Importance of Social Professional Records in the Teaching and Learning of Religious and Moral Education.

Professional records are important to the primary school teacher,since it is the basis of promoting good teaching and learning conducive environment. Lets have a close look at the social record.
Social background for each individual child is important provided it is accurately recorded and kept in the teacher's file and the school's archives. Why?
Social record is the professional document which should have correct information of the child's religion ,family background , health history and moral development . How this has implications in child's learning activities? There are so many things the teacher can obliged to include in the social record book according to the institutional authorities or the requirements of other regulatory bodies. But in this case we shall only look at the above mentioned categories.
Religion of the child is very important to be noted by the teacher.It gives the knowledge on the composition of the class in terms of their religious backgrounds. If pupils are coming from different religious beliefs ,the teacher has to strictly adopt multi-faith approach when it comes to the teaching of moral subjects and religious facts. Some pupils has the tendences of their siblings or parents at home who look down other people's way of worshipping as they regards their system of worshipping as the most perfect one. A teacher who identified these religious differences will be equipped to monitor his/her children against looking down others ' way of worshipping. The teacher can also use other children as a resource persons when having lessons of different religions to develop certain morals.Religious knowledge will also help to identify some pupils who might resist or withdrawn from certain activites such as playing drums or other traditional instruments.Religion is the most influential which model certain attitudes in human behaviours and has its own certain rules ,at times this rules has frictions with educational system and morals at school. A teacher who has knowledge of this influences will be in a position to guide children in their learning without getting into unacceptable conflicts.Children need to be guided into accepted norms and moral values of the society they are living.
The family background will help the teacher to have a clear view of the kind of child he/she is prepared to deal with in teaching and learning. For example the position of the child in the family may influence his/her behaviour. Researchers who has studied the influences of family positons has identified that the first borns has certain general characteristics of being always domineering in every situation of group activities. The middle borns are neutral people who are not worried of other people,but believe in individualism or unique way of exploring things. And the last borns are love percettors ,they want to be loved in every thing they do they need extra attention. However all this is also factored by sexes ,such has being a first born girl followed by boys is different from being first born boy followed by girls and other numerous cases like single child which may also be affected by economic status.The teacher should know whether the child is living with both parents or other guardians. There are so many cases of child abuses reported in our media . The teacher can be an agent change to reduce rape cases by discussing with children how they can avoid being victimised by their guardians. The parents' trade is also the source of inspiration to the children and so on.
A teacher who has the knowledge of his/her class ' economic status is in advantage of planning lessons in relation to what kind economic ideology the learners can get them interested .The topic 'Living Together' can be taught differently to the poor families and rich one. Teaching children from rich family is not the same as teaching those from poor. At the same time there are middle income families.The economic status of the learners can be the source of intrinsic motivation which the teacher can influence negatively or positively.
Health history help the teacher to have a knowledge of whether this learner has physical and educational challenges associated with the health background from birth.
Moral development of the child in learning is achieved if the teacher have records of all outistanding characteristics reflected through the child's behaviours. These records both negative and positive aspects of morality should be continually checked for any changes of these characteristics.
Implications of the social records to the teachers is to seek suitable attention,correct supervision ,avoid truancy necessited by child 's experiences. There many things a teacher can consider according to the social records of the child which we cannot write on this small space.