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Teachers need to be taken seriously in 2013
Dear Editor,
I would like to extend on behalf of the executives of the Upper Demerara Branch of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, a happy and productive 2013 to all teachers.
Let us in this new year continue our efforts in making education fun and relevant. Let us aspire to make the teaching learning experience, one that is not monotonous but exciting, and our pupils/students become more aware as to why we do what we do.
Let us strive to extend our efforts in which we teach our children to teach themselves when they are out of the school’s learning environment.
In this new year let us always be cognizant and aware of the ever-present fact that each student is unique and their individuality differs in many respects.
Therefore our methods, strategies and approaches in delivering our content must be broad-based to cater for those differences.
As educators let us be reminded that it is of vital importance that we keep up to date with what is new, not only in our field of study but the changing world.
Let us take up the challenge to re-inspire ourselves as well to learn new things on a regular basis and have fun in the process.
Let us be passionate about what we teach and continue to provide challenges for the nation’s children.
Let us continue relentlessly in encouraging creativity in our students and challenge them to think outside the box for new possibilities and solutions that would contribute to a better society, a better Guyana and world for all of us.
I pen these words with the hope that this new year will be one in which the teachers and this noble profession will be given the seriousness that has been denied for far too long from its pay master.
The seriousness in realizing and acting on that realization that teachers need to be given better salaries, more resources, recognition and most importantly better representation from its ‘union’.
The seriousness in realizing that teachers not just teach academic lessons to pupils/students, but also help and guide them in every sphere of their life, by giving the right tools and advice. They are nation-builders.
Jermaine Figueira
Chairman
Upper Demerara Branch G.T.U
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