Sunday, January 2, 2011

A few words from the editor Hugh Bilton

Teaching – surely is a ‘Noble Profession’
To pass on knowledge to future generations, but a noble profession doesn’t come without its challenges or without its frustrations, whether your teaching in the USA, Australia or Armenia, Peru, or Poland, the constant search for a balance of real teaching time – the teacher student interaction and the time spent preparing, planning, juggling paperwork and documentation, whether at school level or government level. Of course there are always limitations of facilities or resources or the ongoing need to upgrade those facilities/resources in the ever changing educational environment. But thanks to TEA and other teacher enhancement programs throughout the world step are being taken to improve the teachers lot.
Education systems as you will see in this book vary from country to country, from individual schools within those countries, as do facilities or resources within those individual schools but once again it is as an individual, as a teacher that the most important development can occur. So when you’re down always remember teaching is a ‘Noble Profession.
                                                                                                                                Hugh Bilton, Australia

During Christmas Break, Hugh Bilton and Anna spent a valuable time on editing and organising the articles. In deed, it was incredible to read all TEA articles from different parts of the world:

Dr Terry Janicki, Prof Del Harnish and Shannon Lovett, Waldemar Sedkowski, Oksana Petrova, Nana Tatiashvili, Modou Mbaye, Mutahar Hussain, Saliou Sarr, Irina Barilenko, Rita Banerjee, Efrian Davila Salazar, Varduhi Grigoryan, Erick Fuentes... . 

Now, they will be retyped and sent to the authors and Dr Joe McNulty to prepare final version for publishing. Please, do not forget include the pictures of you, your schools/students (as the attachement) and references (in the article).

Happy New Year 2011.