Letters | Sunday, 07 February 2010

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Equipping teachers with the right skills

If the education system has been loaded with too much unqualified staff, not because they are capable but because of the urgency to fill up vacancies when the ratio of teachers to students fell so low, surely teachers who are not yet in full possession of the tools to work in non-streamed classes will experience difficulties.
The ministry then will have to provide timely support. Catering for non-streamed classes needs a substantial amount of preparation related to the rationale of the teaching experience. Training in methodology is more important for classroom management than the mere cliché of the buzzword “discipline”. Discipline is the global result of communication and classroom relations.
These are the crucial issues which teachers will have to face. Does this mean that we should give it all up or that we need to examine our ways of doing things? Unfortunately teaching has never been truly treated as a profession. Now we are tightly pressed to bring our house to order.

Lina Caruana
Tarxien

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