Hi Steemians,
It is often said that a teacher cannot be paid commensurately for his service as he/she put in extract-effort, energy and abilities in almost every activity of his service either officially or unofficially. This explains with practical examples in the Cameroonian context and with North West Region in practical where pupils and students are found present and busy in learning institutions together with their out of official working hours either in the morning or afternoon and on days like Saturdays in a bid to effectively cover content, build expected skills and competences so as to attain the goal of job satisfaction with a clear and happy conscience. This therefore implies that: the curriculum/syllabuses and schemes certainly crowded to an extend that official time by job description cannot get the contain satisfactorily covered. This bring us back to the opening sentences of this text. This holds true to state employed teachers, private, lay private, the trained and untrained.
This practice in job in execution therefore places a teacher in his task to fully perform it as a vocation, servitude and philanthropy. By this habit inculcated in the life of a devoted teacher: his/her services will neither be events for schools and classroom inspections only nor personal achievement and concerns but shall have a large field of impact in the society thereby causing the attention of the society to see a teacher as a unifying and integrating factor for the development of the society. It is partly for this reason that I picked the voluntary service in Bamenda where I live now after receiving briefing from an agent which had much attention to protect children’s rights and safeguard them from dangers and situations of abuse during this period of the Anglophone Crisis in which so many children and families are displaced to strange / foreign communities.
Attached to is a photo i took in a sensitization campaign in Bamenda.
