Why Teachers’ Should Develop a Community Plan
Teachers’ Community Development Plan
When specific characteristics bind people together, a successful community is formed, if stakeholders co-operate and work towards a common goal.
It’s everyone’s responsibility to ensure that the community addresses individual members pain points. According to PeerNet BC, community development is to improve the quality of the inhabitants’ lives. It is also to bring mutual benefit and shared responsibility among community members.
A good community plan should ensure improved lifestyle and connect the dots of social, cultural, environmental and economic ethos.
However, community development is a difficult task to pull. This might be as a result of setbacks like the presence of the right people, lack of resources and capacity, lack of set purpose, leadership capacity and change.
In this day where teachers opinions are unrecognised, there is a must for teachers to create a community that’ll echo their voice in policymaking and other educational schemes.
Here are some reasons teachers should create a community development plan.
- It informs credibility
When a community face problems they are incapable of solving, they reach out to the Government, non-governments or private organisations to request help. If the community doesn’t have a unanimous voice, in the form of a body, the Government or private organisations may likely not grant their request.
They aren’t positioned as a corporate entity.
Not standing as one has caused many communities the access to getting life-changing materials, aids and advice that would have changed their story forever.
One voice builds credibility.
Credibility comes with orderliness and dedication which instigates getting things done the right way.
2. It helps you stay on track
No matter how small, a community is big.
Identification, registration, rewards, and public relations are some key points a community would care about. However, it’s easy to confuse things when you don’t prioritise.
Community development plans will help you better place tasks in accordance with the ease of solution and importance. You’d save time, energy and resources in the long run.
3. It improves accountability
People are selected or elected to oversee the activities of the plans made. They keep track of baselines, the actions taken and the changes that occur.
That said, accountability increases the chances that people will do what needs to be done. It’s essential to prevent the money, time, effort investment loss and it’s a guide for process and transparency.
A community without a good development plan will miss out accountability thereby wasting hard contributed resources.
4. It reveals the end goal
Before you put anything at stake, a good community development plan shows the end goal. It portrays evidence of unseen realities.
Sometimes it’s uneasy to understand what’s possible or isn’t possible for a community to achieve, particularly in the situations one task must be achieved before the other could thrive.
Community development plans will help address this and it’ll encourage hard work and toil towards achieving the success of making a better community.
What if we start creating the teachers' community. No matter how small.
So that we can fight for ourselves and project our voice.
Teachers Think.
Originally published at TSI medium page.