Botswana Teaching Professionals Council (BOTEPCO) is working around the clock to register and license teachers, a development they say teachers eagerly await.
Dr Raphael Dingalo said that there is need to plan adequately to include all relevant parties and allow them to discuss, understand and internalize the mandate of the organization and the plans in place. He therefore noted that during the stakeholder engagement activities, most teachers implored them to speed up the process of registering and licensing teachers. They have already visited 10 regions and 20 sub regions in the country to lay their core mandate to the teachers. This regions include; Kgatleng, Kweneng, Southern, South East, North West, Chobe, Central, North East, Kgalagadi and Ghanzi.
Founding Director at BOTEPCO, Dr Dingalo said that, a lot of issues have emerged from these engagements and teachers also
view this process of licensing them as the direct route to ‘Professionalisation-Go live’ initiative that they are working on to developing the system and undertaking process mapping. “Teachers expressed the view that, by registering with BOTEPCO, the debate as to whether teaching is a profession or not, will seize to exist, and the debate will be closed for good,” he said. He further explained that they intend to professionalize teaching in the sense that, all teachers would have a license and they would also maintain a register of teachers. “BOTEPCO must guard against influence by some quarters to intimidate, victimize and or even dismiss teachers and
and the council ought to consider the financial standing of most of the teachers too in terms of registration and licensing fees,” he said.
On the other hand, they are also working on developing standards and codes of ethics to engage the teaching fraternity in the development of standards. They target three key areas including; professional values and attributes, professional knowledge and understanding and professional skills. Professional values and attributes focuses on constantly reflecting on what works and basically challenging their attitudes and taking feedback while working in close collaboration with their peers to support professional learning.
For the professional skills, Dr Dingalo said that teachers should plan and deliver effective teaching programmes that cater for the needs ofe every learner, and enable learners to share in the responsibility of their own learning. “The professional knowledge and understanding framework covers how teachers should maintain an update their knowledge of the subject through research, enabling teachers to have a thorough understanding of their role and responsibilities,” said Dr Dingalo.
BOTEPCO is also of the view that, stakeholder engagement from the outset helps build involvement and a sense of continuation to a new future. “There is need to plan adequately to include all relevant parties and allow them to discuss, understand and internalize the mandate of the organization and the plans in place,” Dr Raphael said.
Dr Raphael Dingalo said that there is need to plan adequately to include all relevant parties and allow them to discuss, understand and internalize the mandate of the organization and the plans in place. He therefore noted that during the stakeholder engagement activities, most teachers implored them to speed up the process of registering and licensing teachers. They have already visited 10 regions and 20 sub regions in the country to lay their core mandate to the teachers. This regions include; Kgatleng, Kweneng, Southern, South East, North West, Chobe, Central, North East, Kgalagadi and Ghanzi.
Founding Director at BOTEPCO, Dr Dingalo said that, a lot of issues have emerged from these engagements and teachers also
view this process of licensing them as the direct route to ‘Professionalisation-Go live’ initiative that they are working on to developing the system and undertaking process mapping. “Teachers expressed the view that, by registering with BOTEPCO, the debate as to whether teaching is a profession or not, will seize to exist, and the debate will be closed for good,” he said. He further explained that they intend to professionalize teaching in the sense that, all teachers would have a license and they would also maintain a register of teachers. “BOTEPCO must guard against influence by some quarters to intimidate, victimize and or even dismiss teachers and
and the council ought to consider the financial standing of most of the teachers too in terms of registration and licensing fees,” he said.
On the other hand, they are also working on developing standards and codes of ethics to engage the teaching fraternity in the development of standards. They target three key areas including; professional values and attributes, professional knowledge and understanding and professional skills. Professional values and attributes focuses on constantly reflecting on what works and basically challenging their attitudes and taking feedback while working in close collaboration with their peers to support professional learning.
For the professional skills, Dr Dingalo said that teachers should plan and deliver effective teaching programmes that cater for the needs ofe every learner, and enable learners to share in the responsibility of their own learning. “The professional knowledge and understanding framework covers how teachers should maintain an update their knowledge of the subject through research, enabling teachers to have a thorough understanding of their role and responsibilities,” said Dr Dingalo.
BOTEPCO is also of the view that, stakeholder engagement from the outset helps build involvement and a sense of continuation to a new future. “There is need to plan adequately to include all relevant parties and allow them to discuss, understand and internalize the mandate of the organization and the plans in place,” Dr Raphael said.
