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Consolidate Your Vision to Navigate through Challenging Educational Landscape

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The medias, both social and mainstream, is both frenzy and abuzz with the news of a teacher being implicated by court for using corporal punishment as a method to punish underachievement in academic outcome and as possible means to boost future performance. Although corporal punishment has been legally banned in education/ school, the practice still find its spot for numerous reasons. In my analysis, teachers personal belief system on half truths of educational theories and system induced stress on teacher performance tops the reasons for the existence of corporal punishment in schools. AI generated image 1. The educational Trap of Omnipotence, cultural beliefs on adverse conditioning, and misinterpreted theories As our teachers long ago believed that corporal punishment can induce learning behaviors boosting academic achievement, do today's teachers believe the same? I have seen many do hold on to those believe. It is either because of ignorance or cultural tendency to disbelieve ...

Teacher Attraction VS Teacher Attrition

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Gentle tides of ocean attract more beachcombers to beachfront, but this one is Tsunami.  Annual Education Statistics 2018 reveled one of the highest teacher attrition rate of 4.02%, the highest being 5% in year 2010. By liberty of choices and likes, attrition is normal trend of human resource dynamism indicating living nature of an organization, however, by our standard ‘4.02% Teacher Attrition’ is of skyrocketing level which is cause of concern. Of 355 teacher who left the system, 263 resigned voluntarily which calculates to 2.98% of total teachers. This indicates that 263 teachers had been thinking of resigning from education system almost every day and in every session s/he taught. This may not sound logical conclusion but it is likely conclusion.  On average, from the available data of past ten years around 2.32% of teacher resigned voluntarily. Thus, it may not be wrong to predict that at least 2.32% of teachers will think (consciously/sub-consciously) of leaving t...