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Students and civil society pay tribute to teachers
« on: October 06, 2013, 01:42:46 PM »
Students and civil society pay tribute to teachers
Islamabad : 06 october : Teachers are deemed as nation-builders and are glorified as spiritual parents. This profession has a status of not only being the fountainhead of all human traits but is also encompassing the whole life of man. Nations are laurelled with sublimity due to veneration of their teachers.
UNESCO representative Dr Roshan, Ghazali Education Trust (GET) ED Syed Amir Mehmood and social activist Fozia Kasuri said this while addressing a walk in connection with the World Teachers’ Day.
Thousands of students and teachers from various institutions, civil society members and a large number of people from different walks of life participated in the walk. The participants of the walk, which started from China Chowk and ended at D Chowk, were holding placards and banners inscribed with slogans for teachers’ veneration. They urged the government to evoke the role and significance of teachers by furnishing them with the same privileges as awarded to the aristocracy and bureaucracy.

Dr Roshan, Syed Amir Mehmood and others said teachers were the mirrors of educational institutions and lack of resources and economic instability were the problems being faced by the teachers of Pakistan. It is an obligatory duty of the government to provide them with a better service structure.

The participants of the walk said to safeguard of teachers of the country, the government should provide them with increments and promotion structure and set up a commission to chalk out a concerted policy. They said teachers should be inducted on a permanent basis and professional training courses for them should be conducted at a large scale.

Meanwhile, the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) Department of Education arranged a walk and a seminar at its campus to evoke the significance of teachers.

A number of students and staff participated in the event to mark the day.

The participants of the walk were carrying banners and placards highlighting the status of teachers as nation-builders and demands from the government and the society to give due respect to teachers.

They said the nations, which did not give due respect to their teachers, could not make progress.

Later, a seminar was conducted by the department where speakers paid tribute to teachers and observed no nation could excel if it negated teachers.

The speakers said teachers played a vital role in imparting quality education and guaranteed a bright future for the youth. Department of Education Chairwoman Dr Samina Malik and faculty members were present on the occasion. The students delivered speeches on the importance of the day and presented different skits and poems to pay tribute to their teachers. They also gave greeting cards and flowers to their teachers.

Dr Malik congratulated the students and faculty members for holding a successful seminar and walk to mark the day. She urged the students to cooperate with their teachers and help them in nation-building. agencies
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Call for Teachers’ theme urges educationists to be dutiful



Lahore : 06 october : Seminars and other events were orgainsed in city schools and colleges on Saturday to mark the World Teachers Day, as students sent greetings, thanksgiving SMS and emails to their teachers throughout the day.

UNESCO World Teachers’ Day 2013 slogan was “A Call for Teachers” with the aim to focus on quality teachers for global citizenship and cultural diversity during the whole year.

This call urges Pakistani teachers to be dutiful and dedicated.

In Pakistan, the day calls for teachers to think as to why we could not become a respectable nation of the world even after a lapse of 66 years.

Why the nation is unable to counter internal and external threats? Why are students misused by criminals for their vested interests? Why is hate increasing with every passing day in the country?

Teachers are very important because they not only deal with learning outcome but also with the character building. Unfortunately, character building elements and training elements of students is missing in our system of teaching.

With the passage of time teaching methodologies are fast changing in the world. Lecture format, recitation and memorisation are still the most common one, however, classroom presentations, assignments, quizzes, collaborations, learning by teaching are becoming popular methods. Every discipline requires particular teaching method.

Getting high level involvement of students in the class work and ensuring maximum knowledge dissemination has become a challenge for teachers of the universities.

In the semester system the main tool of students’ evaluation is the teacher. Therefore, this system has further increased the responsibility of a teacher. A teacher now also acts as a guide, a judge and also an inspiration for students.

Bad irregular, unprepared and unfocussed teachers have affected our society. They are responsible for decline in the moral values, decline in learning outcome, increase in academy tuition culture and distance between a student and teacher.

This is a trickle down effect. Fake degree holders are becoming legislators. They reach parliament and participate in lawmaking for the nation. Such people must be dealt with iron hand.

Following the central message and theme slogan of ‘A Call for Teachers’ our teachers must rethink their role in society and act accordingly. Politics of student unions and teachers association have spoiled the environment of most public sector educational institutions of the country. Now terrorists are being found in universities. The government must take practical steps to make universities apolitical.

A national policy is needed with special focus on promotion of nationalism among our children and our youth besides nation building and inculcation of moral values in society.

Protest: The Punjab Teachers Union held a protest demonstration against formation of district education authority to “minimise teachers’ role in educational administration”.

The demonstration was arranged outside the Punjab Assembly. Protesting teachers, including female teachers, were holding placards and banners inscribed with various slogans in favour of their demands. They demanded abolition of the district education authority, saying that it consists of union council level politicians who lack vision of educational administration.

Punjab Teachers Union President Sajjad Akbar Kazmi and Secretary Rana Liquat Ali led the demonstration.Daily Times.
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