TEACHER CERTIFICATION – Between Working on Wetlands and Working on Professionalism
Once upon a time at a Subject Teachers Consultative Meeting (MGMP) held at the district level, several teachers of subject X were present who, on average, had not been 'certified' while the speakers at the meeting were senior teachers and supervisors, almost all of whom held the title of 'certified teacher'. '. In short, after one of the presenters presented the MGMP material using Power Point (PPt), a participant approached the speaker during the break session. This participant had a conversation with the presenter about how to make an interesting PPt to be displayed during a presentation. He showed an example of a PPt design that he had to the presenter and suddenly the presenter said, “Wow, how can you make all those writings move (animate) on the slides? Can you teach me how to make it?” With a smile, this participant gave practical steps on how to design an attractive PPt. This story reminds me of how the quality and capability of a certified teacher is compare...