Blogging in the Blogosphere

The experience that I have had reading and commenting and also doing my personal posts in the blogosphere has really been an interesting and enjoyable one. To begin with, I was amazed at the posts of my colleagues; and I don't mean the ones that I have commented on alone. Infact I read many on which I did not comment but nonetheless I was truly enriched by them.Teachers and educators are really a talented bunch of people: they are improvisors, resourceful, compassionate, helpful and can inspire. I was inspired by all those posts and I think that our instructors will have a blessed and enriched experience reading all of our posts. Don't you think so colleagues. I have located a site where it speaks about all the qualities that are inherent in you.

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/41772

Qualities of successful leading teachers

Successful leading teachers demonstrate the following qualities:

• empathy and self-awareness: a capacity to read other people's concerns and feelings with a knowledge of one's own feelings, strengths and weaknesses
• flexibility and creativity: a capacity to see where opportunities lie
• trust, openness and honesty: a capacity to enable confidence to grow and to tell things as they see them
• optimism, patience and consistency: a capacity to be hopeful even in adversity, to stick with a difficulty through to a successful outcome and to remain constant in the provision of advice and encouragement

God bless your efforts, your family and your charges.

Hope , hope, hope for the future

I was thinking about the next course that we have to do in the upcoming semester on leadership in reading. I was also of the opinion how timely and needed this course would be in light of the need for help like this for many teachers. Many of the blog posts I have read , my colleagues have lamented about having floundered in the deep for years not knowing how to give their students the kind of help that they needed. Even at present the Ministry has not renewed the contract of several reading teachers who were doing remedial work with our secondary school students. So for two terms now our students have been without the much needed intervention that they are in dire need of. I look forward to doing whatever is needed of this course to help teachers in my school.
However I pause to wonder again if after we've finished this programme, if we would be treated with the same scant courtesy that remedial teachers were treated. This in light of original plans that the MOE has for us. Remember that other scholarships that were offered in the past, the teachers received two days to attend classes and to do assignments and studies. I have not even been granted a halfday off by my principal. Every single half or whole day we take I'm sure that we have applied for. I shudder to think that somewhere along the line, after we have completed the Med, we'll be parked up in school having to balance our normal teaching time, normal duties and a reading portfolio that our principals and the Ministry would like us to execute all in a days work. Tell mih that yuh don't know how de ministry does operate nah!