hi my dear colleagues!!
I want to state one of my problem about being a teacher:( Our mentor teacher tries to be beneficial for us as possible as she can be. On Wednesday, she gave us some assignments of the students in order to check them. She explained how we should check them; what the criteria we should consider into, which symbols we should use to show the wrong things, etc. All these are fine..While checking the assignments in the evening, I feel like a real teacher who studied at her home also. This is my problem:( I feel the burden on the teachers that their work does not finish in the school, but goes on at their home and in their free times. So I feel a bit depressed and already bored with my future occupation. I really wonder whether you have this kind of negative feelings about being a teacher or not.. Am I the only one who depressed about her future job at the very beginning of it?!!
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My dear friend,
I understand what you mean. I really recommend you to think this as it will be a funny and enjoyable task. I believe that it is not so important as long as you keep your love for your job and your dear creatures in your class:)
The last thing that I can really say is that we are really hardworking candidates of teaching profession so nothing should be threatening.
İlknurcum
do not think that our work will never end! after some time ı believe that it will be something automatic and we will go over all the things in a short time when we are used to it. just leave it to time, ı hope we will see it is not that much bad:)
I think you like your freedom. And it is very natural but it must be done in order to live also. I remember a japaneese phrase "we catch fish and bring them to sell, because we must.If we dont someone will do it" or something like this. The solution to your problem is, in my opinion, to program your life as "job" and "entertainment" and do what you planned at that time. Do NOT think another while doing one.And in the end try to love your job by looking different aspects of it.(it has 3 months of holliday :))) )
i think if u would paid for what u have done, u wouldn t get bored. earning money takes ur boredom and gives you pleasure. here, the important thing is not money, but "earning", which makes something a profession.
ILknur,
It's true for all the occupations, especially the ones which deal with human beings. Just consider what doctors do. Do you think that their job is restricted to hours spent for the patients? This is not the case. They have to search for the articles, new treatments, newly- found side-effects of drugs and many other things as well. You have to improve yourself while doing your job. This is one of necessities of being "professional". As time passes, you find it natural, for you know this is our job :))
I think you are wrong İlknur. Even if you become a housewife, you will have to work all day. Think about the day you will have a baby. You will have to do those jobs and deal with your child at the same time. Life is tough.
Hi İlknur,
Do you think studying for the exams is more enjoyable than grading students' papers? I prefer the second one. It is better to be the one who is assigning grades. When you come back home, you do not need to study for your exams... Think this way,and try to be relaxed...
Dear Ilknur,
Great question! I think teaching is really about being passionate about it and its possibilities and how you can impact in very subtle ways your students'lives. No, the work is not reduced ever! In fact, as years pass by, you can even spend more hours related to your profession because it's not just your classroom, you always need to look for professional development and getting better in what you do. Maybe teaching is for you, maybe not. You need to see if that's what you really want to be doing for the rest of your life or if there's something else that drives you, that really makes you happy and willing to do your best.
What do you see yourself doing in 10 years that would make you happy?
Cheers from a passionate Brazilian educator in Key West, FL.
I do recommend the online conference
http://exeteronline.britishcouncil.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=144
"What Keeps Teachers Going"
Obviously, like any job, it's more difficult at the beginning - but then, in case you don't have time to listen to the whole lecture, here's one of Susan's slides: Constructive approaches to dealing with burnout
Working smarter instead of working harder
Setting specific, realistic goals rather than noble, abstract ones
Doing the same thing differently, while changing what can be changed
Breaking away
Taking things less personally
Accentuating the positive
‘Knowing thyself’
Rest and relaxation techniques
Making a real transition between work and home each day
A life of one’s own
And, when necessary, changing jobs
With best wishes from an English teacher in Grenoble, France
It's a great topic! To my mind, if you think to gain something in your profession, there's no other way than working hard! If you made a research on successful doctors, teachers,lawyers, business people, you would see that success was not just a matter of luck in their careers ;)
thank you all for your precious comments:)) now I am not desperate about my future job beacuse of its workload, on the contrary I feel ready to work hard and to do my best in my future career as a teacher. I can work everywhere even after my work finishes at the school because I am too young and full of energy to work in my dreamy job "a teacher foreign language" ;))
Great to hear that, Ilknur, that through our conversation here you could see the potential that your energy of a young teacher might have in the ones you wish to educate. Please, keep us posted on what's going on in your classes and how you feel about them. It's really interesting to see your perspective.
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