PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION OF TEACHERS

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION OF TEACHERS

A professional organization of teachers is a social body whose membership is resticted to teachers and upholds the furtherance of  professional practice of teachers as one of its major objectives.

ROLE OF TEACHERS ORGANIZATION

• To contribute to the national capacity to tackle a wide range of educational problems through professional strength and organizational might.
• To secure for their members, individually and collectively, their rightful status - social, economic and professional.
• To safeguard their professional interests and secure satisfactory conditions of work and service.
• To provide professional development opportunities to their members through refresher courses, seminar, symposium, publication, library service and research.
• To work for the improvement of education in response to the challenge of the ever changing socio-economic situation.
• To improve the teaching of subjects through the establishment of subject teachers' association.
• To establish a professional code of conduct for teachers to ensure that it is followed by members.
• Provide literature on academic matters of larger interest.
• Extend educational services to society in the form of giving leadership to various community educational activities.
• To operate as direct pressure groups in the formulation of public policy.