teaching as a carrer

Teaching can be a great job, and extremely beneficial and satisfying. The daily life of a teacher is not really all that hard to manage. One of the major daily routines that must be done is of course, teaching the daily objectives to the students so that they may understand them and learn. However, before they teach the day's objective, they have to lay lesson plans out and figure out how they will teach that certain criteria, building the lesson around the text book and the knowledge that the students have already acquired. They must keep in mind the guidelines that have been laid out already by the school district that must be covered and make certain that they mention it or them at the proper time in the lesson.

While the teacher is teaching the objectives for the day, they must also maintain an orderly and well behaved classroom and learning environment. To do this they must have their students trust and respect so they listen, allowing the teacher to be as effective as the possibly can. When misbehavior is going on and disrupting the classroom, they must take immediate action to show the students that misbehavior will not be tolerated and can be put down before anything serious can occur, and also discouraging any further undesirable behavior. The teacher must also be a great role model, to show the students that it is possible to behave, and grownups do it, since children are always striving to be just like them.

After the sometimes chaotic school day is over, the teacher must stay after class and work on additional paperwork required by the district regarding school business, such as taking a role of all the text books that they have in the room and getting their ID numbers to make sure all books are accounted for. Along with that, teachers must also grade homework and/or tests that the children have completed so record and monitor student learning progress. If students perform badly on an exam, the teacher must ask themselves if it was possibly their fault that the students did poorly, and if so, what will they change so they may improve. School work is always expected to be returned, graded, within three to five school days, so persistent diligence is expected when processing assignments.

Sometimes the daily routines of a teacher are somewhat chaotic and stressful, and thus require a teacher to have special skills and qualities to be successful at what they do. One of the most important qualities a teacher should have is enthusiasm. If a teacher is enthusiastic, they make their day, and everyone else's day much more enjoyable and tolerable. A good teacher that is enthusiastic can motivate their students to complete their assignments and try hard to get good grades and behave just by being enthusiastic.

Another good quality to have is leadership. A teacher must take control of their classroom and learning environment and do what is best for all. They hold the lives and future of the children in their hands. If they are not good leaders and able to take control, how will they maintain behavior and gain their students respect? They must maintain authority in the classroom.

Teachers must also be able to think spontaneously. Dozens of things are happening at once in a classroom, and a teacher must be aware of all of them, and be able to respond at a moments' notice to any or all of them effectively. They must be aware of what they are saying and teaching. If they let something inappropriate slip, they are set for failure. If a student asks a question and the teacher does not have an answer, the respect and trust the students may have had for them just went down the drain.

A teacher must also be a good person and morally and ethically sound. Teachers play the major role in deciding how children will be when they get older. If a teacher way happy and always enthusiastic in what they did, than most likely then it will rub off onto the students and they will have the same sharp quality traits as the teacher. However, if the teacher is unhappy with their life and hates kids and mistreats them, then most likely the students will be just like that teacher and have the same problems when they become adults.

One major area of discussion when it comes to education practices is whether or not it is better to have students learn in groups, or individually. If students learn individually, then they are held accountable for their own work and behaviors. Individual work may lead to the ability for an individual to handle more work and stress successfully than if they were to rely on a group of people to be productive. However, if a student were to learn in groups, then it is believed that the students would be able to understand the curriculum more and possibly do better in school. If they work in groups, then they can infer upon their fellow classmates and get help in understanding the curriculum in their own words that they may understand better than if the teacher would explain to them. It is also believed that they would develop a tolerance for different types of people and situations. Also, they would hone their ability to work as a team and be more productive in the work force when teamwork is required, which it eventually always is.