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

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