the school.
The School.
What creates the enthusiasm of learning ultimately lies with the teacher.
As the role model of the students, he/she creates the motivation for the students to learn.
Without the passion to do so for the batches and batches of students coming in, he/she will not be able to sit through the torturious regime of facing the same workload each and everyday.
My own experience as a relief teacher have been pretty tormenting.
The past 3 months of teaching absolutely leeched out the possibility of me going into a teaching career. I would say being a teacher is not at all a difficult task. However, to be able to instill a certain thirst for knowledge in students would be one of the hardest to achieve. That is to say being a teacher is easy, but being a good one is going to take a lot of passion.
For me, I have been given a task of teaching few classes with entirely zero preparation. Even to the extent that the HOD was at a loss and what I was supposed to do. Teachers within the school were nonchalent about the curriculum that has to be continued even when they apply for a long term leave.
I believe teachers should have a certain responsibility to the students of the class he/she teaches. Even though I understand that its not easy for 1 person to undertake such a task towards the future of 40 or so students.
Being pushed into a class with just a textbook to teach is not as simple as it seems. It takes great effort to present yourself without any prior preparation of the subject. You have to hide the fear of not being able to produce any results at the end of the lesson and that burns part of your character and adds on to the guilt.
Its not easy to have to go through such a process daily and it creates a toil mentally to such an extent you totally give up on your passion to teach and just survives daily running through materials.
Students starts to give up themselves and you start dropping all hopes on your teaching.
It would be very wrong to put the entire blame upon teachers as it also ultimately brings about the question of who to ensure the fire of passion within teachers continue to burn. Passionate teachers with the enthusiasm to inspire may also burn out after much and much erosion after many years.
The school system itself with the principal as the leader should be responsible for the continuility of this passion. Singapore placed high emphasis on the education but i believe that not all schools are given the same footing to begin with. Neighbourhood schools should be given the extra hand in progressing with the other SAP schools. As they say, we are only as strong as our weakest. The education system in Singapore will never surpass if neighbourhood school's are still lagging behind.
Cant continue now... Gonna start work now =)
Zhiyao
What creates the enthusiasm of learning ultimately lies with the teacher.
As the role model of the students, he/she creates the motivation for the students to learn.
Without the passion to do so for the batches and batches of students coming in, he/she will not be able to sit through the torturious regime of facing the same workload each and everyday.
My own experience as a relief teacher have been pretty tormenting.
The past 3 months of teaching absolutely leeched out the possibility of me going into a teaching career. I would say being a teacher is not at all a difficult task. However, to be able to instill a certain thirst for knowledge in students would be one of the hardest to achieve. That is to say being a teacher is easy, but being a good one is going to take a lot of passion.
For me, I have been given a task of teaching few classes with entirely zero preparation. Even to the extent that the HOD was at a loss and what I was supposed to do. Teachers within the school were nonchalent about the curriculum that has to be continued even when they apply for a long term leave.
I believe teachers should have a certain responsibility to the students of the class he/she teaches. Even though I understand that its not easy for 1 person to undertake such a task towards the future of 40 or so students.
Being pushed into a class with just a textbook to teach is not as simple as it seems. It takes great effort to present yourself without any prior preparation of the subject. You have to hide the fear of not being able to produce any results at the end of the lesson and that burns part of your character and adds on to the guilt.
Its not easy to have to go through such a process daily and it creates a toil mentally to such an extent you totally give up on your passion to teach and just survives daily running through materials.
Students starts to give up themselves and you start dropping all hopes on your teaching.
It would be very wrong to put the entire blame upon teachers as it also ultimately brings about the question of who to ensure the fire of passion within teachers continue to burn. Passionate teachers with the enthusiasm to inspire may also burn out after much and much erosion after many years.
The school system itself with the principal as the leader should be responsible for the continuility of this passion. Singapore placed high emphasis on the education but i believe that not all schools are given the same footing to begin with. Neighbourhood schools should be given the extra hand in progressing with the other SAP schools. As they say, we are only as strong as our weakest. The education system in Singapore will never surpass if neighbourhood school's are still lagging behind.
Cant continue now... Gonna start work now =)
Zhiyao
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