MOSQUITO STRATEGY FOR TEACHERS enhancement

Teacher professionalism refers to the set of behaviors, attitudes, and standards that educators are expected to uphold in their profession. It encompasses the ethical practices, dedication to students' well-being, continuous development, and adherence to professional standards that contribute to effective teaching. Here are the key components of teacher professionalism:

### 1. **Commitment to Students and Learning**:
- **Student-centered approach**: Professional teachers are committed to fostering the intellectual, social, and emotional growth of students. They prioritize student well-being and academic success.
- **Equity and inclusion**: They are responsible for creating a classroom environment that values diversity and promotes inclusion, ensuring all students have access to quality education.

### 2. **Subject Expertise and Pedagogical Skills**:
- **Strong subject knowledge**: Teachers must have deep knowledge of the subjects they teach. They are expected to keep up with advancements in their field to provide the most relevant and accurate information to students.
- **Effective teaching strategies**: Professional educators continuously develop and refine their teaching methods to meet the diverse needs of their students, making learning engaging and accessible.

### 3. **Continuous Professional Development**:
- **Lifelong learning**: Professional teachers are dedicated to personal and professional growth. They attend workshops, pursue further education, and stay current with new research and pedagogical practices.
- **Reflective practice**: They regularly assess their teaching methods, reflect on their effectiveness, and make necessary adjustments to improve student outcomes.

### 4. **Ethical Conduct and Integrity**:
- **Adherence to ethical standards**: Teachers must follow ethical guidelines that protect students’ privacy, ensure fairness, and avoid conflicts of interest. Integrity in grading, assessment, and classroom management is paramount.
- **Role modeling**: Teachers serve as role models, displaying honesty, respect, and responsibility in both their professional and personal behavior.

### 5. **Collaboration and Teamwork**:
- **Working with colleagues**: Professional teachers collaborate with fellow educators, administrators, and support staff to enhance student learning and contribute to the school community.
- **Family and community engagement**: Building strong relationships with parents and engaging with the broader community are crucial for creating supportive environments for students.

### 6. **Adaptability and Flexibility**:
- **Adjusting to change**: A professional teacher is open to adopting new teaching techniques, embracing technology, and responding to the changing needs of students and educational systems.
- **Crisis management**: Teachers must be able to manage unexpected challenges, such as remote learning or classroom disruptions.

1. MOSQUITO TEACHING
STRATEGIES FOR TEACHERS
RASHEED, Oluwasegun Kazeem Ph.D
([phone], ([phone] [email protected]

MNAEAP, EMPM, MNIM, MTRCN, MACSN, CT, Dip. Digital Mkt., CEAF, CME,
W10FE, CMIE, FMIE, MAPROCON, AMIBRN, MCIEMA (USA)

Lead Principal Facilitator at HEED – A - DINK CONSULT

2. INTRODUCTION
•HAVE YOUR HEARD BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ IN YOUR
EAR BEFORE? THAT IS A SOUND OF A MOSQUITO
•A mosquito is an insect like its cousin, the
housefly. Mosquito like all insects has six legs, on
its head, the mosquito has two antennae and two
compound eyes, but its mouth sets it apart from
many other insects.
•Just like humans, who have teeth for chewing
food, insects have structures called mouthparts.
These parts are specialized, depending on the
type of insect. They are used for jobs like biting,
chewing and sucking. The mosquito has a
mouthpart called a proboscis. Similar to a straw,
used for sucking.

3. Facts About Mosquito
•The female mosquito is the one that sucks blood!
Her mouthpart is needle-sharp, and pokes
through skin to get blood.

•Some people might believe that mosquitoes feed
only on blood. This is not true. Both male and
female mosquitoes use their proboscis to suck
delicious nectar from flowers. So why do female
mosquitoes also suck blood? It is because blood
has special nutrients that feed the female's eggs.

4. Facts About Mosquito
•With over three thousand different
species, mosquitoes are found almost
everywhere in the world. Mosquitoes
are especially abundant in areas with
marshes and swamps. Why is this?
Females lay their eggs in water that is
stagnant, or still. In fact, mosquitoes
will even lay eggs in a backyard
birdbath or pond.

5. LESSONS FROM MOSQUITOES

6. 1. SET SMARTER OBJECTIVES

•The female mosquitoes have one main objective, and
that is to extract blood which contains protein and
iron necessary to produce their eggs. They do not
dance around your feet and make music in your ears
just for your entertainment. Instead, mosquitoes are
focused on their goal and bite to achieve the
objective set on you at any time.
•Application: As a Teacher, you must set objective(s)
on anything you want to do. The objective(s) set
will guide you toward achieving your aim without
any distractions. Mind you, any adjective set must
not ever be TOO MANY for easier accomplishment.

7. 2. BE PERSISTENT AND PATIENT

•We call it annoyance, but the mosquitoes call it
survival; dead or alive, so to speak, they must get
that nourishing blood from their hosts for
continuation of their species. They will not give
up even if it means waiting at doors or windows
until opening hours just to get in for a quick feed.

Application: Any person longing to be a
competent and admirable Teacher must be
persistent and exercise patience in helping the
learners to appreciate the importance of
knowledge.

8. 3. PROBE BENEATH THE SURFACE
•Mosquitoes have a better chance of finding a host's veins
than many medical practitioners. They have to get to the
source of the blood by injecting their saliva (serves as a
blood thinner to prevent getting clogged by blood clots)
into the host's blood stream. They move round their
proboscis on the host's skin tissue searching for the ideal
place to tap into a blood source.

•Application: Teachers do likewise probing into the minds
of the learners to find answers. While doing that, the
learners will respond willingly to the Teachers initial
thoughts. Teachers dig beneath the skull, and by means of
effective questioning they penetrate through the learners
behavioural consciousness .

9. 4. BE OBSERVANT
•A mosquito utilizes the sense of sight and smell to assess
its host. It flies around devoting 27 of its 72 odour
receptors to sniffing out blood sources to detect chemicals
found in perspiration. This is further enhanced through
visual recognition. This is one of the most important skills
that a researcher can possess. Observing respondents in
their natural environment can provide more compelling
information than when they are taken into a controlled
space.

•Application: Teachers too must be observant about the
learning ability of the learners in order to measure their
level of assimilation and academic progress

10. 5. CHOOSE THE RIGHT TIME
•Like many of us, most mosquitoes cannot manage the heat and then to be at
rest in a cool place during this time. They will fly and feed during dawn and
dusk, although they may still bite if disturbed. Some species are known to fly
and feed during the daytime. Whatever the case, mosquitoes know the right
time to feed as the lives of their future offspring depends on it.

•Application: The success of a leaner depends on the Teacher’s capability and
subject mastery. the research at the right time. The right time is not only
applicable to the availability of the Teacher alone; however many other
factors like appropriateness of right time, right material and methodology are
required to get the attention of the learners.

11. 6. BE ADAPTABLE
•Mosquitoes have been around longer than humans,
and although this is not unique to them it makes
them very adaptable. They survived the flood of
Noah's day and the many human efforts to eradicate
them. Now they are skilled at adapting to any
environment once there is standing water.
•
Application: If Teachers want to be relevant in
teaching profession they must be adaptable in
order to remain relevant to the changing world
outlook.

12. 7. USE APPROPRIATE RESEARCH TOOLS,
TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES
•Sprays, repellents, fog, nets, meshes, zappers, and the list
goes on, these are ways that many have tried to protect
themselves and control mosquitoes. However, this work
only for a short time, and some are more effective than
others, but the plague of the mosquitoes still remain.

•Application: Using the right teaching mechanism is very
important not just to teach but to make teaching
impactful. While a Teacher wants to get the attention of
the learners he/she would have to use the appropriate
teaching mechanism to do so. Teachers must ensure that
the technique selected will not bring any fatigue to the
learners interest .

13. 8. SELECTING THE RIGHT SAMPLE
•Mosquitoes have feeding preferences which, according to
one source, typically include those with type O blood,
persons who are heavy breathers, those with an
abundance of skin bacteria, those with high body heat, and
pregnant women. The host has to have the right mixture of
chemicals in the blood to attract them. However, this
sensitivity to discriminate is compromised when they
experience severe competition for food, hosts who are
armed and ready to defend themselves, or starvation.

•Application: Not everyone student will be sound in
classroom or other learning activities. It is the duty of the
Teacher to diagnose the classroom and know the
strengths of each student who can qualify for a hard task

14. 9. PROVIDE ACTIONABLE RECOMMENDATIONS

•When a mosquito bites it triggers a reaction either immediately or later. A host
will know when he/she is bitten as the skin itches and a rash or a raised bump
can be seen.







•Application Teacher must use insightful tactics that leads to
actionable motivation for students to learn . The overall
dispositions of a Teacher must assist the learners to take action
whether immediately or in the future. If a Teacher does not have
that impact on the learner then; the entire effort of the Teacher
is questionable.

15. 10. CONTRIBUTE POSITIVELY TO GENERATION
•You may wonder, like Mary, the mother of Jesus
when she was approached by Gabriel about her
miraculous conception, how can this be? Well,
this is as a result of the many initiatives to
eradicate or control mosquitoes. The cleaning of
drains and gullies, the proper disposal of waste
and the destruction of breeding sites should have
a major impact on the environmental health.
Therefore, no one can say the mosquitoes are still
breeding into nearby gullies.

•Application: You as a Teacher need to know that
if you teach a child well, you are contributing to
the national growth of your country and if
otherwise you are killing the future generation.

16. 11. NEVER GIVE UP
• What a cliché. Never give up. It is one of those life
tips that we find in almost every life guide. Far from
being useless, Mosquitoes get this idea pretty well.
They can simply pass all night trying to get into our
ear, or trying to suck all of our blood. If a pea-sized
creature can give its maximum effort, why can’t we?
We should at least be able to put up with a
mosquito. We can always go farther, and when it
comes to our dreams and passions, never giving up
is the key to achieving these.

•Application: One of the very important ethics of
teaching is never to give up on a child academic
development. Apply all strategies to ensure that
every learner succeed under your care.

17. 12. DON’T UNDERESTIMATE
•We tend to underestimate things for their
appearance. Size, for example, is one of those
misleading qualities. We might think that because
something or someone is small, it is powerless and
inferior, like an ant or a mosquito. Did you know
that an ant can hold more than 100 times its own
weight? Or that mosquitoes are the deadliest
animals on the planet?

• Application Underestimating learners abilities
because of their learning style is just misleading
and being compounding the issues in the learners
lives. If we want to flow in learners life, we should
acknowledge them for their strengths and not for
their weakness.

18. 13. BE SMART
• Ultimately, there will be times when we can´t beat
the mosquitoes. Sometimes they are just too fast and
somehow too powerful. It is a fight between the
mosquito and our will for sleeping. It is then we have
to learn to accept, which is one of the only ways to
really win over mosquitoes, or to manage life’s
casualties without painful attachments.

•Application: As a Teacher all your body must work
with you while in the midst of learners. Don’t allow
them to know all your strategies and your styles.
Don’t be a robot Teacher.

19. 14. DON’T FEAR TAKING RISKS
•Mosquitoes take this too far, yet they teach us that
taking a risk is worth it. For them, taking a risk is
ultimately necessary, for it is one of their ways to get
their food. Mosquitoes take the risk of fighting with
an animal which is enormously much bigger than
them. They don’t even try too hard to go all in, they
just do it, and even try to get into our brains! How
courageous is that?

•Application Risk-taking is one of the much-feared
things in life. As a committed teacher, take a risk of
investing in a child’s life today and see the outcome
tomorrow.

20. E V A L U A T I O N
Evaluate yourself if
mosquitoes are better
than you in teaching
or you are better than
them in teaching?