adapted to individual evaluation of pupils at exams level. Group work also leads to copying and later gang formation.
Noise from pupils in the classroom on teacher’s mental health refer section 59, 60 Occupational Safety and Health Act 1982.
No psychological unit to help in teacher’s mental health
In some schools teachers must buy white board markers from their salary
No remuneration for Classroom Pedagogical Work done at home (correction of exercise books, preparation of teaching aids, daily lessons notes, research work, etc ).
No distance allowance for teachers who always work far from their home while some always works in schools around their houses
With the concept of performance management those teachers who works around their houses are deemed to be more performant than those who works far from their houses, what about those teachers who works with difficult hyperactive pupils
In some schools teachers are not allowed to use school computers to type continuous evaluation questionnaires and to do research work.
Indiscipline of pupils in the classroom (The problem No 1 of Education which many deny)
Verbal abuse, insults from pupils, parents, Assaults from pupils and parents on teachers.
Teachers are blamed for misbehaviour of pupils (some say bad classroom management)???
Teachers are blamed for bad exams result.
Teachers should be provided with Mobile Camera Phone to gather evidence of some pupil’s misbehaviour before confrontation with parents who never blame their kids.
Teachers are blamed as having bad classroom management after reporting indiscipline pupils.
Teachers can also be sued for damage by parents if they report indiscipline pupils at school without evidence (same for CPE exams Invigilation).
Absence of Legal Support for teachers from Ministry of Education in police case.
Refusal of vacation leave for teachers due to exigencies of service.
High Teacher / Pupil ratio and no assistant teacher like in other countries despite a similar pedagogy imposed by politicians.
Internal fight with colleagues to get upper primary classrooms to benefit private tuition.
Abuse from hierarchy on young teachers to help in cognate duties which are never recorded in the young teacher’s file.
Though remunerated Teachers must give private tuition cramming method for good exams result. Why not allow the same cramming method used in private tuition in formal school??
Music in schools will create discotheques addicts in the future .
Teachers are still using Corporal Punishment and Shouting (verbal abuse) for the intellectual benefit of pupils despite severe laws. Are they Fools??? They are jeopardising their career for kids.
The Ministry of Education wants teachers to work as professionals, So let us all teachers work like the over qualify professionals teachers of America, Europe, etc and so whatever be the RESULT on EXAMS and on society.
Teachers and Parent Teachers Association must Beg for sponsors in order to please the imposed activities of the new pedagogy.
Note in many countries despite their full time psychological help in school, their school are in a chaotic situation, may be politicians wants same here.
From Mr Christian Yow Sang and others
A primary school teacher since 1991 with experience in the Correctional Youth Centre boys prison.
Addr 105 Ligne Berthaud Vacoas Mauritius Island mob 230 7543073 230 7756330
E-Mail yowsang@servihoo.com , cyowsang@gmail.com
The new pedagogy wants your child to become Hyperactive and later you become dependant on psychologists
TYPE ‘’christian yow sang’’ and search on the Internet PRINT , READ and CIRCULATE
Pls send above in all Internet Links
Education is the only field where despite more money is put in yearly, there is a downfall in the result obtained and noone wants to see the solution which is the use of the stick on pupils and the use of old methods of teachings
Integrity Charter for Educators
To add:
1. Refrain from passing remarks on physical appearance( hair,colour,type of clothes if uniform not available,etc) of pupils.
2. Have respect of their religion,belief,culture,etc
3. Refrain from choosing pupils to sit in front of class according to teacher’s personal religious belief.
4. etc,etc, etc
Why Ministry do let let us teachers use our tuition pedagogy from 9 to 15 hr ??ministry is putting too much distraction on pupils to prepare them to a good consumerism society Ref La cigale et la Fourmi
wao mr Christian that was a veryy good satire… this is reallity shown with lots of humour…ha ha hats off to u…
lecturers of mie endaded in ace course xplain assgnt AFTER submission by teachers.
total confusion among diff groups concerning submission datei dont blame lecturers but where is the problem?……….ptr heh kel ironi
lecturers of mie engaged in ace course xplain assgnt AFTER submission by teachers.
total confusion among diff groups concerning submission datei dont blame lecturers but where is the problem?……….ptr heh kel ironi