Dimapur, September 3 (MExN): As the country observes Teachers’ Day, teachers in Dimapur are urging for introspection “whether we are doing justice to the profession we have chosen.” The All Nagaland School Teachers Association of Dimapur however referred only to “proxy teachers.”
“When the country celebrates teachers’ Day, paying rich tribute to the teachers, the teachers too need to retrospect as to whether we are doing justice to the profession we have chosen. Keeping proxy teacher citing various excuses is not an acceptable justification,” stated a note from the ANSTA Dimapur unit, appended by its president P Vashum.
“It is illegal, it is kind of impersonation and a crime. Who should be paid the tribute, the appointed teacher or the proxy teacher?” the unit wondered.
Teaching is not only ‘about entering classes and covering the syllabus,’ the note explained, but “how much the learners understand what is being taught.”
Stating that teachers are those “who taught others”, the ANSTA of Dimapur urged all to not let teachers “be taught by others” and “let us be a teacher in speech and in deed.”
“When the country celebrates teachers’ Day, paying rich tribute to the teachers, the teachers too need to retrospect as to whether we are doing justice to the profession we have chosen. Keeping proxy teacher citing various excuses is not an acceptable justification,” stated a note from the ANSTA Dimapur unit, appended by its president P Vashum.
“It is illegal, it is kind of impersonation and a crime. Who should be paid the tribute, the appointed teacher or the proxy teacher?” the unit wondered.
Teaching is not only ‘about entering classes and covering the syllabus,’ the note explained, but “how much the learners understand what is being taught.”
Stating that teachers are those “who taught others”, the ANSTA of Dimapur urged all to not let teachers “be taught by others” and “let us be a teacher in speech and in deed.”
