A teacher who have a long vision for his/her pupils is likely to acknowledge the high academic performance , children's learning in the classroom.
For pupils to improve in language they need to understand the rules of the language which are:
(1)Spellings ,the guide to avoid mispellings,
(2)Plural formation ,something to do with vowel drop consonants and add 'S'.
(3)Where do we use comma? When listing .
(4)Use of capital letters ,full stop and apostrophe.
(5)Besides using punctuation need to use the four language macro skills which are speaking ,listening ,reading and writing.
(6)Children need to do a lot of creative writing. All types of compositions should be taught and how to paragraph ,make a good introduction ,the body and a conclusion . The skill of letter writing is essential in this contemporary times children must learn to write e-mails both informal and formally.Revise on letter writing on areas like paragraphing skills as a necessity to skip a line .A paragraph is a set of sentences that convey a similar meaning using the words like however,moreover, inaddition etc.
Writing to forums and other articles online.
The use of provocative words must be discouraged as it is inappropriate when writing online and they must understand the basic language of using a computer and browsing the educational sites.
The teacher should also expose children on how to look for information on the internet and download the useful information and save it in their flash. Wide reading helps them too to get adequate information necessary for their Education. The recent research done in Britain reveals that a child who plays electronic games is skillful on spotting the focal point and be attentive when doing things or learning than those not access to these games .So playing games is not harmful but beneficial,a teacher who advises parents or guardians to buy good electronic games which are not destructive or moral abusive and allocate their children a reasonable time to play these games and do other things like studying exercising etc which are also essentials in life.
Short term plans are necessary especially for those pupils who are six months away to write their end of course Examinations. In Zimbabwe after a total of seven years in formal primary education the child is expected to write the seventh year Examinations which is the passport to be accepted in secondary education for the four years where he/she sits for 'o' level and then 'A' Level or college education in technical ,agricultural and teachers' colleges or vocational centres.
How then a primary school teacher's preparations set a short term base for these pupils to excell in these Examinations?
(a)Expose them to past examination papers, because it is their first time to sit for examination,they may be capable of answering them if they given access to the past papers and oriented on the techniques of answering these examinations.
(b)Equip pupils to respond to comprehension questions.
(c)Discourage them from making unnecessary noise and instill discipline in them.
(d)A good teacher is the one who has good working relationships with the colleagues and the community. So that at some point in time can invite them as resource persons to coach them for examination.
(e)Pupils exposed to different examinations set by different teacher from different grades ,clusters and districts levels and exchange them for making to identify the weaknesses found in pupils according to recommendations from different teachers.
Some challenges teacher may face include the following which you can suggest your own solutions:
(A)As teacher you may noticed poor composition writing . How are you going to help them to overcome this challenge?
(B)Suggest two ways of overcoming comprehension problems?
(C)Some schools has problems of having past examinations or textbooks .How would you address it?
(D)How can you ensure an efficient circulation of limited past examination papers?
(E)List grammatical structures that normally gives children problems in making use of correct grammar in an examination situation?
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