An educator at Torit Day Secondary School says teachers are in dire need of salary increment and motivation.
Head Teacher of Torit Day Secondary School, Valery Afara Ohiri, says teachers are abandoning their profession because of poor pay, Radio Emmanuel reported.
He notes that teachers have now resorted to other jobs looking for green pasture to fully support their families.
“Many of the teachers who are trying to leave their profession and go and work in the places which they are not profession even is unbecoming, there are individuals who have decided to go and work as gatekeepers provided that where ever they earn from make the good living, they have children to send to school, if their salary is raise in the extent that they put their children to school and keep their families well I think there is nothing bad. Good motivation means there will be in position of delivering effectively because for them to deliver effectively it means that they don’t have something behind that they are complaining of, they know that the family he live is okay the children have gone to school and he is or she is ready to deliver without any problem you go home know complain is there so every services will go smoothly as it is”, Afara explains.
The head teacher says transformation of the human being is through education to boost and improve the education system of South Sudan, the curriculum must be followed strictly.
“Transformation of the human being is through education and in order to perform better you have to look at the mistake where there are problems and this is where you transform because you correct by doing the best thing after you have find out that there is something which is bad, and to make the education far better here is to use the policy, we have to follow the curriculum and we also see in to it that the policy is made up right from the national Ministry have to be implemented”, he says.
A teacher at Torit East Primary School, Peter Owen Thomas, says to transform the education system in South Sudan, National Exams must be restricted to minimise malpractices.
“I think one of the way that we can transform education in South Sudan the way we are looking at it like for example the P8 exams where by the national level you find sometime they can leak the exams where by learners are the one to suffer which will bring challenge later to them, I think with that the centre there need to be control so that we produce quality learners and even quality education”, he notes.
Taban Samson, Deputy Head teacher of Torit East Primary School, reiterates that education can be improved through refresher training to teachers.
“For the need of the teacher to transform education, the teacher need to have a refresher course like those short training which can enable effective teaching because we know actually when a teacher is not prepared because one of the tools is when you know how to schemed your lesson plan that is when education in South Sudan can be transform. Also one of the thing is a teacher also need to know how to communicate with fellow teachers and including the pupils because we see there is teacher to teacher relationship and teacher to pupil relationship, once the teacher sometime having a lot of stress you find that the teacher actually cannot go on well”, he suggests.
This year marks the fourth year of International Day of Education celebration on January 24, 2022 under the theme: ‘Changing course, transforming education’.
United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the International Day of Education in 2018.