𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬’ Checklist as the Term Resumes
*1.* Avoid familiarity with parents. It has ruined many.
*2.* Avoid being too playful with students. If they see you as being too playful, they’ll never take you serious and it would cause you problems. You must have some level of firmness to be able to manage your classroom. It is a sign of incompetence if other teachers come to ask the students to stop making noise when you are in the class.
*3.* Mind your words when you address your students.
*4.* Carry yourself with pride. Dress well and smell nice. Make good hairs. This will give you an edge.
*5.* Even if you are poor, do not let your students think so, they will look down on you.
*6.* Never ask your students to lend you money, it is a step to downfall.
*7.* Do not join parents to speak bad of your school.
*8.* Do not gossip with your students.
*9.* Don’t give assignments you can’t mark.
*10.* Never eat your students food.
*11.* Prepare yourself before going for a class. It is a shameful thing for your students to keep correcting you in your own subject.
*12.* When a student asks you a question and you don’t remember its answer, quickly throw it back to the class and afterwards tell them how important it is that they should know it. Make them take it home as an assignment. This will give you the chance to make research.
*13.* Quit that act of stopping over at parents house to charge your gadgets. In most cases it exposes you to ridicule.
*14.* Be professional about your home lessons; teach and get out of there it is not your home. Don’t relax and watch television or even eat there, you are inviting disrespect.
*15.* Never let your students think you practise favouritism.
*16.* When any of your students is absent, call his or her parents to inquire, why?
Say: “Mommy Bukky, why was ‘my child’ absent in school today?” Referring to your student as your child is a professional way to earn respect from parents, not all those shameful familiarity attitude some of you put up.
*17.* Learn to be a time conscious person.
*18a.* Master different teaching methods. Master when to apply each techniques. For example, story telling helps you to win the attention of your students if they are tired.
*18b.* Build a strong personality, so that the children don’t only comport their selves only when you are with the cane.
*19.* As a male teacher, never entertain closeness with your female students. When they come to you about not understanding a thing, do not be tempted to teach them privately. Follow her to the class, and tell the others about her question and remember to let the other students try to provide explanation. If you are able to do this, you will be able to avoid being accused of paedophile activities.
*20.* Learn to say ‘thank you’ to your boss when he/she pays your salary. It is not stupidity, It is a Logic and critical thinking. This single act keeps you in his/her top lists.
*21.* Be a hardworking teacher. Carry out practicals, take your students out for field work and excursions. Do not exploit them.
*22.* Finally, try to be your boss and master who considers work ethics.