Ensuring Teacher Accountability in Education
Accountability of teachers is crucial for quality education and involves responsibility towards students, parents, school authorities, the community, and government supervision. Teachers must exhibit love, tolerance, progress, and empowerment towards students, trust and respect towards management, adherence to educational regulations, and engagement with parents and the community. Assessing teacher accountability involves ensuring student learning levels, limiting tenure at one place, discouraging unethical practices, promoting professionalism, and emphasizing the importance of teaching.
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Teacher accountability? How to assess accountability among teachers? Accountability of teachers is a very significant aspect in teacher education. It is very essential for quality assurance in education. The concept is more relevant to profession like teaching. Accountability is defined as a mechanism of holding one responsible for his action. Good, Biddle and Murphy definedAccountability as follows- Making them responsible for people is accountability It is not a unilateral concept. In the educational system the principal, teachers, non-teaching staff and the community is accountable for the products of education. Teachers being Educational Engineers or human engineers are accountable for the progress of children they teach. The teachers are accountable to i)Students ii) Parents I iii) School authorities I iv) Community v) Government supervision
a) Criteria for accountability to students- i) Love and affection for children. ii) Tolerance towards the mistakes, mischief. iii) Towards their progress and development. iv) Towards their human empowerment.
b) Criteria for accountability towards management- i) Accountable to the management. ii) Develop mutual trust and respect. c) Criteria for accountability towards Education Department- i) Follow rules and regulations with meticulous case. ii) Obedience and strict observance of Educational Acts, programmes and policy. iii) Participation in departmental programmes whole heartedly.
d) Criteria of accountability towards parents/community- i) Children of the poor and deprived sections need extra ordinary care and love. ii) Encouragement to make them educated. iii) Enrolment of children into formal schools. iv) Community mobilization for development of school. v) Develops a sense of belongingness with the community.
Waysto assess accountability among teachers- NPE 1986 and Programme of Action 1992 stressed the need of assessing the accountability of teachers with its suggestions- Students should attain minimum levels of learning at the primary and upper primary level. No teacher should work for more than five years at one place and should stay in the village or work place. Teachers adopting cheap methods of getting results in the examination should be punished Teachers should avoid rude behaviour, negligence of duty. Bad habits, using abusive language should be avoided. Teachers should write lesson plans, complete syllabus as per annual plan. Many teachers of today taking teaching profession as a last resort. This outlook has to be changed.
Thank You Presented- Gaya Ram Basumatary Department of Education Salbari College, Salbari.
