Hi,I'm new in this forum and I wonder why students choose the career of teaching. Sure,it's nice that you have profit from the class(meaning you get money by every schoolboy/schoolgirl which exist in the class) or that you also have holidays but why did you choosed this career? The concept of I love that human pupil or human being didn't exist at my side so I really don't know if this is pure fairytale or not. I had teachers who promised us holidays,good marks and other outside activities but after a few months I realised that was just simple manipulation from them. Unfortunately,most of the teachers that I had were retired and old and had nothing new to bring into our class and they teached from the manual but they weren't pedagogues That happened in school but after school there was highschool and honestly I had 97% of teachers who were scumbags. They didn't teached me what real life means in literature,math,physics,chemistry but they enjoyed their money more and they only joined for making our life miserable. I had 2 teachers who told me that I will never succed at life because I didn't understand their lessons. I gave you an example on how my life went during my school and highschool. I also forgot to mention that my family wasn't the richest and when I wanted to buy something(regardless if it was an electronic kit or something else) I had to beg in front of my parents to buy me a multimeter and some resistors. If it wasn't for my parents help I would beg from the teachers like an old classmate of mine did years ago.
Teached? ... No comment. Teachers who promised holidays and good marks? ... What? Teachers who were retired and old and brought nothing new? Wow. They didn’t “teached” you what real life means in literature, math, physics, etc? ... What are you talking about? “The concept of I love that human pupil or human being didn't exist at my side so I really don't know if this is pure fairytale or not.” ... In English, please. This post is all over the place and I don’t think the teaching profession is for you as you have a bizarre, distorted view of it.
I meant that I didn't have teachers to guide me so I asked you why you choosed this profession. They only wrote in the blackboard words,phrases,numbers that had nothing to do with what we wanted in the real world.They explained us things by writting letters and numbers randomly and they didn't know how to approach us in their world of view(I have the feeling that they didn't lived in the real world when they oppened their books and shouted words with no sense) In their view,money was a principal purpose and they told us to listen to them and nothing more. If we had some ideas we could fill in their emptiness but that's all. I remember once in my math class that I had a retired teacher who never retired that he wrote some formulas in the board but none of them made any sense to use because he wasn't from this period of time. Another example is when our physics teacher began the lesson of Notions of Substance.My classmates looked at the book and had no idea what the terms atoms,molecules mean and the teacher glorified himself by saying that we do not have the capacity of being prepared for this chapter ,because we told him that our chemistry teacher played crosswords in her class with us and made fun of us. That's the story of my highschool life if everyone is interested in reading this. I still want to know if all teachers are the same like in my story so please answer why you joined teaching. For me,teachers were not the guide of my life and I had no idea why I went to highschool.
No offense but I have no idea what teaching means. Could someone from here enlight me what teaching really means? The only examples I can think of are the ones which I gave you and that has nothing to do with love of pupils(or whatever that means). What I'm trying to say is that I didn't discovered a teacher who was close to me and for that I believed that teachers do it for the money and not for love. Another reason why I opened this thread is I have no idea what love of a teacher means . I mean love of the parents is one thing but for the teachers,I really have no idea.
I believe the OP may not be a native English speaker, in which case some meaning may be lost in translation. Try to read to understand between the grammar issues.
I can't figure out why the OP is posting this? Is he/she a teacher? WAnt to be a teacher? Why come to teaching forum to ask these questions? I figured out the poster is not from the US very quickly.
Although this person may be a troll-maybe they are looking for a legitimate answer, so I will try. OP--you obviously had a terrible education experience, and I feel very bad for you. There are teachers like what you speak of, but I wonder if part of it was your view of what you thought your education should be. Should it reflect real life, yes, but it doesn't always. I took Calculus--do I use it? Never. BUt I had to. I took Earth Science. I guess I know a little bit about rocks and weather, but again, not something I really need to function in life. I don't think anyone goes into teaching for the money. If they do, they're definitely not teaching in the US. Do all teachers love children? No, but I think most do at least like them. Why am I a teacher? I love my subject, and I want to share with others, and I know that over the course of my career, I will inspire at least a few people, and I will be a positive influence on a few people. I do enjoy working with kids, but then I work with high school--I couldn't spend all day with elementary kids. I enjoy their thoughts and their feelings, and love watching them figure out the worl they live in, and I love helping them figure it out. Teaching,I truly believe is a calling--at least for those who are good at it.
I also believe English is not your first language, OP. So I will try to read into your words and address some of your questions. First, though, it is very important that you do not judge or presume to know the skills of a teacher just because you have been a student for many years. Even though teachers and students share the same time and space during class, their worlds and experiences are radically different. You see things from your vantage point and do not realize the prep work, the post work and all of the simultaneous decisions the teacher is making during the lesson. second, you cannot speak for all of your classmates. Just because you and maybe a couple of your friends SAY you feel a certain way during class does not mean everyone in that room feels the same. You may not feel as though a lesson is important to YOUR life, but it likely is to multiple students in that room. And in your youth and inexperience, you may not realize how important some lessons are because they simply do not apply AT THAT TIME. It is a shame that you feel as though your time in school was not well spent. We've all had bad teachers or at least teachers that had bad days before. Your physics teacher was correct in that you should know the basics of atomic structure by the time you entered his class. Whether or not his approach was correct, you should have taken the responsibility for your own education and learned it outside of class. It is a relatively quick lesson so the teacher should have taken the time to do it himself, but since he didn't, you should have. To get to your actual question - why do teachers teach? For a variety of reasons, just like any other profession. Is it for the paycheck only? Of course not. Teachers are among the most underpaid professions out there. But of course a paycheck is necessary. We cannot pay our bills unless we have an income. Some teachers chose teaching because they want to make an impact on society. Some because they enjoyed school themselves. Because it is the "family business." Because they enjoy "performing" their lessons. Because they need a creative outlet. Because they want a job with lots of autonomy. Because their college degree didn't lend itself to much else. Because they get their student loans paid off if they teach for a number of years. Because they are retired from a first career and want to try something new. Because they want the same vacation time as their children. For me it is a combination of reasons. I enjoy academia, I wanted to be off when my kids were and I need a creative outlet.
