Accountability of Teacher

Accountability of the teacher is a measure of the teacher’s dedication to his job.

Accountability means holding everyone with responsibilities to high standards of performance.

In school education system, students, parents and teachers are responsible to one another.The student is accountable for his achievement to the teacher; the teacher is accountable to the headmaster for his performance and the headmaster to the management for their overall administration. This is a cycle of accountability.

But accountability of teacher plays an important role in shaping the students’ personality.The teacher has the direct impact on a child’s personality in the classroom. We have a responsibility of overall development of every child.

The teacher expects the headmaster to create a safe, welcoming and supportive school culture with a great vision for learning and growth. The teacher wants the headmaster to promote excellence by recognizing top teachers, support to struggling teachers to improve, and replacing those who aren’t showing improvement.

It is expected that the teacher should help every student to learn.The teacher should be a role model for learning — learn new ways to engage students, master their subject matter, seek advice and accept critical feedback, and get better at their performance every year.

At the same, it is also expected that parents should keen about their child’s education — make learning a priority at home, encourage their child, and understand how they can make things better in their children’s classrooms and schools.

There should be fair, balanced and regular teacher evaluations that allow the headmaster & parents to trust that the child has a teacher who is passionate about his or her profession, knows how to engage students with creative lessons, and connects with students as individual learners.

Evaluation Methods for Accountability of Teacher:

1. Observation:

      The headmaster observes the teacher in two ways: Formal (Open) & Informal (Silent) observations.  Formal observation is done in the form of supervising the teaching of the teacher in the classroom and assesses his performance.  Informal observation is done without informing the teacher, the principal observes the teacher’s behaviour and performance in the classroom, staffroom, library and school campus.

2. Self-appraisal:

Every teacher has to maintain a personal observation book in which his teaching subjects, co-curricular activities, development of teaching and other remarkable activities of all round development of students are included.

Teacher is accountable for:

1. Adequate academic preparation

2. Continuous professional growth

3. Enhancement of the professional knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for competent classroom practice.

4. Knowledge of and concern for his pupils.

5. Communication and relations with students, staff and parent.

6. Active participation in curricular and co-curricular activities.

7. Ethical conduct

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