ONE-ON-ONE ON IPCRF
Classroom teachers tend not to confirm the official start of vacation unless they have passed through the process of having all their accomplishments within the school year evaluated by the school head. It is a painstaking process that normally involves a compilation of mountainous reams of papers and all other pieces of evidence of work—and there is no single strand of exaggeration there.
Teachers are evaluated according the four different Key Learning Areas (KRA). These KRAs specifically indicate that specificity of what teachers need to work on in the entire school year. This is the heart of how teachers should have their job done and the extent on how they have met the standards.
Having the accomplishments of a teacher evaluated is not a relaxing thing. There is always a certain height of anxiety that makes the profession until the end of the school year less boring. Personal printers at home will surely be tested to the end, laptop batteries will surely be emptied for a couple of times, good sum of money will be spent for reams of coupon bonds, and cold sleepless nights will surely make the vastly approaching vacation of the teacher a lot more exciting.
There are many factors that makes up the mood of the yearly evaluation to the teacher. Considering whether the school head is a jolly-type person or a poker-facetype person, the school head is surely a game changer in the evaluation process. The completeness of the evidence of the teacher is also a factor. Common to the young teachers and even to those who have been ripened by experience, pieces of evidence are rarely complete upon preparation for the evaluation. All the mess at the teacher’s table will surely be cleaned as the teacher starts piling and categorizing everything that is in there.
Being a teacher is never a boring thing. From Brigada Eskwela before the beginning of the school year to the one-on-one on IPCRF after the end of the school year, the teacher is always on fire. But at the end of the day, IPCRF should never be taken as a burden to the teacher but should be taken as an opportunity to maintain good practices and to improve one’s crafts for the next school year.