Criteria for selecting teachers

In addition to general criteria listed in Criteria for selecting literacy personnel, there are specific criteria that may be considered for selecting literacy teachers. The list is intended to provide ideas, rather than be exhaustive. All criteria should reflect local needs, resources, cultures, and decisions.

Here are some criteria for teachers. Select teachers who meet the following:

• Take personal responsibility for continuing to learn
• Are creative and flexible
• Are responsive and willing to discuss issues with learners and other literacy program personnel
• Demonstrate aptitudes to teach and explain well
• Demonstrate interest in and willingness to work with students
• Demonstrate sensitivity to learners
• Have completed an approved or accepted teacher training course

• Responsibilities of teachers
• Kinds of literacy personnel

See the following online books for more information:

• Planning for literacy in Papua New Guinea

  • What qualifications should people have?
  • Teachers' responsibilities and qualifications in North Solomons Province

• Ben-Barka, and others 1989

• Fact module: Criteria for selecting teachers
• In overview module: Criteria for selecting literacy personnel
• In overview module: Literacy personnel, by Stephen L. Walter
• In modular book: Plan a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Barbara K. Trudell (contributor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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