Recommendation for Education Monitoring Officer II

This is to recommend Mr. Jigme Tshering, EID # 200601187, Master teacher of Baylling HSS for the post of Education Monitoring Officer II which was announced recently through education website. This recommendation is partially based on the interest being expressed by himself and partially after making in-depth study about his capability and suitability for that post.

In the academic year 2012, he had shouldered and executed numerous activities related to the job of monitoring officers. Of the three coordinators, he was Academic Coordinator and was looking after the academic programmes of our school since the completion of his masters degree. In the capacity of Academic Coordinator, he did not leave any stone unturned in academic areas. He had borrowed the ideas and redeveloped lesson plan format for the convenience of our teachers. He was also a person who simplified classroom lesson observation form and criteria for observation for our mentors and mentees. Similarly, he had developed school assessment policy and rubrics to effectively and conveniently carry out class works, home works and project works. Supervision was also carried out sincerely. Under his leadership, academic activities of our school became effective and students were engaged meaningfully. This may be one reason why our school performs very well in academics every year.

He was department head for Chemistry and Biology subjects. At regular interval, he did conduct subject related discussions with his subject teachers. As per his observation and record, a report was made during the monthly review meeting at the end of every month. He worked with unparallel commitment and concern for the well being of students. He wanted our students to excel in academic performance. To that effect, he developed a format for remedial classes and sought help from fellow teachers to apply it on trial basis. All teachers came to learn of its friendly nature and agreed to use it as means to record remedial classes thereafter.

He is, in the true sense of my word, a very resourceful person. He widens his caliber by conducting research works. He conducted research work on his own and took part in sharing his findings at Paro College of Education in one International Forum. He also took part in sharing his research works at Sherubtse College on two separate occasions. He had resourced the process to carry out action research in our school under ‘professional development programme’. This encouraged and motivated our teachers to engage themselves in reflecting about their own works. Subsequently, our English teachers decided to find out the reasons for our students’ poor performance in English and discover new ways to help students. In addition, group of Science teachers also worked on a topic and participated in an international forum at Sherubtse College. I even got appreciation call from Academic Head of Sherubtse College for encouraging teachers to engage in professional development programmes.

Our country being highly susceptible to disasters, we were reminded to remain prepared for any disaster. So, one major programme of our present school system, irrespective of a type of schools, is ‘disaster management programme’. He was head of evacuation team under disaster management profile. Under him, so many mock drills related to earthquake were conducted. There is no guarantee that a disaster may strike only during day hours. So, he insisted on having mock drills even at night for boarding students. He could also provide training to different teachers on the use of first aid kits, handling different materials associated with search and rescue during the times of disasters.      

He was also Rover and Scout master of our school. In addition to training being provided to our students, he made our students take part in regional and national level camps. Along with scouting programme, he could instill in our students a great love and passion for environment and nature. Scout members developed nature corner in our school. He could take our students to Khamdang area, which is about 34 kilometers from Baylling to plant saplings. They planted around 300 saplings in that area with the support from Department of Youth and Sports. Through his own initiative, he too could carry out a study on the pattern of cultivation in our region. On all these accounts, he was nominated for ‘Environment Conservation Award’ on the occasion of Silver Jubilee Celebration of RSPN in 2012.    

Besides, he made numerous contributions to school in the capacity of resource person for professional development programme, school management team, school admission team, school discipline committee and subject teacher. In any capacity, he made tremendous contributions and left clear footprints for successors to tread on securely.

His departure from our school would leave big vacuum in our school. However, respecting his individual aspiration, I wish him good luck!

Yonten Jamtsho