GHAMMISH STAFF ON INSET (28-4-2016)

The preparation of teachers for their jobs does not end with their pre-service education at College or University. It is supposed to be a career long affair. Almost everybody within the teaching profession and beyond it accepts that there is the need for In-Service Education and Training (INSET).Inset is closely associated with the idea of continuing education or life-long education. These concepts underscore the need for all professional people to strive to acquire, or continuous basis, new ideas, skills and attitudes to enhance their competencies and productivity and to effectively cope with inevitable changes that occur in the world of work. Such continuous training and education is considered to be very vital if workers are to stay committed to their vocational ideas. In service education and training may be likened to the need to maintain a vehicle after it has been used frequently overtime. Just as a regularly used and unrepaired vehicle, a teacher who does not participate in inset long after graduating from college or university may become stale and perform at a sub-optimal capacity.
As ideas and methods change and ways of doing things change, it becomes necessary for teachers and other professionals staff to be reactivated and sensitised to the changes taking place so that they will be in the position to give of their best.
It is for these reasons and others that GHAMMISH organised INSET for the staff. Some topics treated were:
1. Preparation before teaching( Syllabus, Scheme of work and lesson plan preparation).
2. What to do/have during lesson delivery.
3. Assessment
It was a very good program and we hope that it becomes part of the school's curriculum to bring about innovations and paradigm shift in teaching and learning.
  By Emmanuel A Abanti

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