By: Fateh Kassab
To be a teacher in a third
world country means that you are out of reach. You are in a planet unknown.
If you plan to be a teacher,
you have to know in advance that you are on your own. As soon as you graduate
from the university you are directly thrown into a classroom without any
training or help. After that, your principal or supervisor expects you to be a
super teacher and have the ability to achieve miracles with nothing to use or
no one to guide or help you.
Another shock that you are
going to experience is that you have no choice in your career. For example, you
might be assigned to teach grade six, but the next day you have to teach grade
9. In addition to that, the school lacks almost everything. You do not find cardboard and markers to make a teaching aid, for example. If you ask for advice
to improve ways of teaching, you will get nothing from your colleagues or may
be laughed at because you are “weird”.
Another obstacle you will for
sure encounter is the lack of real training. I have been a teacher for nearly
twenty two years. The first real training that I had was three years ago; and
guess what, it was not held by the ministry of education. It was done by an
independent academy. Another real training that I had was held at AMIDEAST in
2013.
If we put the things we
mentioned above together, the result will be unqualified teachers. This means
that students will be the victims of such a collapsed system of education. But
do we really know where this tragedy will lead the future of our countries to?
I claim that I know. I think the result will be more collapse in educational
system which will result in more dangerous consequences; a cultural collapse
and greater political, economic and social corruption.
28/09/2014
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