Challenges and responsibilities of senior teachers

Being a teacher itself is a challenging career, and seniority in the profession has challenges even more. A senior teacher is always a prestigious post to be in an institution. Seniority earns respect and rewards more than the freshers, provided, they have more responsibilities than others. All teaching staffs with experience can get the senior post only if they possess true qualities as well as the talent and not every experienced teaching faculty is promoted as senior. Initially teaching individuals take a common career of teaching almost all basic subjects and when their service time climbs, they wish to expertise in a specific subject and thus senior teaching faculties are assigned to teach a particular course. Senior teachers also have the chance of becoming head of the department or institution with certain qualities to ensure the responsibilities. The responsibilities and challenges of senior teachers will be:


A senior teacher should be proficient in managing a classroom.
Instant implementation is a key responsibility of senior teachers when it comes to teaching strategies.
They should show quick and steady improvement of the class with their complete skill.
Senior teachers should be initiators and not followers.
They have to be a mentor for primary level teachers.
Raising the standard of teaching is in the hands of senior teaching faculties.
The development of an institution depends on the performance of a senior teacher, and it is their greatest responsibility to execute well.
They need to schedule themselves in completing a syllabus on time, which requires the skill of planning.
Department problems have to be sought out as quickly as possible and should try to solve by themselves without involving the administration which shows the character of seniority.
Developing new learning stuffs for students also comprises their duty.
Smoothly managing a group of teachers in the department is one of the tough tasks of senior teacher which they have to do it certainly.

Significant responsibilities of Pre-school teachers

Preschool is an institution for children under 5 to teach basics of education. Purpose of preschools is to develop interest in children for learning things at early age. Working parents mostly prefer sending their child to preschools to improve their IQ. Preschools are not just for basic education but it also functions a crèche where children are provided care in the absence of the parents. Preschools are thus referred as play schools. A Pre-school teacher is the one, who undertakes those functions of the institution with significant responsibilities, which include:

• The foremost responsibility of a pre-school teacher is to promote intelligence, physical activity and the social well-being of the children.
• Supervision of children behaviors and altering the odd mannerisms is the second most important responsibility that parents expect from a pre-school teacher.
• Practically teaching and developing simple teaching models for children under 5
• Developing vocabulary and pronunciation of basic languages in children
• Maintaining a parent-teacher relationship for updating the progress of their kids
• Make the children strong in basic education in order to promote them to next level of primary
• Importance of diet and food habits has to be taught.
• Teachers should teach the social welfares and fundamental lifestyles.
• Identifying the skills and nurturing right from the initial stage
• Handling children from different religious as well as cultural backgrounds
• Exposing kids to different extra-curricular activities like dance, music, drawing, etc.
• Planning educational trips
• Ensuring safety of children
• Other miscellaneous duties like noshing food, dressing up, making to sleep and cleaning untidy things made by the kids also should be executed by pre-school teachers.