QUESTION
Enlist the incentives that may motivate the teachers for in-service
training.
Course: Teacher Education in PakistanCourse code 8626
Level: B.Ed (1.5 Years)
Solved Assignment
Answer:
This week, Education World's
"Principal Files" team chats about what they do to keep good teachers
motivated. What special things do they do to inspire teachers to keep learning
and improving their skills? What do they do to keep up staff morale and make
their schools fun places to work? Our principal team shares their best ideas
for encouraging teachers to keep on plugging.
Given the state of school
budgets, it is extremely difficult for most principals to do substantial things
to motivate and inspire teachers. But sometimes little things can make an even
bigger difference! That's why Education World recently asked our Principal
Files principals to share with us some of their best ideas for keeping teachers
motivated. As usual, our principals responded with dozens of practical ideas.
This month's P-Files question
reminded principal Les Potter about Robert Greenleaf, author of Servant
Leadership. Greenleaf's idea is that "administrators need to serve the
worker, explained Potter. "At our school, we try to do that. We work hard
at making things less difficult and complicated. We try to cut down the amount
of paperwork our faculty must do, limit the number of staff meetings,
streamline procedures..."
Administrators at Potter's school
try to show teachers every day that they care in many ways. "We have an
open-door policy, they see us picking up trash and cleaning cafeteria tables,
we arrive on campus before they do and we are here when they leave, and we do
not have designated parking or other perks sometimes associated with
management," Potter said.
"Administrators always have
to put aside their own issues and do what is best for students and staff in a
caring and sensitive way. We try not to say no to teachers, and we always treat
them as adults." Principal Tony Pallija agrees. He and the rest of his
administrative team try to do lots of special things for the entire staff --
from special little gifts to Cookie Day. "We try to pretend we are at IBM
-- we treat everyone as a professional and we celebrate whenever we can," said
Pallija. "The material things are nice, but I have a motto that I try to
live by each day:
My job as principal is to make
the teacher's job easier, better, so they can teach and students can
learn." "Developing a positive school climate is critical to an
effective school," added Les Potter. "Morale is a very tentative
issue. You can do 99 things right and make one mistake that will shoot morale
forever."
RECOGNIZING THOSE WHO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND!
All teachers yearn for
reassurance that they are doing a good job. Most principals recognize teachers'
efforts by offering positive feedback -- both publicly and privately. Weekly
memos or e-mails, and regular staff meetings, are the perfect forums for
recognizing special contributions that teachers or other staff members make. spotlighting
efforts teachers make to develop projects that involve students across grade levels
or with other schools. Castle hopes those special recognitions encourage others
to consider projects that extend learning outside the walls of individual
classrooms.
"With all teachers have to
do, motivation is the key to keeping them focused and feeling worthy,"
principal Larry Davis told Education World. Davis reports that at each month's
staff meeting at his school two teachers are awarded the "Golden
Apple" for their above-and-beyond efforts. The neat thing about the
Golden Apple is that the teachers select its recipients! Each of the winners of
this month's Golden Apples is responsible for passing on the award to another
worthy teacher at next month's meeting.
Many principals try to leave a
little extra money in the budget to recognize outstanding efforts with small
personal gifts such as prepaid phone cards or store gift certificates. Recently,
one principal gave a phone card to a teacher who stepped in without being asked
(because the principal was out of the building) and took over an after-school
program for a teacher who was stuck in a dentist's chair while having a tooth pulled.
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