BEST WAYS FOR TEACHERS TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS

BEST WAYS FOR TEACHERS TO ENJOY HOLIDAYS

Holidays are usually a period of rest and leisure for students. However, the teachers can as well plan out ways to make a judicious use of the period. The clues below may help teachers in exploring the benefits of the holidays.

(a) Are you a Christian or Muslim? Get books and tapes that can boost your prayer life, faith and relationship with God. If possible, fast and spend good time on mounts of prayers.  

(b) Female teachers can use part of the holidays to acquire some culinary skills:

(i)    She can learn about highly nutritious plants which can be used for vegetable delicacies that are very good for health. Examples of such plants are:

Wild Lettuce, Bitter Leaf, African Spinach, Lagos Spinach, Water Leaves, Eggplant Leaves, Malabar Spinach, Scent Leaf, Yoruban bologi, Efang Leaf, Fluted Pumpkin Leaf, False Cubeb Leaf, Bush Buck, Moringa leaf, Oha Leaf, Spring Onion, etc.

(ii)  Fruits are generally better for adults than excessive carbohydrate, protein, fat and oil, etc. She may also learn the making of unchemicalised  juice(s) from such fruits and items as:

Sunflower seeds, fresh tomatoes, mangoes, butternut                 squash, chilli powder, almonds, dried apricots, pine nuts, asparagus, green olives, garlic, salmon, mushroom, hazelnuts, dried oregano, mustard greens, broccoli, canola     oil, pumpkin seeds, paprika, avocados, oysters, watermelon          seeds, peanuts, cashews, etc

(c)  Teachers can pick up their lesson notes used over the term or session to see their H.O.Ds’ evaluation of their plans and develop a mode for improvement where necessary.

(d)      They can get busy with their biological children on their academic assessment. Where the children are week as appraised by their class teacher, they should look for a way of improvement.

(e) Teachers can spend quality time to brainstorm, search and discover alternative income sources on which they can invest in order to take care of their old age. Note: such investment must not affect the teacher’s official job dedication.

(f)           Evaluate your relationship with your boss, superior, colleagues and subordinates in the course of the term or session and chart ways of improving on  better part of the relationship and correcting the flaws therealso.

(g)        Were you too far from your parents over the ended term/session? Spend this time to explain, apologise and pacify them and bridge the gap.

(h)         Acquire computer skills as these may become indispensable if you must be promoted in your teaching career.

(i)             Learn  a new indoor game. Educative games like scrabble can make your holidays fun-filled. Play it with your partner and children.

(j)             Make new friend outside teaching and see what you can learn or benefit from their professions.

(k)         Visit unusual places like eateries, barbeach etc with your family.

(l)            Research into the history of your school (ie place of primary assignment).

(m)           Research into your family history.

(n)      Learn how to play a musical instrument. If not you, maybe your children.

(o)      Learn the making of a product e.g soap, insecticide, herbicide, paints, inverter, etc.